Tweet Sydney’s inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp went well yesterday. The day kicked off with an opening talk by the Hon. Bob Carr, who kindly gave his time to support this event. Throughout the day we had some amazing networking and discussion sessions focused on creating sustainable futures and directing innovation towards social good. We also [...]
Entries Tagged as 'community'
The importance of role models who look like us
April 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · community, ideas
Tweet On Wednesday evening I attended the retirement dinner for a mathematics teacher whom I’ve known and respected for many years. I will not mention him by name as he’s a very shy and private individual. This gentleman and his wife migrated to Australia over twenty years ago from Malaysia to work as teachers and [...]
Being real
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · community, ideas
Tweet As a child I read a story where the main character wanted to be a ‘real boy’ and not just a wooden puppet. And this choice between being a real person – who connects with other people and things in an open and organic way – and being a puppet – driven by fear [...]
International Women's Day 2010 #IWD
March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · community, ideas
Tweet It is fascinating to note on this International Women’s Day that one of our major newspapers has an article titled “Gender pay gap shows no sign of abating” The gender pay gap can cost women up to $1 million over a lifetime * Women earn 17pc less than men * Pay inequality worth $1m [...]
Sydney Knowledge Cafe with Katie Chatfield
October 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · community, ideas
Tweet At the recent Sydney Knowledge Cafe I managed to catch up with a few buddies & ask them why they were there. Here’s Katie Chatfield explaining why she attended. The video was taken with the new Flip Mino HD (an extremely nifty gadget). The format of this event was created by David Gurteen & [...]
Tags: collaboration·community·social media·social networking
some real people for #followfriday
October 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · community
Tweet The idea of #followfriday is a nice one – share the names of people worth following on Twitter. However, it’s turned into a bit of a spam fest on Twitter. I thought it would be nice to share about some of the real life people I follow and a bit about them: @ceibner – [...]
Tags: #followfriday·community·twitter
Blog action day 2009 is coming soon
September 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · community, ideas
Tweet Goodness me, how quickly time passes. It is Blog Action Day on 15 October 2009. This year it is about Climate Change. Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion [...]
Tags: community·sustainability
Cupcake Camp Sydney video is up on YouTube
September 7th, 2009 · 6 Comments · community, ideas
Tweet Through the very kind offices of @ApostrophePong (& his trusty assistant @Stilgherrian) we have a great video record of the recent event. A really big thank-you again to everyone for getting involved. Tweet
Tags: #cccsyd·#cupcakecampsydney·collaboration·community·people
Kind supporters of Cupcake Camp Sydney
August 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · community, future
Tweet A number of organisations have stepped up to offer prizes for Cupcake Camp Sydney. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank them for their generosity, and also to show the prizes that our cupcake makers could win. The Plantronics has provided one of their Discovery 925 Bluetooth earpiece. It is a nifty designer [...]
Tags: #cccsyd·#cupcakecampsydney·charity·collaboration·community
Why cupcakes, why animals?
August 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · community, ideas
Tweet My current obsession with cupcakes and supporting the RSPCA results from two things that came together recently. Last year I was intrigued to hear about the various cupcake camps that were being held around the world. It seemed like a nice thing to do – getting people together for a social occasion and trying [...]
