People often ask me what Social Innovation is and my answer constantly evolves, but I strongly feel that it’s importance will continue to emerge. Social Innovation is finding solutions to the social, cultural and environmental challenges we together face. The world and our society has experienced unprecedented growth in the last 100 years. While we [...]
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What exactly is Social Innovation?
January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation
Tags: change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·empowerment·entrepreneur·Environment·government·growth·human behaviour·local·needs·Social justice·Sydney·technology
Week 3: Pollenizer BootCamp Customer Development
October 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · entrepreneur, personal development
The Pollenizer Bootcamp is enforcing the Lean methodology and forcing me to think as a “smart” entrepreneur. What’s that saying? “work smart, not harder”, that is the case for all teams at the camp. The Week 3 session has been and gone and, now I’ve focused on what my idea is, it’s time to test my hypothesis [...]
Tags: community·connection·contribution·Environment·growth·human behaviour·technology·Web
Best of both world’s, but how to integrate?
September 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, technology
Walking home this evening, after an intense day focused with workshops on social innovation and web tech, it struck me how siloed these 2 worlds are when they have such potential to integrate. Both are developing their own methodologies and frameworks to become more efficient and increase the possibility of success, yet both show possible [...]
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Power to the people
September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Going into this election it felt like a mass wave of disapproval across the country of the way the election campaign had become “a fight between 2 dogs” as Rob Oakshott so eloquently put it. The outcome, of a hung parliament, was a great way of the people demonstrating this dissatisfaction. Before voting, I worried [...]
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Old style election campaign vs the new hyper-connected world!
August 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Pt 1 of Change Politics in Australia: The uncomfortable election campaign: Using old style campaign and selling methods in the new hyper-connected world. What an uncomfortable election process. I am so glad that I only watch commercial TV on the odd occasion as every time I flicked over I was aghast at how many political ads were [...]
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