Another idea for what we might still need in Birmingham. Call it No.11 on the list. Because, hey, there’s always a No.11 in Birmingham…
11. An open online list of professional creatives, based in and around the city, who are willing to consider requests from genuine non-profits for free or low-cost “for the public good” work.
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04 Oct 2008 at 21:14
[...] on the back of various lists, D’log adds a suggestion to the d’logue by going to 11 on a list of ten things he’d like to see [...]
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04 Oct 2008 at 21:51
My reply to dp’s comment (above)…
The crowdsourcing idea is a good one, but I’m thinking that non-profits with time-sensitive and mission-critical needs (and perhaps not much project-management skill) may prefer to deal only with one firm, and have them handle any outsourcing that might be required.
Although certainly there might be an online crowdsourcing of ideas to solve a particular _problem_. Thus the non-profit might simply pitch _the problem_, rather than the sort of solution they had in mind for it. And out of that group solution-generation process might come some viable and comfortable working collaborations.
From the perspective of a creative firm, though, I was thinking more of the sort of difficult/challenging project that might get them a good spread of publicity in the local press and trade press, rather than small-scale ‘behind the scenes’ things like setting up websites and weblogs, which is more within the scope of the local volunteer bureaus.