In this third episode of our Social Innovation Podcasts we are featuring:

• Geoff Mulgan from the Young Foundation
• Christian Bason from Mind Lab
• Latest Social Innovation news in Australia
• What's coming next year.

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In our second episode of our Social Innovation Podcast we are featuring:

- Ezio Manzini and his ideas on Small, Local, Open and Connected projects as a new approach for social innovation

- Tony Abrahams and the journey that took him to co-create Access Innovation Media (Ai-Media)

- Latest Social Innovation News from around Australia

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I was reading the latest article from the economist on Social Innovation. I feel it is very encouraging to see how there are more and more people talking about Social Innovation in new ways. This article is concentrated in two main concepts:

1. The reasons why it makes sense for governments to become interested in Social Innovation
2. Why it is ok to make money and do good at the same time

The Social Innovator Dialogues is an unique and groundbreaking collaboration between The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) and the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX)

SID Ezio Manzini Public Forum powerpoint

SID Ezio Manzini Public Forum

I have been following with interest a conversation that has been bringing together all the Social Innovators in Australia (Thanks to @edwardharran) around COSI10 and also with the Social Innovation Barcamp coming very soon. I feel that this has a lot of potential to collaborate in more things.

I thought I would open this thread to start having this conversation in an open space.

So, where from here? Any thoughts?

We are proud to present the first episode of our Social Innovation Podcast series. In this episode we are featuring Charles Leadbeater talking about user led innovation and Biddy Bags, a boutique social enterprise that connects socially isolated nannas and mature-aged ladies through craft, economic participation and social networking.

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These are the final presentations from the winners from the 1st Australian Social Innovation Camp

1st Place - Refugee Buddy

We are happy to announce the members of the panel that will select the ideas that will come to the 1st Australian Social Innovation Camp.

• Professor Peter Shergold AC: Head of the Centre for Social Impact
• Martin Stewart-Weeks: Chairman, Australian Social Innovation Exchange
  

There was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald last Friday about the Sydney Leadership program delivered by the Benevolent Society and that I just completed. Being in Sydney Leadership reminded me of when I changed sectors. Having initiated my career in the corporate sector, when I moved to the not for profit sector a few years back, I faced a much bigger adjustment than I first expected and it opened my eyes to the big gap there is between the sectors.