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Social Innovation Meetup

Apr 22
Wed 6:30 PM
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Estimated attendance
 65  people attended.
4.50 4.5014

Who organized?
Katherine Hui

This month, we're going to be thinking about the economy.

But - for a change - it's not going to be all doom and gloom.

We reckon the recession could be an opportunity; it's a great time for new ideas.

Are there ways we'll need to adapt to spending less cash as jobs are lost? Will there be more Freecycling? A bigger market for OwnGrown? Or will different ways of borrowing and lending money be increasingly important? And how can we help people who've lost their jobs? What are the ways we'll be finding new careers and ways of working?

Join us for beer and some good conversation on April 22nd.

(And remember, the call for ideas for our next Social Innovation Camp weekend is open: send us your idea that uses the web to create social change and you could be joining 100 other Social Innovation Campers to try and make it a reality. Check out the details here: http://scotland.sicam...)

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  • happyseaurchin
    Posted Apr 24, 2009 1:13 AM
    happyseaurchin
    i enjoyed it it was well facilitated timing was good may not have produced the buzz the facilitators wished for but a good experience for sure met up with luke who is a friggin genius and other bods who are bright as buttons high level of quality minds good specific ideas with high potential for development especially those relating to recession and unemployment solutions in terms of the entire soc inn camp protocol this bodes very well
  • ProactivePaul
    Posted Apr 23, 2009 8:55 PM
    ProactivePaul
    I agree with Dan Law - this should be more about social enterprise and less about web dev! Yes, they're linked . . . but what is the primary focus?
  • Pre-Meetup comments below
  • Rosanne Ainslie
    Posted Apr 21, 2009 10:25 AM
    Rosanne Ainslie
    Recession is most certainly an opportunity for innovation. New ideas get people excited and starts economy moving. There is a lot of money out there ready to be invested in amazing ideas, we just have to make sure that the ideas are sound and worth it. Give it the best we have got!

Who attended?

  • 65 attendees
    • “ A great group! Very well organized! Good times and great ideas with smart people! ”
    • “ Another great night with the Social Innovation crowd. Social, and innovative, plenty of good ideas and collabrative thinking going on. ”
    • “ 3 or 4 of the ideas could have become one really strong idea with a bit more time and focus ”
    • “ Very Fun couple of hours! Could have used more facilitation & direction during the half hour of fleshing out the idea. Especially due to the tight time-frame. A format of sketches for the deliverables at the end of the session would have been good, and more paper/flipcharts could have helped too. Although it was a great session regardless of these factors. ”
    • “ Paul had some good questions during my presentation, but it upset the flow. I think very few people actually heard Anna's announcement, so we were unprepared for questions in our prepared speeches. I think too much was expected in too short a time, and even though some good ideas emerged, maybe the focus should be on KISS. Met some great people and had some engaging discussions. Would have liked more of that and more open space at beginning, middle and end. I wondered what happend to the food, there seemed to be no break for it? And then it was gone! A good 7 out of 10. Would have scored more if we had had time to think! Thanks Proactive Paul ”
    • “ Excellent place to brainstorm the future with creative people. Great workshop facilitation by the organizers. ”
    • “ Would be great to have similiar but where focus is not so much on web tech - i.e. put people working on social projects with experts - accountants, business mentors, academics, policy makers, legal advisers etc. i.e. about the social enterprise rather than webdev. However overall great - just to meet with others with overlapping interests. ”
    • Tim
    • Vikram Shah (+2 guests)
    • charlesarmstrong (+1 guest)
    • Tracey (+1 guest)
    • Andrew McDonough (+1 guest)
    • Adam Hawes (+1 guest)
    • Jon
    • Robert Hanna (+2 guests)