Monthly archive for November 2009
Ideas & thoughts from Palomar5 in Berlin
I just arrived back from a mind-blowing week in Berlin at Palomar 5. I wanted to thank everyone at P5 for the amazing days and write down a few thoughts, learnings and ideas from the last 5 days in Berlin. There is much more that would deserve to be told, like stories about mexican-human-mini-golf courses at 4 am, midnight Omelette cooking with Saga or Eddie’s theory of focus vs. broadness on a napkin. Below some of the stuff that inspired me most and ideas that came out of it.
Weekly Inspiration #17: The future of work
With a great part of the Sandbox team, we spent the week-end in Berlin at the occasion of the Palomar Summit. Palomar is a six-week innovation Camp with 30 young participants from all around and the Summit was a mix of keynotes by the residents and by external speakers. Check out our Palomar5 post for more information about the project. The [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Brian W. Jones
Sandbox member Brian W. Jones is currently living in Greensboro, Alabama where he helped start PieLab, a welcoming community space focused on civic engagement, economic revitalization, and job training. He describes himself as a designer, “trying to redefine what that means and the role I play in business”.
What is your latest project?
I’m working on a few things right now, but a [...]
New community services launched today
Today at 12, we have launched several new services on the Sandbox community. Have a look below to learn more! These services are designed to help Sandboxers make the most out of the network: find places to sleep or work when traveling, exchange ideas, look for people for their projects or for new opportunities, get [...]
Meet a Sandbox member: FRASER DOHERTY
Fraser Doherty is 20 years old and comes from Edinburgh, Scotland. He runs SuperJam, a company making a range of 100% fruit jams and supplies all of the major UK supermarkets. He is a member of Sandbox since October 2009.
Hi Fraser, what is the story behind Superjam?
Aged 14, my Gran taught me to make jam [...]
Weekly inspiration #16: Have more fun at work
A while back, I mused on this blog that it’s becoming more acceptable to have fun while doing serious things like work: “Fun is no longer perceived as just recreational, but also productive: If you enjoy yourself, then you just deliver better results.” So how can you make your work more fun? Here are some [...]
PALOMAR5 FROM THE INSIDE - WEEK #4
This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October - 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag #p5 for real-time updates. You [...]
Food and Seed Funding in Singapore
During a recent trip to Singapore, I had the opportunity of meeting outstanding people from the local Sandbox community. It was my second stay in Singapore and it was encouraging to see how Singapore had changed over the last 3 years: most visibly though the addition of the Singapore ‘Flyer’ (a bigger version of the [...]
Innovators Gather in Washington DC
Sandbox dinners are a place where emerging ideas and the innovators behind them meet. Last Friday, Sandboxers and potential members came together in Kramers Books and Afterwords, a well-known Washington venue. Nested in the restaurants upstairs balcony, the Sandbox group of technologists, social media experts, entrepreneurs, and other passionate innovators shared their stories.
Among [...]
Introducing: The Sandbox Twitter List
Here at Sandbox, we love Twitter and use it regularly to interact with people all over the world. So do a lot of our members, whose Twitter updates we love to read and re-tweet. And now, thanks to Twitters newly added list feature, so can you: We’ve created a continually updated list with all tweeting [...]
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