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.

We would love to hear your feedback on the type of content you would like to see here.

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

For the past couple of months, we’ve been thinking about who we are, what we do and what we want to achieve. Aided by Rachel Botsman and with great input from a number of people in the social innovation community, we’ve been refining the way ASIX should define its identity and purpose.

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.

We would love to hear your feedback on the type of content you would like to see here.

That an enthusiastic group of Changemakers had the opportunity to engage with Charles Leadbeater at an intimate event just over a week ago was an exciting enough addition to Australia's social innovation calendar. Add to that the fact that it took place on a glorious Sydney morning, with views of the Opera House from the Quay Restaurant, and it was an event not to be missed.

We went back to the different teams from the 8 ideas that came to the 1st Australian Social Innovation Camp and asked them about their progress in the past 2 months.

These are the updates from the first group of ideas:

Tools4Good

What developments have happened since the camp?

Seven hours into the Social Innovation Camp... our groups have been working solidly since this morning, reluctantly stopping to fill their stomachs and flex their legs every now and then. With 8 ground-breaking new concepts being developed, it has been fascinating to see the process that emerges when a group of virtual strangers (correction: more like virtual friends, via Twitter!) join to collaborate over a common theme or idea.

I'm sitting in the middle of a cluster of engine rooms at the ASIX Social Innovation camps - four different conversations filter through open doors in bursts of energy, with the sound of tapping keyboards a consistent underscore. Through the glazed walls of the meeting rooms I see whiteboards covered in scribbles and colourful post-it notes, chairs haphazardly arranged around working tables, and laptops of different makes and models facing off against each other as their owners get busy with wireframes, graphics and interfaces.