Jul

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Free ice-cream, can you help?

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Check out the Ice-cream man’s quest to give out free ice-cream and see how you can help!

Jul

18

Entrepreneurs with the nerve to take a risk - Get inspired!

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Date: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008.Duration: 3 hours Event Type: Speaker Event

Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks and trying something new!

For our first Striding Out event in Liverpool, we have asked as local young entrepreneur to tell us his story about riding the highs and lows of taking business risks. Our guest speaker is Mark Bowness, creator and founder behind the creative consultancy www.peoplepassionplanet.com. Mark is a serial innovator, and pulls together teams and partners in order to execute his ideas.

In 2006 Mark created a project called Tribewanted which brought people together online in order to develop an eco-island in Fiji. Tribewanted became a 5 part prime time BBC2 programme called ‘Paradise or Bust’.

It was due to Tribewanted that Mark was awarded a Channel 4 4Talent Award, which Channel 4 labeling him a ‘future creative hero’. Tribewanted recently beat MySpace to win ‘Best Social Network’ in the Broadcast Digital Media Awards.

Mark has now gone on to launch www.thenerve.tv the World’s first crowd sourced TV production company which has resulted in him developing his ideas with TV production companies and TV Channels across the U.K.

Mark was born on the Wirral and now lives in Liverpool City Centre, despite traveling across the UK he loves his home city. In his spare time Mark can be found at his local gym, local gig venues and enjoying the sites and sounds of Liverpool.

The event is being held in the upstairs bar, at Baa Baa, 43 - 45 Fleet Street, Liverpool. L1 4AN.

For further information please head over to: Striding Out Liverpool.   

Jul

18

Mark Bowness asked to consult with 02!

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Tribewanted was a community based project, using the power of multimedia to benefit a community. It was because of Tribewanted and my ongoing involvement with multi-media and community that I was asked to attend a consultancy evening for 02 on this very subject. 

On Thursday 10th July I headed over to Manchester, myself and a bunch of media professionals and those working in communities were hand selected to a consultancy for 02 and their It’s your community project. This was an intense, but fun evening of a number of sessions as we brainstormed out thoughts on what community is, why people are involved in community projects and why people are not. We then discussed the role that 02 could play in using mobile ‘phone and media applications in order to benefit community projects.

This was a fantastic night, I really enjoyed it and it is great to be involved in seeing how major corporations want to get involved in local community projects in a very real and grassroots way.

It will be great to see how 02 put the results of the consultation into operation!