Progress!

On Tuesday's class, Jeff, Radek and I (Alyssa) met to discuss the group project. Shelly, you must have left before we met.

PART 1: TRIPTYCH
We were struggling to come up with the slogan and images, and came up in the following.

What we are thinking is comparing the first two panels of the triptych. In one panel we show images of frivolous activities that take 10 minutes. In the next (middle panel) we show activities that make a difference in 10 minutes.

The images can be done in Illustrator, with (non-copyrighted) photographs, etc. That is up to the individual. But we all need to include the same images.

Panel 1 (activities that waste time):
- Watching TV
- Checking your email
- Getting coffee/going through a drive-thru

Panel 2 (activities that make a difference):
- Giving blood
- Write a thank you note
- Buy/give someone coffee (or a drive-thru meal)

Panel 3:
Slogan

We are trying to decide on a slogan. We need the group to help figure this out by next week. Our idea is to have something like:

There are 1440 minutes in a day. Take 10. (or Find 10)?
Your time starts now.
Do it.

...or we could use anyone of Jim's slogan suggestions that tie in.

Jeff, Radek and I felt pretty good about our image ideas, but not so sure about the slogan.

We also also knocked around the idea last week of kindness being like a disease, and using a slogan (Fredda's suggestion) like "Spread it!" or "Catch It!" Which we all agreed would be timely considering swine flu is so in the news.

Shelly or Jim, if you have any great ideas how the "Spread it" slogan/campaign would work with our images and work better than our 10 minutes idea, please share. Otherwise, we just need to decide on the slogan for the 3rd panel and we can just go to work.

PART 2: "CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES"
We talked about a lot of ideas in class as ways to spread our campaign of kindness. At this point, we are not sure if we are really supposed to implement all this ideas, or just talk about them in our presentation. We will need to find out from Fredda.

In the meantime, here are all the ideas of ways we can publicize our kindness campaign:
- Hand out or display "Pass it On" Business cards with ideas to be kind.
- Set up and include a 1-800 number on our poster where callers can hear a recorded list of good deeds that take 10, 20, 30 minutes, etc. (example here - ours would be much nicer looking). :)
- Posters that list small ways to be kind (example here) - that we could put up at schools, businesses, and guerilla style on telephone poles, etc.
- "Take a card" with thank you cards (maybe just hanging on a binder clip or something) for people to write tahnks you.

Those are all the ideas we got, so at least we are getting somewhere. PLEASE post any more brillant ideas, and your vote for the slogan.

Thanks,
Alyssa