Amazing ice cream on the roof

Paul A Young is selling his amazing ice cream on the roof of Rochelle School, at the 2gether08 festival. I went along to investigate and got the full explanation from Paul of how it is put together. Wish I could give you a taste!

More here about Paul from the New York Times

Paul’s ice cream stall was part of an experiment run by Lea Simpson and Rob Hinchcliffe, who I interviewed here. Yesterday standard ice cream was on sale - today we are running a micro experimenting promoting Paul’s to see how small enteprises with excellent products can compete by using digital media..

Wanted: creative volunteers to work with young people

Bold Creative from David Wilcox on Vimeo.

One of the most challenging and interesting sessions at 2gether08 will be “You’re fired, innit” run by Bold Creative. That’s provided you join in. The schedule gives a hint:

A group of young people and a group of older people will develop digital content about what they see as the solutions to youth social problems. Both films will be screened on Day Two.

Here Greg Villalobos, creative director, explains that he will be looking for some creative volunteers tomorrow..

Technology is boring

Technology gets socially interesting, Clay Shirky argues, when it has become technically boring. Now the web and related technologies are ubiquitous enough to have reached this point, we’ve got to work out happens next.

With the Social Innovation Camp we decided to dive right in, get our hands dirty and build some prototypes for web-enabled social innovations - tools that use social technologies to help people create change for themselves, from the grassroots up. At the moment, however, we see a disconnect between what the technology supplies and what society needs. (read more...).

Create your Schedule for the Festival

We now have an extraordinarily interesting schedule of speakers, discussions and creative sessions for the Festival, as you’ll find here >.

You can now personalise your schedule for the two days, and see who else is going to which session. To provide personal scheduling, we are opening up our online networking site over here >. As well as showing the Festival sessions in detail, it allows you to start discussions with others who are attending, link to friends, and tell people that you don’t yet know that you would like to meet up. (read more...).

participate - here’s how

One of the things that is making the development of 2gether so exciting and - if I am honest - challenging is the element of offering up to participants the invitation to develop over 75% of the over 100 hours of the content we are slating at festival. This is seriously testing the potential and (read more...);

2gether - here we come

2gether has been an idea that has been tumbling around in my head for a few years now. How do get together the diverse communities of people I routinely meet in the course of my professional life; (read more...);