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Great topic! Turns out community and engagement is an essential ingredient. At @Learnie our entire platform is based on the idea that community is essential to learning.

Here's something fun for next weekend at the Library! Circuit-bent kids toys, tape machines, retro synths through guitar pedals, along with other oddities such as solar panels, nabbed from broken garden lamps that become audio oscillators when mashed together with computer fans and bike lights - built upon the works of my buddy Adam Ben-Dror. Anyone working in education or with a passion for city planning is welcome to stop by for a chat about ways that STEAM projects and creative spaces, with collaboration and connectivity across Dunedin, could be provided to people of all socioeconomic backgrounds both easily and affordably by harnessing resources that are lost via waste streams. The e-waste world is full of musical items that provide a tangible and engaging link to the principles of physics, electronics and engineering. A motor from a tape machine demonstrates gear reduction, the copper wire pulled out of the motor and rewound can demonstrate electromagnetism, which taped to a piece of paper and connected to an amplifier shows how electromagnetism transforms electricity into sound waves.. and so on. The hugely popular MakeRoom Wellington, where I used to work, have been lightyears ahead on all of this 👏 👏 👏 Although they give 110% every day, as well as a large portion of their family home to make it work and have almost no holidays, I've witnessed how incredibly challenging it has been to upscale and achieve wider acknowledgement and recognition under their own steam. It's a difficult one to unpack why it's like this, or how such a brilliant example can continue to fly under the radar of those in a position to support and enact greater change. In saying all of that, thanks to the Dunedin City Council Waste Minimalisation funding team for their support with this project and I'm really looking forward to updates on the upcoming waste plan!

Sales gets a bad rap, but I think about it differently. Selling Ither, my text-based software for volunteers who hate technology, is really about delivering value to individuals with a real problem. In every touchpoint, I want prospects to feel important, connected, and excited about how technology can expand their community impact. Here's how I built a highly engaged initial audience for Ither: 1) Through talking to 40+ volunteer engagement professionals, I identified something of value to them: Networking & comradery. I also learned that the primary blocker is that it takes effort to organize events, and no one has the time. 2) I found an efficient way to communicate it. The United Way was happy to share their nonprofit contacts to invite, and I plan to return the information better than I got it, by updating bounces and expanding the list. The United Way connection also helps build my credibility! 3) I hosted a great event that suited the prospects. United Way helped set me up for success and gave me tips, like what time and location had been successful in the past. 4) I earned my 5 minutes of platform time, especially because I've got something interesting and relevant to talk about. Better (and cheaper) than a conference booth! I proud I put some time and money into building the Charlottesville Volunteer Engagement Professionals group. Volunteering is important, and empowering the people who empower volunteers has a compounding effect on our community!

Really hoping I can arrive at .Conf24 to hang 🤗 with my Trust peeps next year. The Splunk Trust is based upon selecting from the Splunk ecosystem not necessarily the top 75-ish smartest or techiest people in the world, but the top 75-ish most helpful people (who are also very competent). (Oh, we also can't work for Splunk.) Some of us help people by leading user's groups, some by answering questions on the Splunk Answers forums or the Reddit \r\Splunk subreddit or the Splunk Community Slack channel, and some of us by acting as external or internal resources for large organizations. But we all strive to create the opposite of the feeling that Stack-Overflow generates. We want people to feel comfortable asking questions, and we're happy to help them find the answers, and sometimes to also find the answers to the questions they SHOULD HAVE asked.

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A brilliant AGM with great speakers answering challenging questions on everything data, change, innovation, regulation and compliance. I particularly liked the question - why will it change now, haven’t we heard it all before? The answer - because it has to, with technical advancements, consumer demand and collaboration. It’s not just upfront information, that’s just part of the change, it’s everything but most important a change in mindset from everyone involved estate agents, lawyers, lenders, banking, land registry etc Refreshingly challenging and forward thinking. #changemakers #industryleaders #regulation

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