collaboration

Stop Press reports on Looksy, a global collaborative film project that has kicked off with the first entries at: http://www.youtube.com/looksygenc

"Auckland film-maker and critic Lewis Bostock is aiming big by thinking small: he’s trying to create the largest collaborative film ever made. His project, Looksy.org, aims to piece together a documentary from user-generated short films that represent Generation C, “the generation of digital creatives who are remaking the way we buy, sell and, most importantly, communicate” around the world. Bostock calls it “an exercise in digital ethnography.”

Helen Baxter MD of Mohawk Media is on the panel of judges including the head of New Business at MTV Asia, Waitakere City mayor Bob Harvey, Marc Swadel (award winner at Cannes), Mitch Olson (Digital Worlds), and Debbie Mayo Smith.

Join in the largest collaborative film ever made at: http://looksy.org

With the costs of petrol rising fast and companies feeling the squeeze, the home based workspace is becoming an appealing choice. Changing attitudes have been forced by a smaller pool of skilled workers to draw on and the need to look outside one's own city region or country for experienced people.

Now that the internet is a core part of every 21st Century company, organisations relying on face to face communications may not be able to afford that luxury for much longer. Large central studios or expensive offices spaces can be replaced with distributed, networked and often home-based teams. Which is a great step toward the fabled perfect work/life balance that has been promised since the birth of the computer age.

I have been teleworking internationally for over ten years, having been an online editor, community manager, columnist, and now IPTV producer & animatrix. One thing I have learnt from riding out the first dotcom wave is to stay small, efficient and flexible, by using creative workflows & real time collaboration tools.

Read more on Real-time Collaboration at the Big Idea, the home of NZ's Creative Community.