The next Social Innovation BarCamp will be held in Sydney on the Saturday 6th November 2010. They tell me it’s not a traditional conference. but an unconference.
Social Innovation BarCamp sessions are designed to facilitated conversations rather than having keynote speakers with Powerpoint presentations at the front of a room talking to an audience.
Instead there are nice facilitators who frame and encourage the flow of conversation on various topics that have been proposed.
Social Innovation Barcamp has four principles:
- Whoever comes is [sic] the right people
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
- Whenever it starts is the right time
- When it’s over it’s over
And possibly two laws:
- The Law of Two Feet. which states simply. if at any time you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing. use your shop two feet and move to some place more to your liking. Such a place might be another group. or even outside into the sunshine. No matter what. don’t sit there feeling miserable – Source: Harrison Owen
- The Law of No PowerPoint. which states simply. we know you’re used to the crutch of PowerPoint (or Keynote or Prezi. etc) but you need to leave it behind for the day. Instead use other forms of communication (perhaps draw a poster or write on a whiteboard?) to help get your message across – Source: Kate Carruthers
Does anyone else want to join me?
And does anyone from Newcastle like to drive down with me and share the experience?
Date and time: Saturday 6 Nov 2010 from 9:30am to 5:30pm
Address: COFA. cnr Greens Rd & how to add creative borders to photos on your phone Oxford Sts. Paddington. NSW 2021
Inspired by Brian Solis & JESS3 and created by Ethority. a German social media marketing agency. the Social Media Prism is a fantastic visual aid to help learn the social media landscape. It has help me many times to explain that social media is not just Facebook and Twitter.
For more information go here: http://social-media-prism.ethority.de
NSW State Council reveal their 2010 Awards for Marketing Excellence
The Australian Marketing Institute has announced the winners of the 2010 NSW Marketing Excellence State Awards on the 16th September.
The Marketing Excellence Awards celebrates interest and recognises those organisations and marketers who have achieved extraordinary success from innovative and effective marketing practices.
State winners progress to the Australian Marketing Institute’s national Marketing Excellence Awards. along with direct-entrants. which will be announced and presented at a gala dinner as part of the Institute’s Annual Conference on 13 October at the Sofitel Hotel in Melbourne.
