you blog: tweets jan 4 [agency & video of 2012 & howard's course]

Friday, January 4, 2013

tweets jan 4 [agency & video of 2012 & howard's course]

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
1/4/13 7:33 AM
#2013 welcomes the rise of a new biz #culture that values young people exercising personal agency #CSR#Sustainability ow.ly/gtiPF

sandymaxey (@sandymaxey)
1/4/13 7:09 AM
+1k RT @lesamitchell Build communities before solutions. On Hackathons and Solutionism -davidsasaki.name/2012/12/on-hac… …@KauffmanFDN @startupamerica

The starting assumption isn’t that there is an app or gadget that can fix complex social problems, but rather that there is value in bringing together diverse actors to contemplate the stories and social issues that lie out of plain sight in large datas

To attempt to explain why the civic app sector has yet to reach scale is the topic of another blog post, but I’m willing to assert that it’s not for a lack of hackathons and app contests. There is no shortage of prototypes; rather there are few willing investors to support the hard part of their development, and there are few projects that have done serious market research on the needs of their users.

http://codeforamerica.org/accelerator/
http://www.mindmixer.com/

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
1/4/13 7:32 AM
"#Social #Innovation is becoming more #transparent & pervasive as a way of being a good biz" #sustainability ow.ly/gtiLZ @CSRwire

The first concern I had was that businesses were separating ‘sustainability’ into a distinctive function, which for the most part was isolating who thought about it and increasingly creating fragmented initiatives not systemic enough to really matter in a timely way.

goes against sandy's - bringing together diverse actors.. and keeps you blind to actuality. no?

I expect to see a flood of new businesses in coming years, but more evidently, a new business culture that values young people exercising personal agency. And it is being advocated far and wide by media.

ReachScale (@ReachScale)
1/4/13 7:33 AM