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  Monday 25th Agenda - Initial Meeting

  melbadmin 7:05 am on May 25, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  

  Updated agenda for tonight. 6pm Turf Bar – on the sofas!

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    melbadmin 6:19 am on May 26, 2009 Permalink
    

    Due to a few mishaps, and Melbourne Monday-ness we didn’t have the numbers to form a setup committee on the night.

    I’m open to discussions on format & ideas as to whether primarily online or offline (meet-ups). Feel free to post your thoughts. But it will need some impetus, and that’s on you! so we shall leave the opportunity open!!

    PR OPP: Time by time, we’ll add events held by other groups (eg. RACV, SLV, Domain, etc) and the consensus seems to be to keep the group informal at this stage.

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  Setup Convo! Monday 25th, 6pm, Turf Bar ...

  melbadmin 1:02 am on May 22, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  

  Setup Convo! MONDAY 6 CITY

  Monday 25th, 6pm, Turf Bar Queen St – http://www.turfbar.com.au/contact.html

  That’s between Collins & Bourke – park under RACV nearby.

  You must RSVP by commenting or twitter ok!

   
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    Tim Reid 1:43 am on May 23, 2009 Permalink
    

    This is a great idea…The magic will lie in the actioning of the ideas that result. I’m looking forward to contributing.

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    Richard Wraith 1:13 am on May 25, 2009 Permalink
    

    What a great initiative. Not sure I can make it this evening but am very interested to see how things evolve. Might not be a bad idea to open up a dialog with Sally Capp, a Gen Xer and CEO of the Committee for Melbourne. Someone like her can open doors and make things happen.

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  First Agenda of Thoughts on Club

  melbadmin 12:24 pm on May 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  We’re setting up the club, here’s some thoughts/issues. Add your thoughts in the comments. They are moderated, btw.

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  Sustainable Cities Round-Table

  melbadmin 12:52 am on May 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  There’s still seats, if you’re at a loose end tonight (wed 20th May) & interested in sustainability, come along! Hopefully some new ideas leading to innovation in Melbourne & catch up to California &others
  (fingers crossed).
  

  From Ferne Edwards, Eco-Innovation Lab >
  

  THE SUSTAINABLE CITIES ROUND TABLE

  The Energy to Change

  6-8pm, Wednesday 20 May 2009

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  MEDIA: New Melbourne Club for Frustrated Generation X & Y to Lead Change

  melbadmin 11:31 pm on May 18, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 19th 2009 9.30AM
  

  In Melbourne today, 2thinknow announced the new Melbourne Innovation Club for Generation X & Y change agents, frustrated with a lack of opportunity for change in Victoria; first formal meeting of a soon-to-be-announced Steering Committee to be held Saturday 23 May, 2009 10.00AM.

  “The purpose of this club is a open-source ethos: creation, collaboration & connection! Melbourne Innovation where the price of admission is ideas, and ideas alone! We welcome ideas people, creators, thinkers, doers, leaders! Race, Gender & Religion don’t matter. A more open, inclusive Generation X & Y club,” said, Christopher Hire, Executive Director of 2thinknow, Organizer of the Club.*

  “2thinknow call Generation X & Y the Creative Generation – far more positive & reflecting the inherent strength of this generation!” Hire continued.

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    Despina 1:20 am on May 19, 2009 Permalink
    

    hey Christopher
    Age has nothing to do with creativity or capacity to innovate – Picasso was painting at 90 etc etc
    There’s no inherent or intrinsic value in youth as such except firmer skin and that’s an attribute not a value. So please, stop being ageist! T here are some dreadful ‘Ians’ among gen Y as well…

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    Christopher Hire 1:47 am on May 19, 2009 Permalink
    

    Thanks Despina

    Yes, I agree with you that youth doesn’t make one creative by & of itself.

    However, Creative Connections older than Gen X & Y are better represented in their voices. This is a club that is alternate to the established outlets, perhaps involved in the generational handover.

    Gen X Y can only have the experience of having power/influence/voice (and so much is voice!), if they actually are given the opportunity to do it! in much the same way the Baby Boomers did. It’s about representation – there are simply less options or right of reply for Gen X & Y.

    I recall your strong felt comments on Cult of the Amateur, but I’m open to a better way – that’s collaboration!

    Very Best Regards

    Christopher Hire

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  NEW: Melbourne Innovation Club!

  melbadmin 12:15 pm on May 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  A new thinker, ideas person or innovator?

  We’re forming a new thinkers group – in Melbourne for Generation X & Y creative thinkers committed to real change in Melbourne.

  Collaborate.

  There are so few outlets for real change. So let’s work, share, play, meet-up.

  Ideas.

  Inspire each other. Think.

  Exclusive.

  Not in the normal (Melbourne) sense. So you’re religion can be Jedi, hair can be blue, and who cares about who you’re sleeping with AND most especially, what school tie you wear.

  And age-wise limited to the young & positive. We’ll have to vote on that.

  We need you.

  We need a chorum, a meeting place (rotating rosters), website (check), a drinks sponsor, and some more. But, let’s get together let’s do this thing.

  The point is lasting change, real innovation Not more stale baby boomer ideas. Note more corporate ideas, or old-fashioned issues. Not more regurgitated slideshows on a podium.

  A new web-enabled networked connected innovation club.

  Let’s start here. Let’s form:

  Melbourne Innovation Club.

  Let’s change Melbourne. NOW.

  Sounds Cool. In Melbourne or nearby? Gen X & Y? Frustrated with lack of innovation? Got ideas? Want to form a connected Club to promote, prosper, partner for innovation in Melbourne?

  Let’s. Add your name below. We’re also looking for venue/boardroom on a rotating basis; and we have to collaborate to decide all the details to make this thing work! First step – add your name below.

  Membership willbe by agreement, and there will be some (democratic, crowdsourced)  rules to keep out self-promoters & bores, but we haven’t decided those rules – and need to collaborate!

  This site is sponsored by 2thinknow (http://www.2thinknow.com).