Many thanks to those who took part in the Media Sandbox Ideas Lab last Monday. We hope you found it a useful and inspiring afternoon. For those of you who were unable to attend, the afternoon agenda ran as follows:

1. Welcome and introduction
2. Project case study from 2008
3. Domain definition: The Five Golden Rules (for delivering a multi-platform project); what are they?
4. Project case study from 2008
5. Rapid group idea lab sessions at tables: Groups self-organised to provide collaborative answers to the questions posted on the pre-event network.
6. Telling the stories: Groups presented their answers to each other, in the form of a story about a user experience
7. Overview and next steps
8. End and drinks

Material collected from the event is now online in the following places:

The event network is still online at: http://www.pathable.com/events/media-sandbox-2009/
If you want to contact anyone you met at the event, you can use the network to message them:
1. Go to the above link.
2. Find the person you want to message by browsing attendees or using the search box.
3. Click on the attendee. Underneath their profile box you will see an envelope icon and the word message, click this link and follow the onscreen instructions.

Photos are in the Media Sandbox Flickr group pool. Please join the pool and add your own photos.

The Five Golden Rules (for delivering a multi-platform project) have been written up by Ed and are discussed here.

The interviews and videos recorded during the event by Social Reporter David Wilcox can be found at these two locations:
youtube and qik.

And finally, the recordings of the stories made by the groups, can be found on our blip.tv channel:

Question 1 - A new digital music label for the South West.. ?
Question 2 - Can we do something hyper-local?
Question 3 - How can we use data visualisation to explore strategy and capacity in the environmental movement?
Question 4 - What dimensions are valuable to people as they go about their everyday lives? How can those dimensions be sensed and presented?
Question 7 - What would a young entrepreneur sandbox look like?
Question 9 - How would we go about engaging with Bristol people to start re-using public drinking fountains instead of buying YAPB (yet another plastic bottle)?

Our blip.tv channel will be active throughout the whole scheme, so do check back for updates from time to time.

We’re really sorry to report that due to a technology failure, we’re unable to put stories 5 and 6 online, these questions were:

How do we connect with key audiences about voluntary carbon offsetting, via the digital platform? - posed by Sam Burkey from the Converging World
How can we harness the power of social networking and new technologies to provide new and exciting entertainment propositions? - posed by Gavin Henderson, Head of programmes at Presentable Television

If anyone from these groups would like to briefly write up the stories, we’d be happy to share them.