2012-05-15 10:25:25 // Peter Kerr
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Wellington’s Enspiral is a difficult beast to describe in traditional terms. For a start, there’s very little to compare it to.
2012-04-12 11:13:02 // Josh Martin
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Donate Your Desktop is combining digital advertising and charitable causes to improve the world – one desktop at a time.
2011-10-31 18:03:07 // Esther Goh
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Famine relief in the 21st century: eat like a refugee, stay off Facebook, set up a Twitter swear jar.
2011-10-13 15:11:07 // Idealog
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Festival for the Future is the latest venture for Splashroom Media, the socially conscious Dunedin filmmakers.
2011-09-07 13:52:28 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #35: workshop
Peter Salmon is doing good and being paid for it; his hybrid programmes combine all the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs with social aims of do-gooders.
2011-09-07 10:30:02
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The grandson of legendary Warren Buffett has grand plans to bring private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy.
2011-07-05 11:20:00 // Idealog
Gaming for a good cause: New Zealand’s largest online social gaming company SmallWorlds has raised $38,000 by selling limited-edition virtual goods to thousands of players.
2010-02-15 10:41:07 // James Hurman
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Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common.
2009-12-04 12:44:07 // Julie Starr
// Idealog #24: features
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In a Wellington corridor, Nat Torkington laid down a challenge—and sparked a small revolution. Julie Starr reveals how a loose collection of determined Kiwi innovators are using public data to change the ways that politicians, public servants, companies and people communicate. But is the country ready? Plus streetwise and now open.
2009-08-07 12:59:25 // James Hurman
// Idealog #22: features
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Nobody believes business anymore. So who’s in control of your brand? It’s all of us. Here’s how the truth has been democratised, distributed and Google-optimised. It’s goodbye to the mass message and welcome to The Conversation.
2009-07-03 08:44:52 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Innovation isn’t just a commercial buzzword. It can transform our schools, hospitals, public spaces, transport, workplaces and our leisure time. And now New Zealand has its own organisation dedicated to encouraging new thinking to transform Kiwi society.
2009-06-26 12:00:00 // Simon Young
// Idealog #22: workshop
A well-targeted interview in the media can be worth thousands in advertising. But most interviews don’t “just happen”—they’re the result of business owners or PR people pitching stories.
2009-06-26 12:00:00 // Simon Young
// Idealog #22: workshop
Above and below the line, online and off, where do you put your marketing energy? Take a tip from the experts: start first with getting to know your customers
2009-06-07 16:14:34 // Peter Griffin
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| 2 comments Idealog watches on at the first Social Innovation Camp as digitally-minded Wellingtonians attempt to come up with answers to some of society's pressing needs.
