Dec 12, 2016
Document #2; Empathy Project!
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Document #2; Empathy Project!
Document #1; Empathy Project!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g0Ixg1mPQ4)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QJ0ZnNX0E)
Everybody has a story; not everybody shares it.
This is a part of a project to try and promote empathy.
It's hard to remember, especially online, that there are real people on the other side of every conversation you have, every comment you post, and every message you send, and that very often we do not know the things that these other people are going through.
I am in the process of creating a video project as a public service announcement to try and promote people to speak kinder to one another. And I need your help! I would like to do this by getting real stories that people have gone through that have affected them but which they have not shared with friends or peers or followers online.
These stories will be compiled and read in front of a camera, along with a message reminding people that the conversations they have with people every day are influenced by the private stories everybody is living. The message will be something along the lines of...
"Everybody has a story. You never know what people are fighting through, and one thought or comment could make a day or ruin it. Think before you speak, and be kind to each other."
Every story will be presented anonymous. Please come and submit here in a single sentence one thing you are going through that people who only know you online are probably unaware of. Some examples are as follows:
My uncle is battling cancer.
I just had a bad fight with my family.
My brother was in a car accident last week.
Please come send in your confession here. Please keep it to one sentence if you can. Feel free to submit more than once. Please click on anonymous.
Please help raise awareness for this project and come and anonymously share your story!
Thank you!
Book trailer for CHANGERS Book One: Drew. Just finished this novel about walking in someone else's shoes for a year. Or rather, four others' shoes for four years. It's sci-fi, but gives a great look into what it's like to think you know who you are, only to find out you can be someone totally different... and that's all OK. Check out the book trailer, then take a look at the website www.wearechangers.org - related to the book, it explores empathy from lots of different angles. Pretty cool!
Let's add some elements of expression, motion, contraction of menus, expansion of search boxes, re-arrangements of results with smoothness, gradual changes of color around clicks, same space data replacements, icons, emoticons, and any design element that match our capacity to respond to them as people.
My presentation at Internet World: Expressive elements in Findability that match Emotions - Colbenson blog and social media centre - Colbenson
