Social Innovation Camp gets rolling
Social Innovation Camp Meetup last week was great fun. The guys from Decisions for Heroes presented what they’re up to. Not much doubt about their social purpose – “We Save Lives” is their tagline. John Grant then set everybody thinking about how to reduce junk mail. I hope we’re going to get some ideas sent [...]
Camping News
Some fantastic news on Social Innovation Camp. Nesta and The Young Foundation have very generously agreed to support us to run two more camps and a series of monthly meetups that will get underway in the Autumn. The main date for your diary is 5-7 December in Bethnal Green when we’ll be repeating the creative [...]
The opening bid
For the slightly geeky machinery of government people out there, this is really interesting. David Wilcox and friends have decided to do an open source bid for a tender announced by the Office of the Third Sector for an Innovation Exchange. I’ve long thought that government tendering processes were one of the big barriers to [...]
Mobile returned
My mobile phone was handed in… one theory the police mentioned was that my trusty Nokia 6230 wasn’t actually worth pinching.
After Stern
I’m doing a short talk in response to Michael Jacobs at an event at the RSA on Wednesday about climate change and the Stern review. Michael is a member of the UK Chancellor’s Council of Economic Advisers and a brilliant speaker – will be interesting to hear what he has to say. I think I’m [...]
Be Succeedy
Neil Mullarkey’s latest newsletter has a couple of links to podcasts with The Beermat Entrepreneurs. First as L. Vaughan Spencer: http://www.beermat.biz/short-podcasts/BeermatRadio-Ed13-SHORT.mp3 And then on the value of improvisation in Business: http://www.beermat.biz/short-podcasts/BeermatRadio-Ed14-SHORT.mp3 There was also a brilliant bit (Real Player) on the Today programme that I meant to blog ages ago where Neil came on after [...]
If the blogs are right…
… we’re in trouble. Just logged on and noticed the ‘top search this hour’ on Technorati is ‘World War III’.
Where do you come from?
James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds (one of my favourite books of recent years) has an interesting piece in the Guardian about ownership of companies. Following the hoo-ha about foreign ownership of US ports and successive attempts by foreign investors to buy the London Stock Exchange, it’s very topical. I have to admit, [...]
