Join us for the next Social Innovation BarCamp in Sydney. It’s free registration so sign up now and participate in a day of ideas, conversation and creative thinking. Again we’ll be crowdsourcing ideas for creating new business models for social good and building up our community network of changemakers. Like our previous Social Innovation BarCamps … [Read more…]
The next Social Innovation BarCamp is on and the theme is sustainable design! Click here to REGISTER NOW When: Saturday 6 November 2010 Time: 9.30 am – 5.30 pm Where: COFA Paddington, Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington, NSW 2021 [map] You can also follow on Twitter @sibsyd and the hashtag is #sibsyd
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 had … [Read more…]
In late November I spoke at Startup BarCamp in Sydney. The topic was about the kind of personal trade-offs & choices we make when choosing to work in a startup. These choices are not always immediately obvious when you go into a startup. However, the number of broken relationships and partnerships amongst my acquaintance in … [Read more…]
In spite of having to stay in online contact with work last Saturday I still made it to BarCamp # 5 in Sydney. It was a great day and the new venue – the Australian Technology Park Innovation Centre – was ideal (if slightly chilly in the Atrium). Again I am struck by how much … [Read more…]
Do not forget that BarCampSydney5 (#bcs5), the recession edition, is on Saturday 27 June 2009. BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment”. BarCamp is an intense community event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the … [Read more…]
BarCamp Sydney is on again – so block out Saturday 27 June 2009 in your diary. This is 5th BarCamp Sydney & the un-organising committee has tagged this one as the Recession Edition or “the BarCamp we had to have” (paraphrasing Keating from 1990). There’s a new venue this time, with the kind folks … [Read more…]
Having recently seen the film, I’m now reading the comic novel Watchmen. It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from the book is: The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking … The solution to this problem lies in the … [Read more…]
