The document summarizes an event hosted by www.mediasandbox.co.uk to support collaboration around commissioning projects. The event aimed to help attendees develop better proposals through sharing ideas and knowledge. It included activities like discussing case studies, identifying best practices for projects, and working in groups to develop answers to example commissioning questions. The event outcomes included fostering understanding of the domain and building connections between participants.

1. Welcome www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

2. Welcome and introduction www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

3. Event overview www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08 Event purpose: Produce better ideas for proposals for commissioning Support and encourage collaboration Share ownership of the commissioning scheme Build knowledge around the subject in the region Event outcomes: deeper understanding of the project deeper understanding of the domain better connections between attendeestransparently shared criteriacommunal knowledge sharing and issue resolution as a normproduce X answers in response to the event's questionsprovide the ‘proposers' with some useful answers to their question

4. What we are going to do to until 6 Case study the first Domain description Domain definition: ‘the five golden rules’ Question perusal 3:30: Break Seat selves suitably Case study the second Question workshop Answers reporting back Scheme information and next steps Who’s birthday is it? www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

5. Case study 2008: Happy Packages www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

6. Domain description: quick overview www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

7. Domain definition: the five golden rules 30 mins: Table discussions to identify the five golden rules to consider when starting an ‘innovative multi-platform content’ project. Write and prioritise the rules on the sheets with related one word keywords on post-its 10 mins: A table rep comes to the front to share the table’s top two rules. If similar ones have already come up, choose ones lower down the list. Add the top two rules to the top two rules wall space Add the whole sheet on the wall with the other sheets 10 mins: Everyone gets up and votes on their favourite top two rules Different colours have different values - 4 (red), 3 (green), 2 (yellow), 1 (blue) www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

8. Question perusal www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08 Please circulate and read all the questions. Question askers to stand by their questions if they are here

9. Break www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

10. Seat yourselves Tables are numbered in relation to the question numbers Question asker to be at table Please choose which question you want to work on and go to that table Please look at the badges of the other table people: if you see an unbalance (ie too many of one colour), please move to another table if it looks pretty balanced, settle down and smile at eachother www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

11. Case study 2008: Simon www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

12. Question workshop www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08 Work together to provide an innovative multi-platform answer to the question. To produce: one item to explain the answer on a flip chart sheet (mindmap, picture etc.) one 2-3 minute story about a user experiencing the answer and how that meets the questions’ goals

13. Example of rules sheet www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

14. Answers reporting back One group presents to another group in the different spaces Chose a presenter to present your answer to the other group Chose a filmer to capture the story on video Present your answer to the other group Tell the story of someone experiencing your answer to the camera Both flip charts and video story will be uploaded online for later perusal David Wilcox overview www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

15. Scheme information and next steps www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08

16. Thank you for coming www.mediasandbox.co.uk Launch event, Watershed, 15/12/08 mediasandbox.co.uk youtube.com/mediasandbox flickr.com/groups/mediasandbox vimeo.com/mediasandbox delicious.com/tag/mediasandbox lists.mediasandbox.co.uk/listinfo/discuss TAG for all: ‘mediasandbox’ case study from last year’s findings: http://www.ished.n et/research