Operations
- ⬜️ UX consultation from a professional and UI improvement
- ⬜️ Help video library page where users can watch videos and learn how to use the system
⬜️ Tutor intro video for CafeTalk
⬜️ Web designer intro video: Elementor screen-share
When Grounded Stream first came as an idea, it was supposed to be the universal brand focusing on essential everyday products, that is toward a zero-waste lifestyle, exclusively community based, sustainable socially and environmentally, and connected to the roots of origin of the makers of the products. The idea of a product that brings value on more than one dimension, and is not "consumed" but it is "prosumed" "transformed"
As went along, and with going deeper into complex system theories and ecosystem mapping and the idea of creating a new system like a future DAO or some sort, the platform was born to become the TOOL presented for the communities to use to be shown higher on the value chain and be directly credited for their work.
Fast forward to today, it was more than once confirmed to us that the communities only work under TWO MODES; 1- For their own good and nothing else and 2- As working for someone else..
The idea of "collaborations" "simbiotic" relationships, or a two way benefit mutual understanding, is too much for them to worry about. This led to many misunderstandings under this limited culture of many years of programing for "survival" and money is our only tribe we care about. (we can understand after many betrayals from the leaders and the banking world towards them)
So the decision today is:
1- We are carrying all production and product design under GROUNDED STREAM TRADEMARK, 2- The platform will be FOR this MARK, showcasing all the communities that come together to have provided for it in resource/service/product 3- ALL catalogues are GROUNDEDSTREAM catalogues. (No whitelabel anymore or merchandise anymore)
⬜️ 3 lessons intros as short videos on youtube unlisted setting
⬜️ Learndash, Stripe, Woocommerce integration with my website
- ⬜️ Finalize designs of exo-"roll-cage" needed for structural integrity upon vehicle rotation.
- ⬜️ Finalize assembly of windows
⬜️ Campaign kick off on UpWork (testing how much time spent is to deliver each service, how much they are willing to pay, how satisfied are the clients)
⬜️ Sample proposal to test "Brainchildren" campaign
⬜️ Update my website based on "Brainchildren" proposition: leave only web tutor, business coach, web design services with links to other projects for other services (like 2kokono for workshops and kokono.ie for brand services)
Telegram channel or Newsletter? Do people read emails these days? Thing is, I don't want to be on social media because of the cost (time, distractions). But how to keep in touch with my type of people then?
⬜️ Review, categorise and publish 237 draft blogs
⬜️ Find a plugin that plays audios as Elementor Widget
⬜️ Add audios across website to work as a real human voice behind the brand
⬜️ Course outline
⬜️ Website design with Elementor & LearnDash from scratch with UX - start a project and a new window opens!
⬜️ Website wireframe on Miro or Figma (to learn)
⬜️ Review conceptual files - audios - and include concepts into website
⬜️ Website concept moodboard/sketch ("Tree" (Roots/Fruits) concept where a burning worm is "doing the EASY work")
☑️ Logo
☑️ Brand name - decide which domain to use
I am currently in design phase. I am looking for an efficient approach to structured joins and scanning matching keys of collections efficiently.
⬜️ How to make a black logo I have into a Orange/Red Logo with a texture of tiny spirals as in this photo, to express the metaphor of a "worm burning creativity from within"?
past mission task un-started goal : wiki
available now: المعرفة ويكي
adgusted goal: to use المعرفة ويكي as The Wiki...
Need: to know: How To Do That - Universal Manual this takes us to
the INTER-Factor
building the TREE
discovering the TREE
finding your way, finding your fractal-interface-fraction-position that indicates capture of pendulum direction and impact thereof.
hashtag>musing the edea
~is edea he new eden, as in the dual heart of etopia? (utopia being 3d and etopia being multi-d)~
⬜️ Document: Feedback from 5 tests summarised
⬜️ Messages to 5 people asking them to come and test a creative learning experience via a video call and provide me with feedback
⬜️ List of 5 potential testers
⬜️ Learning experience description - what I want to test
Products (time of materialising over a reachable layer to obtain with relevant price exchange for it.)
How Are Products born? and how can they affect us if it became unhealthily born in possible external distortions. ?
Products DIMensions (a continues thought on the 5-In 5-Out proposed containers of all.
Product Name Description Media Product type category collections Attributes Variants Price
Above is what Saleor organises it:
*This post is about my process of determining the parameters, and may be deleted after conclusion. *
...
The Templates:
The STAGES. from knock-knock to bye-bye. (a to z)
Categories:
classified with "guilds" / "unions" Identified by Material .
### Product Name الوصف Description وصف المنتج الكاتالوج أنواع سعر Media Attributes //الصفة/ Product type نوع Variants الصنف/ category الفئة collections Price صنف، صفة، مواصفة، نوع، شكل
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☑️ Font update: Rubik for body instead of Quicksand to improve blog readability
☑️ Redesigned a blog archive with categories as sections and specific post-by-category loading in each section; each post as a card with title only to resemble a look of paper sticky notes
☑️ Single blog post template updates (header, body, responsive, breadcrumbs)
☑️ Editing the design of 87 blogs and changing settings from Draft to Published
☑️ After reviewing my blog, I realised my value proposition, so updated a homepage with my process and tools
☑️ Gallery next to Reviews
☑️ Started a facilitator page
☑️ Made about page
☑️ Design adjustments: no border radius for buttons, contact form fields and photos; colors (selected text as yellow), simpler footer, newsletter forms adjustments
☑️ Translations update for homepage
☑️ Speed optimisation
I made a 17-min video about setting up Odoo on your own server. I'll later continue by adding more info, how to very cheaply run multiple websites on one database, and run multiple websites on multiple databases on that single server (which you could also run at home).
☑️ I created a Google My Business profile (for local SEO)
☑️ Sukūriau Google My Business profilį (dėl vietinio SEO)
Create a comprehensive FAQ for groundedstream.com.
(@mindey I am using to this website to stream my conciousness, I will get better with time for a solidified communication in its right place, Feel free to remind me of any rules. thx) this project is dates to 2 days only, after it, will grow as progressed
Why does it exist:
- we save time by anticipating the events and questions/demands
- It helps answer high frequency information requests,
- The main entities in this platform:
- The buyer (PC*) entity 1 peer consumers (demand)
- The community (PP*) entity 2 peer producers (producing)
- The stakeholder (no-direct communication with other entities)
- Grounded stream team (Part of the eco-system shapers team engagement: constant with big rest times)
- The Designers [BRANDS] (PPA) entity 3: Peer Partners
This FAQ should address mainly USERS?
I think only main users, so the PP, PC, and PPA
CORE RELATIONSHIP:
PC <-> PP secondary relationship: PPA <.> PP They are both PRODUCERS.
Third being the PPA <-.-> PC
The role that is an output of the above dynamics: - The crafts trainer (by-product)
Examples of Personas:(keep suggesting in comments) - individual designer, farmer, artist, community heads, grafiti artist, calligraphy artist, beauty products designer, etc. ....
FAQs to ask
FAQ-1 what we are
FAQ-2 Addressing the main Entity, the core entity is ---> PProducer- These are the comunities
PP would ask:
- what is this?
- why am i here?
- what do you want from me?
- how can I be part of this?
- can I make money participating?
- how can I make money?
- If I have a design and I'd like to produce it, will you help me?
- What else can you help me with?
- What do I pay? Whats the bait?
- Anything else? write us:
PC would ask:
- what is this
- why am i here
- how can I beenfit
- How much?
- How can I share my own requests if I dont' find a ready solutions?
+PPA would ask*
- How can I find communities to work with me?
- how to connect with them?
- how can you help me produce more?
- do you offer promotions for designers or artists? how?
- How can I use this platform to my advantage?
other question?
I think the above is enough... Or what would a stakeholder ask? or the by-trainer ask as someone who could benefit from this ecosystem?
stakeholder: * How can I help? * How can I know about specific communities? * How can I share feedback?
The BP (I made up this entity: By-Peer (for now) * I teach videos and create many things, how can I be involved? (direct them to the media team, they can shoot a video in our space and we will promote it for them.
NEED WIDGET TO PLAY RADIO ON THE WEBSITE FOR LAUNCH EVENT
HOW TO CREATE PODCAST LIVE
WHAT ARE THE TOOLS...
About page based on 3 interests/backgrounds: Living Systems, Startups, Art
☑️ I made and polished the English version of the website (e.g. Header, buttons, colors, etc.)
☑️ I downloaded WordPress in Lithuanian with the plugins I need (Elementor, Yoast, etc.)
☑️ I created a "header" with Elementor with the slogan "housewarming"
☑️ Editing fonts, colors, etc. stylistics "Site Settings"
☑️ Design of magazine archives and individual entries with sample text and images
☑️ reCAPTCHA V3 and email
☑️ Įsirašiau WordPress lietuvių kalba su man reikiamais įskiepiais (Elementor, Yoast, etc.)
☑️ Sukūriau "header" su Elementor su reklaminiu šūkiu "namisėdos kuria"
☑️ Šriftų, spalvų redagavimas ir kt. stilistikos "Site Settings"
☑️ Žurnalo archyvo bei individualių įrašų dizainas su pavyzdiniu tekstu ir paveikslėliais
☑️ reCAPTCHA V3 ir el.paštas
☑️ New fonts: Poppins and Quicksand
☑️ New colours: brownish background, purple shades
☑️ New blog archive and single blog layout with newsletter forms and recaptcha v3 designed with Elementor
☑️ Design decisions: header, footer, portfolio gallery, contact form, buttons, menu pointer, etc.
☑️ New pages: homepage (in EN and LT), web design (EN)
☑️ Calendly setup and integration
⬜️ update SEO in Yoast
⬜️ add info to websites pages about ui/ux and web content strategy as part of website design service
⬜️ add website pages on art direction, illustration
⬜️ add website pages on prototyping, design sprints
⬜️ update url in local listings
⬜️ for a website to work on https://www. do I need to add this version of website to GA? or setup some redirect from https:// to www?
⬜️ anything else I need to do re SEO?
⬜️ how to change an email from which kokono.ie sends a contact form confirmation from ruta@ to hello@kokono.ie, if only ruta@ is on google workspace? hello@ is only an alias...
⬜️ how to make so that emails sent to hello@ go to both, ruta@ and malu@, if hello@ is only an alias on google workspace? can this be set on siteground? or is siteground irrelevant because now all mail is managed by google workspace?
☑️ Merged Miro boards with old (2kokono) and new (ogiziu) brand descriptions
☑️ Tidied our Miro board for ease of use (to have a flow of what the next steps are)
I was listening to Malu about how last week she was reviewing interviews with personas and mapping insights in Excel
To me, it feels they need “time for themselves”, self-knowledge, to explore multiple identities, learn to experiment and play
Malu wants to create emotional release experiences thru nature connection
Malu next steps: finish interview analysis, April-May-June content plan for Eco Anxiety
Listening to Ruta about a rebrand and next steps (merging miro, wireframes)
☑️ Sketched a value proposition with key benefits for the customer
☑️ Planning
☑️ Mapped customer problems and desired change (feelings, habits, skills)
☑️ Narrowed down to a specific problem and solution
☑️ Identified 4 personas
☑️ Started mapping customer journeys
☑️ Chosen a Spartan font as a Primary Font
☑️ Looked up several Google Fonts that works for both, Lithuanian and English (as in a link)
☑️ Choosen brand colors of Purple and Green
☑️ Explored shades of purple, green, pink, orange as in a palette attached
☑️ Registered ogiziu.com and ogiziu.lt
☑️ Brainstormed other names that express an a-ha or awe moment like "oh-uh-ah.com", "eiei.lt", "ogi-ziu.com", "oziu.com", "obaziu", ...
☑️ I walked in the forest and spent time thinking if the new name is the right one.
I imagine a new brand name to be used in conversations between friends to mark a social change moment, when friends are creating instead of consuming; also creating slowly instead of rushing to burnout:
-"What's up?"
-"ogiziu, I slow down, I rest, I create"
More files to be uploaded to Google Drive...
☑️ I discovered a new brand name "ogiziu" which in lithuanian is in fact a sentence "ogi, žiū" that means a surprise moment, a micro observation moment when creative thought enters the mind, such micro moments make a life easier
☑️ I registered an Instagram account
☑️ Preparing for wireframing: Organising my thoughts on Miro into a Moodboard
Listening to Ruta's progress and next steps:
"Updates from last week on Miro: name and logo meaning, ...
Course Outline: The steps on Miro on how she creates her course now.
Ideas:
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Let's create a diary! with Templates for doing our courses (how to create brands, wireframes, etc).
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Brand Universes with creatures living on websites and designing websites (wireframes) as comics!
Persona: For people worldwide wanting to quit their jobs and have their own business OR a past self (marketer) who wants to start a biz while learning to connect with the heart and learning web design.
Next steps: Website concept as comics, wireframes, course outline (with backgrounds/outfits)."
Ruta reviewing Malu's course intro video and asking Malu who is the persona and what's their problem with the design; listening to Malu's course ideas and next steps. Here's the synthesis:
"Plan:
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Launch a project-based course “Earth Brief” by end of May.
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Rejoin Instagram and start sharing real Earth Briefs once a week from April. Design challenge on social media called “The Earth Brief” for designers to create real designs (logo, etc) as if Earth is the client and share designs publicly on Instagram with a hashtag and tag IC, each week is a specific topic related to Earth needs.
Persona: Visual design professional wanting for a personal change and to train themselves to design for Earth as a client.
Next steps:
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Script and chapters/outline for course based on Persona conversations from last year.
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(Then record new video with funky background/clothes the week after)."
☑️ I recorded 2 lessons:
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one about Business Ideas from Zero (Heart + World Needs)
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one about how easy it is to update a website with Elementor
☑️ I realised that: I want to have a structure for background colors and outfit colours before I record. Background for each lesson should match a mood and a stage in a Customer Journey.
☑️ Made a creative landing page with Elementor for a new product