brodie.mcculloch
adventures of a rogue thinker.
I live and work in the most isolated city in the world. I am passionate about social innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, travel, technology, government 2.0, sustainability, design, photography and have been known to have entrepreneurial tendencies.
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2011 30under30 up-and-comer
Big few months with the Young Social Pioneers and now coming a sort of runner up in the Anthill Magazine 2011 30under30 Awards. Some top Winners....next year. You can read the full write up here.
Young Social Pioneers 2011
I have been lucky enough to be selected as one of 13 Foundation for Young Australians - 2011 Young Social Pioneers. I am part of this with an impressive group of people and will be heading back to Melbourne ever few months to participate in a range of training and development.
One part of the program and something I have been thinking about for a while now is finding a mentor. One area I would like to get a better insight into is Politics and Politicians so I thought that could be a good start...so next question...anyone know and politicians?
Should be a great year.
About Young Social Pioneers
The Young Social Pioneers program brings 14 change makers together each year to develop their leadership skills and support their vision for social change.
During their 12 month journey FYA provides each Pioneer with professional training, workshops and strategic advice, and connects them with like minded professionals. During this time participants learn how to develop their initiatives to a sustainable level.
The project currently has 28 alumni whose ideas have affected over 50,000 people around the world. Young Australians aged between 18 and 29 with a social change project are encouraged to apply. When young people are given the platform to contribute, whole communities feel the benefit.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
I like this -
The Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark. They wrote it in 20 minutes, “because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.”
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Once you’re done you can throw it away.
- Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- Done is the engine of more.
Desk / Office in Fremantle, Western Australia
I have been in my office for just over a year now and have had people coming and going, lately due to the hub project and my work taking me all over the place I have not been there that often, also there are two desks which are permanently vacant.
I am looking for someone who would like to use a desk or two, it can be paid for monthly or weekly (or daily even).
You can have a bit more of a look here.
Contact me if you are interested.
Grab a coffee to help the homeless
Grab a coffee at any participating coffee shops and $1 goes to local homelessness projects. http://www.streetsmartaustralia.org/
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A big start after eight months of work
Over the last eight months we have been working on our first big project through Social innovation in Western Australia. We were looking for proven ways to increase the opportunity for Innovation and Collaboration and through that process have found a number of co-working and collaboration spaces teamed with support programs that provide some very positive outcomes.
On Tuesday we had our first event to start the community building and co-creation of a space on St Georges Terrace. Full details of the space can be found on www.hubperth.org and we will be updating with more information as this process continues over the coming months.
There is still a lot of work to do in relation to getting more partners onboard and designing a space people that organically encourages innovation however we have made a solid start and now it is all about maintaining momentum...the plan is to have it open by October 2011. (follow and contribute on facebook and twitter)
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