Slides from talk on Building the Sharing Economy #ChangeFest
Kate Carruthers Building the sharing economy from Kate Carruthers More information about the event is here on the Changemakers Festival site.
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Social media for social good #socent
I discussed Social Media for Social Good at a City of Sydney Talk on 27th June 2012. It is an important issue. There are many decrying social media for increasing…
The growth of the recommendation economy
Seth Godin wrote about the the attention economy. But it seems to me that we are also seeing the evolution of an online social recommendation economy. When we all lived…
#140Conf New York
Spoke at the amazing #140conf in New York City, hosted by the amazing Jeff Pulver, recently about Twitter: Activism and Real Life Relationships in the context of Social Innovation Sydney.
Interesting new initiative: #Solved by TACSI via @stokely
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…
Building community #sibsyd #sydstart
On Thursday I spoke about Social Innovation Sydney at SydStart along with Selena Griffith, Michelle Williams, and Kim Chen. Apart from the Social Innovation Sydney team there was an illustrious…
The business of social business
Social business is the new trend following on from Enterprise 2.0 – but underlying it is an essential conflict between two different styles of doing business. The conflict is between…
What kind of zombies have we created?
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…
How do we create and share value in a jobless economy?
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…
Business, boring jobs and social good
Over the past 150 years businesses have dealt with the challenges of increased scale by optimizing processes, resource allocation and expenditure. However, there is a limit to how much one…