Jean Russell
Curator: Thrivabilty: A Collaborative Sketch Founder: Thrivable.org/.net || Facilitator, Coach, Guide.

We are inviting innovators to converge on April 24 in The Bay Area for the 2012 unMoney Convergence to engage in an evolutionary conversation on money. In the wake of the financial crises around the world, new approaches are emerging in the ways that currency moves and property is held.

Jean's SF week for April. Wanna meetup?

We will be drinking and meeting each other. I will announce The Agency at Thrivable and describe how it is an engine for you in the transition at hand. Here to be helpful.

Will be working in San Francisco a week in February and a week in March. For the February round, please add yourself here for 1:1 meetings or group gatherings with me. Thanks!

Thank you for being among the first to register for SOCAP11. This year will open on Tuesday evening with a registration party, and as in the past, three full days of content, so mark your calendars for September 6, 7, 8 & 9.  As always, if you choose to contribute to the Entrepreneur's Scholarship fund, your contribution will be used...

In this facilitated one day workshop we'll take the ideas generated on Day Two (Sunday) of Gathering '11  for projects, intiatives or enterprises, and develop them in to implementable project plans from a service design perspective using the design thinking approach. The good folk at Hub Melbourne have offered us the use of their space...

After 2 days of intense learning and inspiration, we'll all need a good post-Gathering '11 relax and unwind. It's also a good time for us to reflect on the weekend that was and to catch up with participants that we didn't get the chance to speak with over the weekend. Dinner will be at The Horn African Cafe and Restaurant in...

Gathering '11 brings together leading thinkers, change-makers and collaborators from across Australia and around the world to explore what’s possible, and develop ideas on how we can best solve today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges, together.

Join featured participants from the not-for-profit, government, corporate,...

Come and join us on the eve of Gathering '11 for a drink at Hub Melbourne's Friday Wine Down! Bring a bottle of wine with you and come relax, reflect, connect and be inspired. It will be a great opportunity to connect with other participations and start sharing ideas and inspiration. Enjoy some great conversation, a few good tunes and...

This panel will explore ways that games can be used to motivate personal change and increase productivity. We'll start by talking about the theory behind games and gamification for behavior change — in contrast to games for social networking (e.g., Foursquare) — and how game-like activities have been used for a long time to encourage...

FREE to SXSW Interactive, Gold and Platinum Badgeholders. $15 to General Public. Advance ticket sales here: http://www.showclix.com/event/plutopia2011

To be held in Austin on Monday, March 14th, 2011, the event will be thoughtfully positioned as a well-crafted link between SXSW Interactive, Film and Music. Furthering our mission and intent to...

The internet is now social, but the tools and theories we use to understand it are rooted in a pre-social past. Much of the psychology inspired interaction design draws on information processing models from desktop application design. Perfect for shopping carts, not so good for understanding the social web. Newer psychological theories like...

Google, via its rich snippets, has reported that microformats has a 94% usage share (as compared with RDFa etc.). So how does the future look for microformats? In this session, we'll look closely at real problems with implementing microformats in HTML5 and how this can be done, and whether there will be a continuing place for them. We'll...

South by Southwest (SXSW) is a combination of film, interactive and music festivals & conferences that take place every March in Austin, Texas.

Five days of presentations, networking events, and more showcasing the best new emerging technology, digital works, video games, and innovative ideas.

The International Day of Awesomeness is a celebration of awesomeness. People are awesome every day, frequently don't realize it, and their feats of awesomeness are rarely recognized. We aim to fix that, with a special day to both perform and celebrate feats of awesomeness!

The way to celebrate The International Day of Awesomeness is simple....