Archive for December 29th, 2011|Daily archive page
Links for Hanna
The Big Fish Fight – a multiplatform campaign which is changing EU policy and legislation (fisheries) and has improved supermarket policy/practice, backed by nearly 3/4 Million supporters – includes iPhone app (listed in Top 5 Lifestyle apps of 2011 by Apple)
The Great British Property Scandal – a transmedia campaign to highlight the revitalisation of long-term empty homes as a partial solution to Britain’s housing crisis, with over 100,000 supporters in its first week – includes an Empty Homes Spotter iPhone app
4Thought.tv – Moral, ethical spiritual and religious questions explored 365 days a year
My Healthchecker - an aggregation of health self-tests which gather and use data in an engaging way
The Sexperience 1000 – an attempt to liven up data visualisation
Embarrassing Bodies: Live - a live switchover show, the first to switch from main TV channel to the web instead of a multichannel digital channel – linked to the main Embarrassing Bodies site which is a hugely popular health site (the main rival and referrer to the official National Health Service site)
Live from the Clinic – the primetime show which span off of the last item – saved the National Health Service over £400,000 to date through innovative video-based symptom checkers
Sexperience – a sex education site driven by peer-to-peer learning, focused on experience as opposed to theory or opinion
Beauty & the Beast – drove research into facial disfigurement and appearance-related conditions, delivering over 60,000 survey returns to the academic institution spearheading this research in the UK
Model Agency – a video player experiment to realise the value of material on the cutting room floor (for fixed rig shows in particular)
New Year Revolution – helping people make lasting positive change in their life with the help of collective willpower
Landshare – addressing the social issue of long/closed allotment waiting lists/shortage of land for individuals to grow their won food on by providing an infrastructure to connect small pieces of private land (eg back gardens) with voluntary labour with the resultant produce shared between grower and land-owner
Surgery Live – first integration of Twitter and TV on UK TV
Alone In The Wild – release of documentary rushes/dailies in advance of transmission of a primetime documentary series
Quotables – reflecting contemporary culture through quotations, creating an outstanding quotations reference site and collecting utility in the process
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