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Along with most other Australians I have been moved and disturbed by the unfolding flood disaster in northern Australia. The floods are said to cover an area of Australia the size of France and Germany combined. Typical of Australia we also have bushfires in the western [...]
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 those smart folks over at Innovation Bay will be running another one of their angel dinners.
With these dinners Innovation Bay acts as a broker between “angels” (those with money to invest or advice to give) and “entrepreneurs” those with ideas and talent [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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).
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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