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Chainreaction08 at session on scaling
technology’s with accenture’s david tomlinson
chris – salesforce.com
foundation
billion dollar business 3k employees
2-300 in uk
foundation launched when company was
launched
started, long before company was
profitable
1% model
1% of all time, money, and product,
donated, to charities non-profit charities
over 1k charities using salesforce in
their global community
2 very successful projects working with
accenture
accenture worked with kids company,
member of staff took […]
November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business Venture, Community, Corporate, Culture, Environmental, London, Non-Profit, Project Management, funding | No Comments
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
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
LinkedIn has recently made the move from being just a network tool, to adding applications to the platform. Much akin to the Applications, now a mainstay of the Facebook platform, and long seen as a way for developers to infiltrate the existing trust networks that exist on the inside of Online Social Networks, LinkedIn, has […]
October 30th, 2008 | Posted in Business Venture, Corporate, Culture, Efficient, General, London, OpenSocial, Project Management, Social Computing, Startup, Startup Support, Tech, Tools, Web 2.0, Working Smart | No Comments
Just discovered g2i - gateway2investment, which is an investment readiness programme for London based companies looking for equity investment, to assist with rapid growth.
As an entrepreneur, with a company in London, looking for investment, if you’re innovative, and looking to grow the company with an equity investment, then g2i might be able to help. I […]
October 30th, 2008 | Posted in Business Venture, Community, Corporate, General, Growth, London, Seedcamp, Startup, Startup Support, Tech, Web 2.0, funding, investors | No Comments
It seems that blogging is still very much a “new” phenomenon, with many larger and older established businesses and organisations approaching it with caution, and hesitation. Just thinking of mainstream supermarkets in the UK, such as Sainsburys, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons, and Marks and Spencers, I did a quick poll of their main websites, to find […]
October 30th, 2008 | Posted in Alternative Technology, Community, Corporate, General, Global Community, London, Social, Social Computing, Society, Tech, Web 2.0 | No Comments
Bootlaw, presented by @danversbaillieu and @bazv rocks!!
I was meant to be interviewing a serial entpreneur this evening, who happened to cancel, and so I ended up checking to see what was happening tonight, and picked up, out of the twitterverse, the BootLaw event. Mainly cos Redditnation was going to be recorded there this evening, and I […]
October 16th, 2008 | Posted in Business Venture, Community, Culture, London, London Tech Events, Startup, Tech, Tech Events, Web 2.0 | 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
So I attended the SeedCamp Interview Day yesterday, and I have to say it was a real eye-opener…
I managed to arrive at the right building, in time, and found that the interviews were running a little late. That bought me a bit of extra time to get to know some of the folks that were […]
September 4th, 2008 | Posted in Alternative Technology, Business Venture, Community, Culture, General, Global Community, London, Seedcamp, Social, Society, Startup, Tech, Technical Stuff, Web 2.0 | 2 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
