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Reflecting on BBC Blast - Liverpool and Derry 2006 - and some random thoughts of 6 years in digital creativity

2006-06-17

I've not toured the UK so much since the days that Colin and myself worked on the RNLI's Lifeboats.TV project, we visited eight lifeboat stations (some with young people) making TV for the web..... it was an amazing project, which I have many fond memories....but right now I've e

I've not toured the UK so much since the days that Colin and myself worked on the RNLI's Lifeboats.TV project, we visited eight lifeboat stations (some with young people) making TV for the web..... it was an amazing project, which I have many fond memories....but right now I've embarked on another national tour, this time where young people are the focus.... Lifeboats.TV was very much a project to engage young people in the work of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) by undertaking research into what young people though about this voluntary driven service and provide an interactive web solution to engage young people in the RNLI's work long term.... We took some young people into some lifeboat stations to research what they thought was interesting in the lifeboat service. Unsurprisingly it was the 'volunteers' which were the most interesting factor in their eyes. The young people we worked with always questioned why volunteers would risk their life in the middle of the night, leaving their family to go and fish a stranger out of the sea.....in the middle of a violent storm..... Never before had the RNLI marketed itself on the strength of its volunteer crew's lives....and…

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