18 March 2008 | Categories: Innovation, Social media, Social networking | Leave a comment
The folks at Social Innovation Camp have announced which of the ideas submitted to the project will be developed at their weekend-long event in April. The ideas include Barcode Wikipedia, a site for storing user-generated product reviews and info against a product’s barcode, and Rate My CV, a web 2.0 site to help jobseekers.
Web 2.0 tools have turned the online world into a social space and the idea behind Social Innovation Camp is to use this phenomenon to create better solutions to social problems in the real world. From 4-6 April 2008, 75 people will come together in an ‘unconference’ to develop the selected ideas.
You can read more about the selected ideas as well as other ideas that were submitted and are open for comments and suggestions. People interested in attending the event can register interest here.
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19 December 2007 | Categories: Client projects, Social networking | 1 comment
One of the projects I’ve been involved in this year is Smarta, a new website which will bring people at all stages along the entrepreneurial journey together online to share experiences and get the answers they need, when they need them. A ‘taster’ site was launched in November, and the full site will be launched in 2008 - you can register for email updates to stay informed.
Smarta is a social enterprise and its aim is to give people thinking about starting up the confidence to go ahead whilst encouraging those with existing businesses to grow - and give them the tools to do so. Find out more about Smarta.
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16 November 2007 | Categories: Social networking | 2 comments
Today marks the last day of Enterprise Week 2007, an annual flurry of events run by the Make Your Mark campaign, whose mission is to encourage young people to have ideas and make them happen.
As part of Enterprise Week I helped to organise a speednetworking event for a group I belong to on Facebook - the Third Sector PR & Communications Network. Groups set up on social networking sites can often lack the drive or direction to be genuinely useful (I’m talking about the professionally-oriented groups here, rather than the just-for-fun ones), so it’s great to belong to one that’s thinking about how it can be of real benefit to its members.
There’s already talk of another meet-up in January, so I guess the move to real-world networking was a success!
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