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
Listening to your inner voice is the right choice
September 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments · personal development
It’s so easy to get advice, so easy for people to tell you what they think you should do. But is it the best advice for YOU? Only recently taking the step to create my own business it felt so important to find mentors, to ask questions, to rely on other people’s advice to make [...]
Tags: change·empowerment·entrepreneur·needs
Everyone’s talking at Sydney’s first Social Innovation BarCamp
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, personal development
Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010 was the inaugural BarCamp discussing Social Innovation. An interesting and diverse range of people participated in conversation and activity throughout the day. “the vision for running the Social Innovation BarCamp is to provide a place for people to engage. There are many intelligent and effective people, from various fields, across the [...]
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The green future makers & the politicians
July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Environment, sustainability
Australia is behind the rest of the world when it comes to developing sustainable energy. Yet we lead, especially in Asia, in education and research. Why is this? How can we make progress in these areas? Monday night was an interesting mix of the Future Makers documentary ~ Australians leading the way in sustainable energy, and [...]
Tags: Australia·change·climate change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·entrepreneur·Environment·government·technology
The Hive Sydney and Bart Jellema
July 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · entrepreneur
The Hive Sydney welcomed Ross Hill and heard Bart Jellema tell his story from start-up to exit last night at the return of this monthly event. After a bit of a hiatus the Hive Sydney returned with a packed house and a great story. Ross Hill started us off by explaining why the Hive was [...]
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