ideas
Can a government really change the way it does innovation by doing a #policyhack ? It was refreshing to hear the Turnbull government immediately turn around the depressingly negative rhetoric of the Abbott era and start talking about innovation, agility, and action. And it was a nice surprise when Wyatt Roy
social innovation
[slideshare id=28062584&w=427&h=356&fb=0&mw=0&mh=0&style=border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px&sc=no] Building the sharing economy from Kate Carruthers More information about the event is here on the Changemakers
social innovation
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 isolation and disconnection between people. Social media can be used as a force for social good and social inclusion. Social
social computing & social media
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 in villages there was a strong recommendation economy, and it was fuelled by the fact that everyone knew each other
social computing & social media
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.
social innovation
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: Big or small, it doesn't matter. It can be something done by an organisation, or one person. My dad did a
ideas
It always delights me when friends get to meet interesting people. Thus I was pleased to see that Valerie Khoo, founder of the Sydney Writers’ Centre, recently had a visit from Robert Kiyosaki. It is worth watching the entire video as Kiyosaki shares his thoughts on business, the economy, and
social innovation
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 line-up for SydStart - you can see the list here. My brief talk was focused on the approach taken to
social computing & social media
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 businesses optimized for efficiency and those optimized for the creation of value. Greg Satell encapsulates this conflict neatly in
civil society
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 from it. He lives
social innovation
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 jobs and
management & leadership
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 can optimize a business and not damage the society within which that business exists. I have spent a goodly part