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Just saw announcement by TACSI that they’ve launched a new campaign. It seems like a really interesting idea, and one that definitely supports social innovation:
Why Solved? Sometimes when tackling social challenges, we focus too much on searching for new ideas or solutions, and overlook things that [...]
During an exchange on Twitter earlier this year with some folks who were attending #scrmsummit we chatted about customer service and about how costs are a real focus for most customer service activity. Thus, rather than focusing on excellent customer service, most organisations focus on the cheapest and most efficient [...]
I was reading Bill Bonner’s recent post Zombies Born of Government Spending where he posits the notion of zombies in our economy. As Bill defines it:
“In economic terms, a zombie is a parasite. He contributes less to the economy than he takes [...]
Jeff Jarvis sparked my thinking on this recently with his post on The Jobless Future. As Jeff so bluntly stated:
“We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future.
Holding out blind hope for the magical appearance of new [...]
I have argued previously that capitalism is broken and that we need to find new approaches that are good for people, animals and the planet. Further I asked if social innovation might be part of that [...]
You know that moment? The one where you realise you’ve left your mobile phone somewhere.
It happened to me recently in New York. I was on the train to JFK airport, heading to Los Angeles, when that sinking feeling was accompanied by a vivid memory of my iPhone recharging in [...]
I’m exhausted after a busy weekend and totally inspired by the people I just spent the weekend with!
We held the first Social Innovation Sydney Startup Camp this weekend. It was great to see so many people willing to work together in an open and collaborative way on [...]
Attending the Media 140 Conference in Brisbane today. The tag line for this conference is “exploring the impact of social technologies on science communication” and it explores some of the issues and challenges facing science communication today.
There’s been a great line-up of speakers so far, with:
Bernie [...]
This is a fascinating interview by Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) with Don Tapscott (@dtapscott). Tapscott discusses the potential upside and downside of collaborative revolutions for societies around the world and the implications for dissent, noting that:
“the Internet radically drops the cost of dissent”
Just spent another evening with a great bunch of women learning about JavaScript as part of the Oz Girl Develop IT program for 2011.
Discussing the plans for this year’s Oz Develop IT with Pamela Fox and Cathy Lill tonight it became [...]
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