Archive for the 'Life' Category
Today (Monday 17th November 2008) marked the inauguration of Chain Reaction 08, a two day conference in London which “will bring together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, young people and people like you from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally.”
Today […]
November 17th, 2008 | Posted in Alternative Technology, Bioneers, Business Venture, Class, Community, Consciousness, Corporate, Culture, Environmental, Friends, General, Global Community, Growth, Life, London, Non-Profit, OpenSource, Pachamama, Social, Social Computing, Society, Tech, Tools, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing | No Comments
I’m an avid reader of Steve Pavlina’s Blog, and an entry I was reading today, got me thinking.. I just had to post a response.
Steve Pavlina, for those of you who’ve never heard of him, is a Personal Development Innovater, who through his blog, and website is sharing his experiences with the world, with regards […]
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Alternative Technology, Community, Consciousness, Culture, Food, Global Community, Growth, Healing, Health, Life, Personal Development, Self Help, Social, Society, Success, Working Smart | 2 Comments
Net Tuesday, November, stirring the Non-Profit Tech Community in London
Amy Sample Ward, the new Community Builder at NetSquared, which is a community for non-profit techies (and also a project of TechSoup Global), came to London, in September 2008. With her experience, and background, in supporting and nurturing the non-profit tech community in the US, she […]
November 7th, 2008 | Posted in Community, Consciousness, Culture, Efficient, Friends, General, Global Community, Growth, Life, London, Non-Profit, Personal Development, Self Help, Social, Social Computing, Society, Success, Tech, Tech Events, Travelling, Travelling in Peru, Web 2.0, Working Smart, crowdsourcing, funding | 2 Comments
So, the US presidential elections are a hot topic, no doubt.. It seems I couldn’t avoid them, thanks to my colleage at work, who streamed the debates, and news from the US elections, into the office, each and every day!! Thanks Greg :) As much as I wanted nothing better than to ignore it, like […]
November 1st, 2008 | Posted in Alternative Technology, Community, Consciousness, Culture, Efficient, General, Global Community, Government Conspiracies, Life, Race, Social, Society, Tech, Tools, Web 2.0, Working Smart, crowdsourcing | No Comments
So, I’ve recently been reading Personal Development for Smart People, being an avid follower of Steve Pavlina, and having just finished the book.. I’ve found myself having experienced a real roller coaster of a ride.
Not least, because of how self-reflective the book is, and how it forces you to examine your life, from so many […]
November 1st, 2008 | Posted in Class, Community, Consciousness, Culture, Efficient, Environmental, General, Global Community, Growth, Healing, Health, Life, Pachamama, Personal Development, Race, Self Help, Social, Society, Success, Synchronicities, Tools, Working Smart | No Comments
Date: 25th of September, 2008
Location: Doon Club, Trafalgar Square, London
Mission: To have a tweet-up with a social conscience.
Confused?? You might be! Unless you’re a part of the Twitterverse, in which case, you probably enjoyed the Twestival twitter stream, if you weren’t at the Twestival in person!!
For the uninitiated, I haven’t become a Twit, and gone, […]
October 8th, 2008 | Posted in Community, Culture, Food, General, Life, London, London Tech Events, Social, Society, Tech, Tech Events, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments
Imagine you could talk directly to the CEO of a company, whose service you use on a daily basis. Imagine your ideas, suggestions, feedback and criticisms reaching the guy at the top directly. More importantly, imagine being able to join in the conversation, and listen in on the thoughts of the person steering the company. […]
September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Class, Community, Culture, General, Life, Social, Society, Tech, Web 2.0, Working Smart | No Comments
Life has a funny way of showing up sometimes..
I was browsing Steve Pavlina’s blog, and happened across an interesting article, that talks about how we can imagine things in the future, before they have even happened. And how that worry, and regret, for something that hasn’t occurred takes us out of the present moment, and […]
September 7th, 2008 | Posted in Consciousness, General, Healing, Health, Life, Personal Development, Self Help, Working Smart | No Comments
So I’ve entered a contest called SeedCamp, and I need your support. What’s the contest about? Well, it’s a competition, run by some of the big venture capitalists in Europe (read - people with lots of money, who made it big in the dot.com boom!), including founders of skype, bebo, and some bigwigs from google, […]
August 9th, 2008 | Posted in Alternative Technology, Business Venture, Community, General, Global Community, Life, London, Seedcamp, Social, Society, Startup, Success, Synchronicities, Tech, Web 2.0, Working Smart | No Comments
So, I managed to scramble together this evening, and pull together a webcam, and a set of headphones, and get a computer that could work with them both plugged in, and record a short video for the SeedCamp contest, on their blog. Apparently the most popular video get’s to attend the one day event, which […]
August 7th, 2008 | Posted in Friends, General, Life, London, Seedcamp, Social, Startup | No Comments