WE'RE HIRING!!!
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted
In One Minute
Would you capture it
Or just let it slip?
It’s your time to shine…
Apply for this fun-filled job and help build an already thriving community at One Minute Briefs!!
About the role:
I am looking for someone who reflects the values of OMB which include supporting creativity, inclusivity, community and of course, FUN!!
Whatever level of experience you are at from grad to senior, I’d like you to apply if this seems like the perfect job for you. It also doesn’t matter where in the world you are. Anyone can apply.
Experience with creative programs and social media feeds is preferred but not essential.
These things can be learnt. But enthusiasm and positivity cannot.
And, that’s the main thing we’re looking for.
Job responsibilities would include:
Developing our social media strategy & increase brand awareness/engagement across all social channels including FB, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
Develop and build commercial brand partnerships & relationships with charities.
Plan and create content around key dates and keep an eye on trending topics.
Create engaging blog posts that inspire the OMBLES & involve them for guest posts.
Help with the organisation of OMB events on and offline.
Creation of basic design/video assets to be used on various channels.
Helping to run OMB on a week-daily basis. Primarily on Twitter with supporting content across all channels.
Growing the amazing OMBLE community across the world.
You can apply for the role by sending your CV, along with a paragraph or two (or any other creative way) to share why you think you’d be a great candidate to join the OMB team, to interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk
It only takes a minute…
Application Deadline: 25/05/2020
Salary in-line with experience level. Job open to all levels.
As well as this, we are looking for new members to be on the OMBoard, where you will be involved in group discussions with fellow OMBassadors and consulted about upcoming briefs and collaborations. We are also looking for contributors to @AgencyQuotes.
Please get in touch if you’d like to get involved in either of these too!
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage people to take the #KindnessChallenge for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek in support of @MentalHealthUK
Today we’re supporting #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek by taking the #KindnessChallenge and encouraging all the OMBLES to do the same. We’d love to see the creative ways you are taking part and quick-fire posters to promote the challenge to encourage even more people to get involved!!
Maybe your submissions will be inspired by the challenges and become acts of kindness aimed at your fellow OMBLES!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @MentalHealthUK with the hashtags #KindnessChallenge and #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek.
Nominate others to take part in the Kindness Challenge by tagging them too!
Mental Health Awareness Week
18th-24th May 2020
The theme for Mental Health Awareness Week in 2020 is kindness. Something which is now more important than ever with the current situation. To mark the week, join us by taking part in the Kindness Challenge!
We’ve all had to make huge changes to our daily lives because of Covid-19. While everyone is following government recommendations around social distancing, we still have the ability to look out for each other.
Now more than ever, small acts of kindness can go a long way in helping everyone cope with our current reality. Research shows that kindness can reduce levels of stress and anxiety (Curry et al. 2018), increase happiness and self-esteem (Tashjiian, 2018) and that in only one week, counting one’s own acts of kindness can improve happiness (Otake, 2006).
Therefore, for Mental Health Awareness Week (18th – 24th May 2020) we want you to join us in our bingo-style Kindness Challenge! We’ve come up with small tasks that you can carry out by yourself from home to show kindness to others and yourself.
Here’s how you can take part:
Save the kindness bingo grid to your mobile or computer.
Highlight each task as you complete it (by editing the image on your social media app or on an editing tool like Paint)
Share it on social media alongside pictures of you completing the tasks to show others how they can spread kindness too!
Tag Mental Health UK using @mhealthuk on Instagram and Facebook or @mentalhealthuk on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Nominate your friends to take part in the Kindness Challenge by tagging them too!
Use #KindnessChallenge and #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek.
Find out more here: https://mentalhealth-uk.org/get-involved/mental-health-awareness-week/
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote that we're recruiting for a role at OMB with the first-ever #OMBJOB!!!
After hitting 25,000 followers on Twitter yesterday, we are running a special OMB today and I hope all of you will get involved and share with family, colleagues and friends.
I have run One Minute Briefs now for a number of years on my own, which tends to come as a shock to a lot of people as they thing there is a team behind the scenes. It has been quite intense at times, especially when you are receiving over 300 submissions in a day, but it’s a good problem to have!!
We are now regularly trending on Twitter (including yesterday for #WashingUpLiquid), collaborating with worldwide organisations, working with global brands and making a difference in people’s lives as creatives get involved internationally.
And, with OMB continuing to grow as a thriving creative community, now is the time to take on a member of staff to ensure that the progression continues.
We want to be doing more brand & cause collaborations, more workshops, more talks, more books, more events on and offline and, above all, we want more OMBLES to improve their creative thinking, confidence, portfolios and gain contacts within the industry. Some of which, will become life-long friends.
So… that’s where the OMBLES come in.
How would you advertise the first ever job at One Minute Briefs to the OMBLES and beyond?
Maybe you’d like the job yourself? What would the job title be? Head OMBLE? Lead OMBassador? Maybe that’s part of your idea?
Tweet your ideas to @OneMinuteBriefs with the hashtag #OMBJOB
Please also include the link to today’s brief/job description in your tweets: bankofcreativity.co.uk/blog/ombjob
Prize: A copy of our upcoming 4th OMBook.
About the role:
I am looking for someone who reflects the values of OMB which include supporting creativity, inclusivity, community and of course, FUN!!
Whatever level of experience you are at from grad to senior, I’d like you to apply if this seems like the perfect job for you. It also doesn’t matter where in the world you are. Anyone can apply.
Experience with creative programs and social media feeds is preferred but not essential.
These things can be learnt. But enthusiasm and positivity cannot.
And, that’s the main thing we’re looking for.
Job responsibilities would include:
Developing our social media strategy & increase brand awareness/engagement across all social channels including FB, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
Develop and build commercial brand partnerships & relationships with charities.
Plan and create content around key dates and keep an eye on trending topics.
Create engaging blog posts that inspire the OMBLES & involve them for guest posts.
Help with the organisation of OMB events on and offline.
Creation of basic design/video assets to be used on various channels.
Helping to run OMB on a week-daily basis. Primarily on Twitter with supporting content across all channels.
Growing the amazing OMBLE community across the world.
You can apply for the role by sending your CV, along with a paragraph or two (or any other creative way) to share why you think you’d be a great candidate to join the OMB team, to interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk
Application Deadline: 22/05/2020
Salary in-line with experience level. Job open to all levels.
As well as this, we are looking for new members to be on the OMBoard, where you will be involved in group discussions with fellow OMBassadors and consulted about upcoming briefs and collaborations. We are also looking for contributors to @AgencyQuotes.
Please get in touch if you’d like to get involved in either of these too!
Thanks to you all for your continued support.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to congratulate 10-year-old double amputee @CattMaisie on completing a (home-based) marathon and raising over £10k for @LimbPower! #aMAISIEing
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters to congratulate 10-year-old double amputee @CattMaisie on completing a (home-based) marathon and raising over £10k for @LimbPower! #aMAISIEing
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @CattMaisie and @LimbPower
Use the hashtag #aMASIEing & please include the donation link in your tweets https://bit.ly/35PjsH8
You can also share on Insta if you wish
Prize: The winner will receive a personalised video message from Maisie and the family.
About:
10-year-old Maisie Catt recently completed a marathon in her Yorkshire garden. But what makes this physical challenge amazing, is that this young lady lost both her legs to meningitis and septicaemia when she was just a baby.
Inspired by the work of fellow Yorkshireman Captain Tom Moore, Maisie challenged herself to walk 2.6 miles per day, in her garden or on a treadmill, over the course of 10 days, in a bid to raise £260 for LimbPower.
Having initially set her sights on raising a modest £260, when our friends at Scriba PR heard about Maisie’s challenge, they sprang into action and got in touch with the UK media to help spread the word…and she’s had quite the response.
To date, Maisie has appeared in the local newspaper, been interviewed by The Yorkshire Post and appeared on ITV, BBC and Sky News. She’s also received mentions on Twitter from MPs, authors and even Captain Tom himself!
But the best part? She smashed her original fundraising target and has now raised over £10,000 – and counting. Buoyed by the response, she’s going to continue walking until the donations cease.
Knowing what a superb bunch of OMBLES we have, we’d like to use the power of our community to congratulate Maisie on everything she’s achieved so far and encourage her to keep up the fantastic work.. You can share fun quickfire ideas, posters, designs, illustrations, sketches, scribbles or whatever else that comes to mind.
Until this brief goes live, Maisie has absolutely no idea we have this planned for her.
If you want to read more about Maisie’s story, or donate, you can visit her JustGiving page here.
See Maisie finishing her marathon below:
‘Image credits: The Yorkshire Post’
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage people to listen, be inspired and receive mentorship with the #40MinuteMentor during lockdown.
Today we’ll be taking 1 minute…to get creative about 40!
When it comes to mentorship… you need a little more time and today we’ve got a great collab with JBM who are sharing inspiration 40 minutes at a time.
Excited to see how the OMBLES take on this brief. You can share fun quickfire ideas, posters, designs, illustrations, sketch, scribbles or whatever else that comes to mind.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @JBM_Consulting with the hashtag #40MinuteMentor
You can also share on Insta @OneMinuteBriefs and @40MinuteMentor if you wish.
Prize: £150 cash prize for today’s winner.
The Campaign
JBM have joined forces with One Minute Briefs to promote the power of mentorship during this challenging time, through their podcast 40 Minute Mentor. We will be welcoming OMB Founder Nick Entwistle on to the podcast at some point soon too!
We want YOU - creatives, designers, illustrators, quick thinkers - to help JBM_Consulting promote and encourage people to subscribe and listen to our podcast @40minutementor, to help provide some inspiration and mentorship during lockdown.
As part of this, we’d love to see and hear about your experience of mentoring and the impact it’s had on your life and career.
About 40 Minute Mentor
At JBM we are big believers in the power of mentorship, so much so that we created a podcast to focus on it!
The 40 Minute Mentor is a series of informal and candid interviews with Entrepreneurs and Leaders who share their career stories, offer advice for job seekers and provide general mentorship to our listeners.
Previous guests have included CEO’s, Entrepreneurs (including Sustainability entrepreneur Kresse Wessling MBE of Elvis & Kresse and Tech for Good entrepreneur Alex Stephany, CEO of Beam) and leaders from other walks of life including an ex-TopGun pilot and a former international Footballer (Stiliyan Petrov).
40 Minute Mentor aims to help those in need of mentorship and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs to go for it!
About #JBM
Founded in 2012, JBM is a values driven recruitment firm that places executive talent and future leaders into disruptive, fast growing companies.
We’re on a mission to disrupt the traditionally transactional recruitment model, by replacing it with an authentic, human and invested approach.
Recruitment isn't a numbers game. It's all about relationships. And that’s why we have grown exclusively through word of mouth. So whether you’re a client or candidate, when you work with JBM you can expect the highest levels of service and honest, insightful career advice.
Social media handles / links:
Twitter - @JBM_Consulting - https://twitter.com/JBM_Consulting
LinkedIn – JBM - https://www.linkedin.com/company/jbm-consulting-ltd/
Instagram - @jbm_uk - https://www.instagram.com/jbm_uk/
Instagram - @40minutementor - https://www.instagram.com/40minutementor/
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters that encourage the public to use the NHS to get care when they need it. #NHSisOpen @LoveYourNHS
The NHS has launched a major new drive to persuade the public to seek the urgent care and treatment they need.
And we want the OMBLES to step in and help get that message out there to as many people as possible in their typically brilliant creative way using sketches, scribbles, headlines, designs and more!!
Who knows… your message might just save someone’s life!!
Tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs and @LoveYourNHS with the hashtag #NHSisOpen
About:
NHS Urges the Public To Get Care When They Need It
NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens warned that delays in getting treatment due to coronavirus fears pose a long term risk to people’s health.
The plea comes alongside new findings that four in ten people are too concerned about being a burden on the NHS to seek help from their GP.
Seeking medical help is one of the four reasons that people can safely leave home, in line with government guidance.
And Sir Simon stressed that the NHS is still there for patients without coronavirus who need urgent and emergency services for stroke, heart attack, and other killer conditions.
While NHS staff have worked hard to put in place measures allowing people to access care safely – such as splitting services into Covid and non-Covid – attendances at Accident and Emergency departments are so far on course to be one million lower this April than last.
Some leading clinicians including the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and medical health charities such as the British Heart Foundation and Stroke Association have expressed concerns that people are risking their long-term health, and their lives, by delaying getting the help they need.
A new public information campaign – including today’s collaboration with One Minute Briefs is currently being rolled out to persuade people to contact their GP or the 111 service if they have urgent care needs – or 999 in emergencies - and to attend hospital if they are told they should.
As well as encouraging people to seek help for urgent health needs, over the coming weeks the NHS will take steps to encourage people to use other vital services - such as cancer screening and care, maternity appointments and mental health support – as they usually would, by demonstrating how frontline teams are delivering them safely.
Full article here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2020/04/help-us-help-you-nhs-urges-public-to-get-care-when-they-need-it/
NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said:
“While NHS staff have pulled out all the stops to deal with Coronavirus they have also worked hard to ensure that patients who don’t have Covid 19 can safely access essential services.
“So whether you or loved one have the symptoms or a heart attack or stroke, are a parent worried about their child or have concerns about conditions such as cancer you should seek help in the way you always would.
“Ignoring problems can have serious consequences - now or in the future.”
As part of the NHS’ rapid response to the greatest public health challenge in its history, hospitals have freed up more than 33,000 beds, the equivalent of 50 new hospitals, over the last few weeks.
An unprecedented deal with the independent sector has put their 8,000 beds and 20,000 staff at the NHS’ disposal, and seven Nightingale hospitals have been rapidly set up around the country, providing over 3,500 more beds to help local hospitals ensure all those who need care can get it.
This significant increase in capacity, combined with effective social distancing by the public slowing the spread of the virus, has meant that the NHS has so far successfully been able to meet everyone’s need, with capacity to spare.
Over the coming weeks the NHS will be working with top doctors and nurses, as well as patient groups, to highlight how local health teams have adapted to the global coronavirus pandemic, and to reassure the public that it is safe to access care – including scheduled appointments, vaccinations and maternity services.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage sharing #CuppasTogether with @PGtips, even whilst we’re apart.
Today we’ve got an amazing brief with a powerful message at its heart. To coincide with PG tips’ brilliant TV ad below, we are on a mission to get people to reach out to someone for a cuppa. Be it across the road, on the phone, virtually via video, or right here on Twitter, staying connected feels more important than ever.
Even before social distancing, 9 million people in the UK felt lonely but over half of us felt there was a stigma attached to loneliness. With lots of us experiencing loneliness at the moment, we want to help change this.
That’s why we’re calling on the OMBLES to help spread the word to people all around the UK, that staying home doesn’t have to mean feeling isolated. We want to encourage people to share virtual #CuppasTogether to help address loneliness through the joy of a good old brew.
After all, cuppas really do taste better together.
Remember to tweet entries to @PGtips & @OneMinuteBriefs with the hashtag #CuppasTogether
Prizes:
£100 Amazon vouchers!!
One year’s supply of PG tips!!
PG tips personalised mugs for you and the family!!
About:
At PG tips, we know a thing or two about bringing people together through the magic of a cuppa and a chat. With lots of us experiencing loneliness right now, we’re on a mission to get more people to share a cuppa with someone – whether it’s a friend, relative, neighbour or someone new.
It’s time to share a cuppa and a good old natter!
We want the good a cup of tea and a chat can do to be amplified to as many people as possible, at a time it feels more important than ever. This is where the OMBLES come in.
The brief is straightforward: spread the word about #CuppasTogether with quick-thinking creative designs, notes, sketches, scribbles, GIFs or however else you see fit, that will encourage people to connect with one another for a good old chat and a cuppa, wherever they find themselves.
Through visuals and/or words, we’d like to de-stigmatise loneliness and highlight why we’re better together despite any current physical ‘distance’. After all, loneliness affects everyone and together we can all help reducing it.
Find out more about the campaign, partners and how you can pledge to share #CuppasTogether here:
pgtips.co.uk/cuppastogether.html
EXTRA: The OMBLE Tea Party
We’ll also be having an OMBLE Tea Party on Zoom at 3pm BST. Make sure you have Zoom downloaded… DM us on Twitter to RSVP and I’ll send you the invite link. I’d like as many of you to join us as possible with your cuppas!!
I’ll be chatting briefly and inviting a few OMBLES to say a few words before we all say cheers with our cuppas for a big OMBLE Tea Party group pic!
Just make sure you have pen, paper and a cuppa with you (silly clothing or accessories optional) 😉
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One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters for the #HowtoSavetheWorldforFree book by @NatalieFee for this year's #EarthDay.
This #EarthDay, we're on a mission to help long-standing One Minute Brief ally Natalie Fee to help promote her brilliant new book, How to Save the World for Free. It's a playful, punchy and perky guide to getting us out of the ecological emergency, and a perfect lockdown companion.
Prize: £100 cash for today’s winner and a copy of the book to Natalie's top three entries!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @NatalieFee with the hashtags #HowtoSavetheWorldforFree & #EarthDay, along with the nataliefee.com/books URL.
Please include your Twitter handle in the corner of all entries.
ABOUT: HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD FOR FREE
Already an Amazon #1 Best-Seller!
We know that a better world is possible. One where we all get to breathe clean air, marvel at the abundance of wildlife and enjoy life without worrying if it’s about to self-destruct.But how do we get there? And can it really be … easy? And fun? And free?
You can start by reading this book. Then try doing a few of the things it suggests.
Pretty soon you’ll know the answer to those questions (it’s yes by the way!) and you’ll be part of something lovelier than you could ever have imagined.
This book can’t save the world, but you can.
More than a handbook or toolkit, How to Save the World for Free first helps us get our heads around the environmental issues we’re facing as a species here on Planet Earth, then it will take us into the heart of them, helping us connect with the all-important why. Then we’ll explore simple ways we can all save the world, while we eat, drink, sleep, work, vote, travel and play. For free.
Unlike any other guide to green living, How to Save the World for Free also
addresses the big barriers to change, including broken political systems, capitalism and consumerism – and gives us practical and engaging ways to disrupt them.
Grab yourself a copy here: nataliefee.com/books
Twitter: @nataliefee
Instagram: @nataliefee_
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to help #PlantTheSeed in society's mind to combat the climate crisis together with @OffsetEarth for #EarthDay
To celebrate #EarthDay’s 50th anniversary, Offset Earth is joining forces with One Minute Briefs to promote creative ways of saving the Earth …. 1 minute at a time.
We want YOU - creatives, designers, illustrators, quick thinkers - to help #PlantTheSeed in society's mind on combating the climate crisis together. Create a poster, a design, illustration, sketch, scribble or whatever else you can think of to share your own thoughts on the issue. As part of this, we’d love to see and hear about your own small changes that you’ve made to make a difference to the world and climate change
For every submission submitted, Offset Earth will plant 10 trees.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @OffsetEarth with the hashtags #PlantTheSeed and #EarthDay
Prize: £100 cash prize for today’s winner.
About #PlantTheSeed
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”
Offset Earth believes the power to save the planet lies in the hands of the individual and that together we can make real change to our planet and to maintain a sustainable climate.
We’re looking to inspire and empower people this #EarthDay by showcasing and celebrating all contributions no matter how big or small. You, your friends, and family have the ability to make lasting change. #PlantTheSeed of climate positive action in your life, remember no contribution is too small.
More information on Offset Earth and collective action can be found here:
offset.earth/collective-action
About Offset Earth
Beating the climate crisis requires all of us to make a change. It’s all hands to the pump. Reducing your own carbon footprint is essential, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle.
Offset Earth gives you a simple way to fund the world’s best climate crisis solutions and reforest the planet, supercharging your impact over and above just limiting your own damage.
From as little as £1.25 a week, you can start growing your own forest and make a real difference in the fight against climate change
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to show people why #WorkingIn on your brain with leading @YourHeights experts is just as important as working out on your body with a celebrity.
Today we’ve got the second of two briefs with @YourHeights and we’re excited to see the results of this one! There’s also a great prize to be won too.
So working in is the new working out..
You already work out with celebs, now work in with scientists, authors, thinkers, and experts on the topics of brain health and wellness, mental fitness, mindset, habits and more...
We’re looking for your quickfire thoughts, scribbles, sketches, designs, headlines and more to show how people why #workingin with a world-leading expert for your brain is just as important as working out with a celebrity for your body.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @YourHeights with the hashtag #WorkingIn
(You can also share on Insta too)
Prize: £100 cash prize for today’s winner.
About #WorkingIn
Many of the smartest minds around choose to start their day with Heights - and we are thrilled to welcome them to share their knowledge.
Heights is partnering with the world's greatest minds for a series of live masterclasses on brain health, mental wellness, mindset and training the most important muscle in your body, your brain. This exclusive series is designed to help you unlock your potential, stay mentally active and thrive, by ‘Working In’ with Heights.
Heights co-founder, Dan Murray-Serter will interview world experts like Stephen Fry, Jay Shetty, Mo Gawdat, Dr Tara Swart, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Dr James Doty, Dr Daniel Amen, Dr Sophie Scott and more - every Thursday 6.30 - 7.15pm.
Learn how to eat for a clearer mind, be more mindful, grow intelligence, combat stress, reduce mental health problems, socially connect, solve for happy, remember anything, laugh through it all and more.
All Working In sessions are by donation - with proceeds going to Mind, the mental health charity, to provide mental health support during COVID-19.
More info: https://www.yourheights.com/pages/workingin
About Heights
Heights is a human potential company focused on brain health and wellness. We believe a healthier brain is the key to a happier life.
Heights deliver exclusive content by the world’s leading experts on stress and anxiety relief, sleep, productivity, and nutrition, to benefit not only your brain itself, but your body and mental wellbeing too. We help you to understand not just how your brain works, but how to make the most of its potential in any situation - so your output is better than ever.
Delivered through the letterbox, our Smart Supplement packs in the 18 key vitamins and minerals your brain and body need to thrive at their prime.
Find out more here:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage the public to stay at home & avoid visiting popular destinations for the #DontVisitChallenge with @SimlSocial & @LoveYourNHS
Today we’ve got a fun brief to deliver an important message in typical creative OMB style.
Following the social media success of the #dontvisitwaleschallenge, that OMB got involved in on Bank Holiday weekend, it’s time to think bigger, bolder, grander, wider, deeper… sillier perhaps?
The #DontVisitChallenge, in partnership with @SimlSocial, urges the public to just forget it for a bit. Put your feet up. Watch telly instead. And, above all, don’t travel unnecessarily to visit places you don’t need to.
We want to see your creative ideas to encourage the bored and restless public to get behind the campaign and Stay At Home, despite the temptation to travel around this weekend. Especially when the sun is out.
Share your quick-fire thoughts with anything from sketches, clever copy, designs, tongue-in-cheek slogans and impactful messages to the public encouraging them to stay away from all the places they are usually welcomed to.
This also isn’t just for the UK. You can use any destination in your country for your entries.
The funnier and more creative the better.
You can enter as many as you like too!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @SimlSocial & @LoveYourNHS with the hashtag #DontVisitChallenge
(You can also share on Insta too)
It would be great if you can also include the hashtags #StayHomeSaveLives & #LoveYourNHS
Here’s a few examples to give you a little inspiration:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to show how @YourHeights Neurotrition can help you put your #BrainFirst & achieve peak mental performance whilst working from home.
Today we’ve got the first of two briefs with @YourHeights and we’re looking forward to seeing lots of fun creativity for this interesting topic. There’s also a great prize to be won too.
We’re looking for your quickfire thoughts, scribbles, sketches, designs, headlines and more to show how @YourHeights can help everyone achieve peak mental performance by fuelling their brain with the natural nutrients it needs to thrive.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @YourHeights with the hashtag #BrainFirst
(You can also share on Insta too)
Prize: £100 cash prize for today’s winner.
About Heights
Heights is a human potential company focused on brain health and wellness. We believe a healthier brain is the key to a happier life.
Heights deliver exclusive content by the world’s leading experts on stress and anxiety relief, sleep, productivity, and nutrition, to benefit not only your brain itself, but your body and mental wellbeing too. We help you to understand not just how your brain works, but how to make the most of its potential in any situation - so your output is better than ever.
Delivered through the letterbox, our Smart Supplement packs in the 18 key vitamins and minerals your brain and body need to thrive at their prime.
Find out more here:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create 'Toilet Training for Adults' style posters to help prevent flushed plastic pollution with @CityToSea_ #Unflushables
Following our previous briefs with City to Sea, we have got another one to help them reduce flushed plastic pollution. With many of us being at home at the moment, our message is more important than ever.
We hope you’ll go potty for this one!
Prize: £100 cash for today’s winner!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @CityToSea_ with the hashtag #Unflushables
Please include your Twitter handle in the corner of all entries.
About:
City to Sea is an environmental not-for-profit, campaigning to stop plastic pollution at source. Their award-winning campaigns are tackling the single-use plastic items found most commonly on our beaches and in our rivers and oceans by providing practical, solutions- focused campaign and championing reuse over single-use.
We’re literally flushing the health of our oceans down the toilet. Did you know that items like wet wipes, period products and nappies contain plastic? Our toilets are part of our water cycle. Any time you thoughtlessly flush something down the loo, someone or something has to remove it in order for us to access clean drinking water. Or it ends up as a very toxic dinner for some poor sea creature.
The worst offending flushed items are: wet wipes, period products, nappies, tooth-floss, cotton buds, contact lenses, cigarettes, incontinence pads and tooth floss.
We want to raise awareness of the worst offending items and encourage people to stop people from using the toilet as a bin. City to Sea are helping to connect our actions to our oceans, from bathroom to beach!
Web link: www.citytosea.org.uk/unflushables
Twitter: @citytosea_
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/citytosea
Plus, today we have a LIVE Q&A Stream on our Facebook with OMB Founder Nick Entwistle.
2PM GMT.
Set a reminder here: https://www.facebook.com/OneMinuteBriefs/posts/1462705457224865
& RSVP here. https://www.facebook.com/events/2632068463776676/
DM us your questions!! You can also ask questions in the comments on the Live Stream.
Hope to see you all there.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters using your name within the design using the hashtag #MyNameIs
Problem:
We reached 24,000 followers this week but we don’t all know much about each other and/or know what each other does.
Solution:
Let’s introduce each other in a creative way.
Brief:
Create posters using your name within the design using the hashtag #MyNameIs
From full names, initials, nicknames or even pet names…we want you to show us who you are.
Show your personality with imagery, colours, fonts, sketches, collages that reflect you by showing what you enjoy and/or what you do.
Think of it as a billboard that’s all about you. And all about your name.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs using the hashtag #MyNameIs
Prize: Winner will receive a copy of the upcoming 4th OMB Book
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to #SupportNursesAndMidwives for @WHO on #WorldHealthDay
Today we’re supporting #WorldHealthDay and hope all the OMBLES will join us to share your creativity and positive messages to #SupportNursesAndMidwives around the world.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @WHO, @LoveYourNHS and @UN with the hashtags #WorldHealthDay #SupportNursesAndMidwives
You can also tag @ICNurses @NursingNow2020 @World_Midwives @UNFPA and include hashtag #Covid19
7 April 2020 is the day to celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and remind world leaders of the critical role they play in keeping the world healthy. Nurses and other health workers are at the forefront of COVID-19 response - providing high quality, respectful treatment and care, leading community dialogue to address fears and questions and, in some instances, collecting data for clinical studies. Quite simply, without nurses, there would be no response.
In this International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, World Health Day will highlight the current status of nursing and around the world. WHO and its partners will make a series of recommendations to strengthen of the nursing and midwifery workforce.
This will be vital if we are to achieve national and global targets related to universal health coverage, maternal and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases including mental health, emergency preparedness and response, patient safety and the delivery of integrated, people-centered care, amongst others.
We are calling for your support on World Health Day to ensure that the nursing and midwifery workforces are strong enough to ensure that everyone, everywhere gets the healthcare they need.
The tagline for World Health Day is: #SupportNursesAndMidwives.
More info:
https://www.who.int/news-room/campaigns/world-health-day/world-health-day-2020
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to share how @WolfAndBadger #SupportSmallBusiness & provide a place to discover independent ethical brands worldwide.
Today we’ve got an amazing brief with a brilliant and ethical brand who are doing great things in their sector. We’ve also go a great prize for today’s winner too!! We can’t wait to see how the OMBLES get creative with this! We’re looking for fun, positive, scribbles, designs, notes and headlines etc that help share the story!
“We support under-the-radar independent brands who make genuinely unique products (our store when it was open was called “more fun than a museum”), connecting them to our ethically conscious customers through our cutting-edge online marketplace (& lifestyle stores, when they’re open). We’ve genuinely built a real sense of community between our brands, our customers & our team. Designers also get the majority of the revenues so they can keep on innovating.”
Prize: £150 prize to be spent on the Wolf & Badger online store.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @WolfAndBadger with the hashtag #SupportSmallBusiness
About:
Wolf & Badger is the destination to discover independent ethical brands worldwide. Now supporting more than 1,000 independent designers, we provide a platform which takes the effort out of finding and sourcing sustainably and ethically produced jewellery, fashion, accessories, homeware and beauty, without compromising on quality and design. Think limited-edition runs, with products made to last.
We want to create a forward thinking global community built upon the age-old pillars of skill, craftsmanship and quality. In the ten years since we began, consumers have become increasingly aware of the need for sustainable and ethical retail practice. We are on a mission to ensure that the future of retail is a responsible one, where independent designers are incentivised to manufacture and source sustainably and ethically and that we, as a retailer, uphold these values. #supportsmallbusiness
Also, we are very grateful that we can safely look after our entire team whilst continuing to support independent brands through our online marketplace without interruption to our service. We’re one of the more fortunate businesses that don’t rely on the use of warehouses or distribution centres, with designers sending orders out directly from their individual studios and workshops. Thanks to our delivery partner DHL, we're also able to offer no-contact deliveries with the utmost safety. We continue to ensure all our designers are adhering to best-practice guidance and following government directions; ensuring the safety and wellness of our community is ultimately top of mind at this time.
Wolf & Badger’s Philosophy:
'We founded Wolf & Badger with the intention of disrupting a deteriorating high street, and solving the problems of physical retail in a digital world. We provide a platform which takes the effort out of finding and sourcing sustainably and ethically produced jewellery, fashion, accessories, homeware and beauty, without compromising on quality and design. We aim to foster all things innovative, from avant-garde fashion to store design to business practice to food. We want to create a forward thinking global community built upon the age-old pillars of skill, craftsmanship and quality. In the ten years since we began, consumers have become increasingly aware of the need for sustainable and ethical retail practice. We are on a mission to ensure that the future of retail is a responsible one, where independent designers are incentivised to manufacture and source sustainably and ethically and that we, as a retailer, uphold these values.'
You can find out more about Wolf and Badger here: https://www.wolfandbadger.com/uk/pages/about/
Other links:
https://www.wolfandbadger.com/
https://instagram.com/wolfandbadger/
Twitter: @wolfandbadger
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage people around the world to maintain #SocialDistancing. Brief ran in partnership with @ITVPeston & @LoveYourNHS
Following all of our powerful One Minute Briefs lately, we are today collaborating with ITV’s Peston for a subject we’ve not yet covered. It’s important that everyone is staying home where possible, but if you are out when shopping or exercising it is vital to maintain #SocialDistancing.
So today we’re looking for fun, positive and creative scribbles, headlines, notes, designs, sketches and more to encourage people to stay at least 2 metres apart from anyone they encounter whilst outdoors.
The official scientific advice isn’t cutting through with younger audiences, and the UN has also recently issued a call for creatives around the world to mobilise and turn public health messages into work that people will engage with. And we’re responding to that call today. We hope all the OMBLES will join us!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs @ITVPeston with the hashtags #SocialDistancing & #HomeWithPeston
You can also tag any of the following in your tweets.
@UN // @LoveYourNHS // #Peston // #LoveYourNHS
Prize:
Winner receives a tour of the studios at the Television Centre and a place in the audience at the Live show (once this all blows over of course)
Winner & Runners-Up will have their tweets featured on TV this evening during the show this evening.
About:
Last week on ITV’s Peston, we found out that over 3.6 million people in the UK are still refusing to social distance, with the biggest culprits being people under 28. What may seem like a cheeky meet up with mates is putting extra strain on an already under pressure NHS. Our actions as individuals are more important than ever right now to help flatten the curve.
So let’s see what the OMBLES community can come up with. Create and share your posters and graphics encouraging people to maintain #SocialDistancing and, in turn, protect the NHS. The best ones will be shown on Peston’s Live Twitter Stream of the show on Wednesday night at 10:45pm.
UN INFORMATION & INSPIRATION:
Maintain physical distancing
Maintain at least 2 metres (6 feet) distance between yourself and anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
Why?
When someone coughs or sneezes they spray small liquid droplets from their nose or mouth which may contain the virus. If you are too close, you can breathe in the droplets, including the COVID-19 virus if the person coughing has the disease. Also danger of surface contamination - hence importance of personal hygiene.
Where advised, stay home and avoid gathering in groups or with people who may be more vulnerable such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions.
Inspiration:
● Balcony concerts while social distancing
● African artists are creating catchy songs to promote awareness about coronavirus
● Coronavirus: Indian greeting namaste goes global
● Together, At Home concert series - toolkit
Tone:
Fact based, educational, common humanity, shared experience, collective wellbeing, mental and physical health
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters & share ideas that promote global solidarity and build a #KindnessContagion
Today we are running a brief in response to the United Nations’ Global Call Out of Creatives. They want creatives to promote a #KindnessContagion and there are no people better at spreading positivity and togetherness than the OMBLES.
With this call to action the UN is aiming to inspire "creators, influencers, talent, networks and media owners" who can take its key messages and instil their own unique magic to them - "a creative twist, a cultural quirk, an interpretation which helps amplify them to audiences we are not yet reaching".
Info:
The affect of Covid-19 threatens literally everyone and, in turn, has become the worst global crisis since WWII. Yet, there are groups who are more vulnerable and need the protection of those in a more comfortable position. Therefore this brief is asking for the creativity community to think about how to promote a #KindnessContagion, pointing out how we need to work together “to propagate global solidarity”.
As a result this brief is asking for participants to consider “resetting the narrative” by acts which could highlight “the need for global and collective cooperation to face the pandemic”. Creative responses should both “inspire and spotlight acts of humanity” in this case, in both big and small ways. This approach is also inline with the UN’s “Global Goals” which include no poverty, zero hunger, quality education and gender equality.
The tone for this brief should engage with common humanity, mental health, be caring and offer solidarity, empowerment, destigmatisation, inclusivity and joy.
Inspiration:
● Kind Canadians start “Care-mongering” - BBC
● Stock up on [Love] - Priyanka Chopra
● Postcard bid to help self-isolating neighbours - BBC
● Examples of Human Awesomeness in a Global Crisis - Upworthy
● Message to Myself - 10 Days Ago (Italy) - The Atlantic
Combining Creativity & Communication to help Combat Coronavirus through the The Power of Community
3 weeks ago today, I was on the daunting stage at the Comedy Store talking about Emotion in Storytelling. Coronavirus was on people’s minds but in typical British style, and in a befitting venue, a few jokes were made to make light of the issue.
2 days later I was at the Digital City Festival talking about the ‘Power of Community’. I was in a place full of people talking, meeting, shaking hands and carrying on as normal. That afternoon, everyone received an update on their phones as Coronavirus was confirmed as a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
We were stood there in Manchester Central. The place that is now being re-purposed as a hospital for Coronavirus sufferers with upto 1000 beds.
This was all getting very real.
Everything in our lives began to change quickly day on day and, along with the rest of the creative industry and beyond, our calendar bookings began to evaporate.
One after the other, events began to get cancelled including talks, creative meet-ups and workshops I had planned with universities and organisations.
Our client filmshoots, photoshoots and other work projects were cancelled. One big project we had been working on for months was postponed indefinitely overnight.
Immediately, you are left with the prospect of no income… and, as the government locked down the UK more and more, no hope of booking in any other work in the near future.
Suddenly you are bombarded with brand and agency messages. Negativity. Warnings. Advice. Cancellations. Guides to WFH…
I deleted every single one as I felt overwhelmed by the whole situation. And, I didn’t want to add to the noise.
So I thought… what’s the best thing to do?
My conclusion… Nothing.
I stepped back for a week whilst staying indoors and doing some of my silly art for my Insta. I did the ‘Toilet Roll Kick-Ups Challenge’ and used the One Minute Briefs feed to cheer people up each weekday with fun briefs for subjects like card games, rubber ducks and even ‘create posters using a picture of a smiling dog’. I felt it was important to do these briefs to lift the spirits of the community, some of whom had messaged me feeling low about what was going on. That’s why, despite all that was going on, we showed our support to Action Happiness with an #InternationalDayofHappiness OMB campaign. A great show of positivity to one another that helped to strengthen our unity and resilience.
The heavily engaged spirit and community on show made me think that we can use this time of uncertainty and fear to send important messages out to the wider public at the same time as having fun and being creative.
So we ran briefs for:
#StayAtHomeChallenge:
Entries: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1444692935692784
Shortlist/Winners: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1446364712192273
#WashYourHands:
Entries: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1441183872710357
Shortlist/Winners: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1441754875986590
Scriba saw the briefs we were doing and got in touch to collaborate and respond to a call to action from Labour to Stop Panic Buying. The campaign featured in PR Week.
#StopPanicBuying:
Entries: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1450752391753505
Shortlist/Winners: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1450821181746626&__tn__=-UC-R
We also ran a brief for an initiative for an online pub called the Staying Inn. This was a fun project about bringing people together but with a serious underlying message to stay at home. We ran this in partnership with The Drum and the story was feature here.
‘The Staying Inn’ #StayHomeSaveLives:
Entries: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1449760978519313
Shortlist/Winners:https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1450451435116934
Off the back of this brief, a certain Guinness ad that wasn’t a Guinness ad became a Guinness ad and went viral across the world with the stay at home message right at it’s heart. Brilliant work by @redballoonluke.
Here is the original OMB entry: https://twitter.com/redballoonluke/status/1242051833906040833
Featuring in:
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/its-not-a-real-guinness-ad-but-it-is-a-perfect-guinness-ad/
Guinness have since posted it themselves on all their worldwide channels. I was really impressed by their approach as they embraced the way it was created and shared full credit in their post. And, above all, this has helped to share a very important message with a huge amount of people globally.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-MnsR-jtMm/?igshid=3vd8l6y48md7
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=guinness&epa=SEARCH_BOX
Without forgetting other world issues, on Friday/Saturday we delivered a campaign with the WWF for Earth Hour that encouraged people worldwide to get creative and involved in the event at 8:30 pm Saturday. We asked the community to share their ‘lights-out selfies’ and we even set up our own mini-event on Houseparty.
#EarthHour Brief with the WWF:
Entries: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1454126338082777
Shortlist/Winners: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1454316871397057
And I think the most emotive brief of the week was a show of support for the NHS. We received masses of ideas that showed their appreciation and we made it even more engaging by running it with one of our other feeds Love Your NHS and our friends at NHS Million. I have since spoken to the NHS Comms team and we might be able to help get more positive messages out there in the coming weeks!
NHS #LoveYourNHS #StayHomeSaveLives #ClapForOurCarers:
Entries here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1452699138225497
Winners here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneMinuteBriefs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1455022117993199
As you can see, from taking a step back and having some fun, it has helped to galvanise the community and give them an outlet to be creative amidst all of the doom and gloom. This togetherness has inspired some incredible campaigns that have been overwhelming to the point where I am now receiving calls from the press and seeing the OMBLES gaining the recognition they deserve in articles across the world.
On a personal level, all of this has helped me immensely. Although it has become very intense and relentless at times, I have been kept busy with constant waves of positivity, powerful messaging and support through our social feeds. The support is nothing like I have ever known. Our following has risen by 2000 in two weeks and we are getting more and more people getting involved internationally. As you can see on the OMBLE map that my mum constantly updates.
As I live on my own in Manchester City Centre without a garden, I had been very worried at the beginning of this lockdown period but as the week went on I felt strangely at ease. This is very much down to the support of the community but also down to friends, team-mates and family.
During this time, the group chats have been on fire and making me laugh every day with constant updates, memes and general stupid content.
I speak to my family face to face more than ever through Houseparty. I’m even chatting to people I’ve not spoken to in years as people have more time on their hands and less pressure on their work.
There have been concerts played from rooftops nearby for all of the neighbours to get involved in from their windows and we all joined in with #ClapForOurCarers. Most of the time neighbours don’t speak to each other but now we have never been so united. The crisis has created moments of solidarity like we have never seen before.
We are now all in the same boat. All at home and all hierarchy goes out of the window. No longer is everyone trying to compete and out-do each other with the experiences they are sharing online. And more focused on creating places where people can get together online and create their own experiences instead. It’s a learning curve but amazing to see how quickly people adapt.
No longer is the ‘fear of missing out’ increasing everyone’s anxiety. Because there’s nothing to miss out on.
We are no longer all living in a social competition. We are using social media for good. Going back to the message I shared at the start about the power of emotion and community, it has never been so important to stick together and show we care for the sake of humankind.
In a very short space of time, people who have been forced apart have never been so close to one another.
When all of this is over, I hope that continues.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage people around the world to take part in #EarthHour with @EarthHour
We’re looking for the OMBLES to create posters to encourage people around the world to take part in #EarthHour from the comforts of their home, tomorrow evening at 8:30pm. As well as this, we want everyone to post their selfies during the event. Usually we want the best lighting for our selfies, but this time it’s lights out. Go on and get creative!
No lighty, we likey.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs @earthhour with the hashtag #EarthHour
Please include the call to action below in your tweets (and add your own voice of course):
Join #EarthHour tomorrow at 8:30pm on 28th March and raise your voice for nature in 2020 at earthhour.org/voice
Prizes:
While doing it for the one place we call home is reward in itself, we will also pick:
1 winner will receive £100 cash and a tee from the Earth Hour shop.
1 runner-up will win a tee from the Earth Hour shop.
For #EarthHour this year we’re asking you to show us how you connect to this one place we call home:
How will you participate in the hour? Here are 20 ideas to get you planning: https://latest.earthhour.org/earthhour-at-home
Messages to consider in your posters:
Nature matters - it is the planet’s life support system and gives us everything we need from the air we breathe to the water we drink to the food we eat.
Nature is also a key ally and one of the best solutions against climate change
2020 is a critical year for nature. This year key political decisions will be taken on climate action, sustainable development and nature. These decisions will affect the health of our planet and all our futures for decades to come.
About #EarthHour:
JOIN US ON SATURDAY MARCH 28, 2020, 8:30 PM YOUR LOCAL TIME! HELP PLACE THE SPOTLIGHT ON NATURE - THE WORLD IS WATCHING.
Started by WWF and partners as a symbolic lights-out event in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour is now one of the world's largest grassroots movements for the environment, engaging millions of people in more than 180 countries and territories. It has become a catalyst for positive environmental impact, driving major legislative changes by harnessing the power of the people.
More info here: https://www.earthhour.org
Twitter: @earthhour
Let’s fill those timelines with positive images that support this one planet we call home.
