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Conférence Neuro-management au Hub

Les dernières recherches en matière du fonctionnement de notre cerveau ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives relatives à la compréhension de nous-même, de nos interactions avec les autres. Ainsi, une majorité des stress relèverait de nous-même et non de notre environnement. Mais la découverte la plus importante relève de notre capacité à passer d’un mode de pensée dit limbique à un mode “préfrontal”. Soit un mode qui nous amène à la sérénité, l’intelligence émotionnelle et adaptative mais aussi à traiter le complexe. Comment? C’est ce que Jean-Luc Roux, membre du Hub nous a invité à découvrir le 21 septembre dernier. Une seconde séance d’introduction aura lieu le 19 octobre prochain.

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Driving Mobile Activism Adoption

How can social entrepreneurs drive the adoption of their mobile activism tools? Participants in Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurship Twitter chat identified several key themes. Broadly speaking, the key drivers of adoption fall into three categories: design, distribution and context.

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HUB LUNCH about Palestine

Hub lunches are  an informal way of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. The Hub Brussels organizes once  a week a gathering over lunch  to share knowledge and experiences about a topic of common interest.

Last monday, Caroline Zeller (one of the Hub Brussels hosts), in collaboration with Otman from Generation Palestine, held the first Hub Lunch in The Hub Brussels.

Caroline showed us a video about her recent trip to Palestine in which, together with a group of students, touched the reality of the area and conducted an artwork that symbolized their feelings and experiences in Palestine.

On the other hand, Otman explained the work that Generation Palestine performs and introduced us the political and historical context of the country.

You can see more pictures of the event here.

Check more events in our website: www.the-hub.be

The renovation works started at The Hub Brussels!!

Today we started the renovation works in our big space!!! The cool, inspiring  and collaborative space is going to be ready in september!!

In the following link, you can see how the room looked like before in 360 degree panorama view:

http://www.immovisit.com/xlo373_11/

Social media for social impact (for social entrepreneurs)

A new handbook was released recently called Social By Social Social by Social is a practical guide to using new technologies to create social impact. It makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects. Whoever you are, it shows you how to take technology and turn it into real world benefits.

Congratulations to all involved, we think it’s a great and useful resource.

Networks and networking the new form of organizing.

Researchers and social activists are beginning to discover the power of networks and networking.  And there is a growing recognition that networks are the new form of organizing.

Networks create the conditions for emergence, which is how Life changes.    Because networks are the first stage in emergence, it is essential that we understand their dynamics and how they develop into communities and then systems.

Read more here.

The Venus Project, confronting problems that face modern society

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth’s ecosystems.

As you will see, The Venus Project is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

REad more, here http://www.thevenusproject.com/

Positive Economy & The Hub Brussels looking for social entrepreneurs

“Belgian Positive entrepreneurs” and “The Hub Brussels” aims at collecting data about the Belgian societal entrepreneurs as well as promoting them. We are looking for the most innovative social  and for these reasons will be identifying the most advanced social, environmental and societal initiatices in the SMEs, associations, coops…

Contact us in contact@the-hub.be if you are a social entrepreneur

Everyone can be an entrepreneur. You just need a good idea

It really is different this time

This time is different. Protecting the environment is now at the center of government and business efforts to promote economic growth. This goes well beyond the $94 billion in short term investment that the US government has targeted for green jobs and environmental innovation, or the $2.6 billion that the Canadians are spending along the same lines or even the more than $200 billion the Chinese government will spend.

This time, more businesses are taking a leadership role in calling for new and long needed measures to protect the environment.

This time, we’ve also learned an important lesson. Improving our environment and our health is good business.

Read more here

Biomodd, collaborative art project that integrates nature and technology

Biomodd is an interactive and collaborative art project that integrates nature and technology. The aim of the project is to create an art installation in which different forms of plant life coexist with a fully functioning computer system. This system is built almost entirely from recycled computers, and plant growth is stimulated by the excess heat of the working electronics. Visitors can interact with this art installation by playing a multiplayer computer game that runs on this hybrid system. Conceived by Belgian artist Angelo Vermeulen and first developed in the USA, the idea is now being expanded and relaunched in the Philippines.

Read more here: http://www.biomodd.net/overview

How To Offer A Great Volunteer Experience (5 of 6)

Posted by Realizedworth on 20 Jun 2009

Demote Your Staff To Create Limitless Potential.

Massive change is sweeping through the business world. Corporate Social Responsibility is precipitating thousands of new Employer-Sponsored Volunteer Programs. But can non-profit organizations handle the huge increase of volunteers coming their way? Maybe not. If non-profits do not reinvent their current volunteer management model, they threaten to suffocate these brilliant new efforts and disenfranchise the volunteers who come through their programs.

Non-profits and community organizations are due for a change: they must understand that volunteers are the key to achieving their mission. Unfortunately, this new understanding will require NPO’s to demote their entire staff.

Read more here

And get some more tips for managing your volunteer here

Ethics for social entrepreneurs

Professor David Batstone offers ten Principles for entrepreneurial ethics.

Are you a real social entrepreneur?

1. Company directors and management will consider their work force valuable team members, not merely hired labor.
2. A company will think of itself as a part of a community, not just a “market.”
3. A company will take every possible care to ensure the quality and safety of the products it brings to the public.
4. A company will treat the environment as a silent “stakeholder,” a party to which it is wholly accountable.
5. A company will strive to diversify the kind of people who lead and manage its affairs.
6. A company will pursue international trade and production based on reciprocal exchanges that respect the same rights accorded its own people.
7. A company will nurture an organizational culture that encourages its employees to give critical feedback on unethical practices, and even “blow the whistle” when their voices are ignored.
8. A company will protect the privacy rights of its suppliers, customers, and employees.
9. A company will deliver what it promises, and promise what it can deliver.
10. A company will not seek to generate any revenue from practices that threaten life.

The Bombay Hub launch is only a week away

The Bombay Hub launch is only a week away and we wanted to share our invitation with you all. It is going to be an evening  full of games, speeches and music!! See the invitation below

Online dialogue on sustainability next Wednesday, June 24

Invitation Hub Sustainability Twitter Dialogue
Dear Hub members around the world,

The Hub Berlin  invites you to an online dialogue on sustainability next Wednesday on the June 24:

16:00 – 17:00 CET, Twitter Session on Sustainability @HUBBerlin
They will connect around sustainability to some of their almost 1000 followers. HUB Berlin will be hosting the first twitter session ever. Start following @HUBBerlin and get ready for the experience. You can follow all contributions via #sw09

Inspiring young people to change the world through business

18/06/2009

The European Commission has launched the “Your World, Your Business” campaign to encourage young people in schools to debate the role of enterprises in helping society and protecting the environment. At a time when economic models are questioned, the campaign, based on a film in which young entrepreneurs show how their firms are helping society, seeks to inspire young people to set up responsible businesses themselves.

more :http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/e_i/news/article_9082_en.htm

Ecouter : France Inter 30 05 2009 Monnaies complémentaires

La nouvelle couleur de l’argent

À Charlotte en Caroline du Nord, deuxième centre financier des États-Unis siège des deux plus grandes banques américaines Bank of America et Wachovia, le troc est de retour. Un troc à grande échelle.

 

Des sociétés spécialisées qui ressemblent à des banques se sont créées. Elles servent d’intermédiaires entre, par exemple, des traders désargentés et des restaurateurs en mal de clientèle pour échanger compétences informatiques des uns et bons repas des autres. Et tout cela sans que le moindre dollar ne circule.

 

Partout dans le monde, le troc refait surface mais pas seulement le troc.

De nouvelles monnaies se développent ou apparaissent, au Brésil, au Japon, en Suisse, en Allemagne, partout. On les appelle monnaies régionales, locales, complémentaires, alternatives ou libres. La crise financière leur redonne des couleurs. Ils sont de plus en plus nombreux à utiliser leur propre monnaie en marge des monnaies officielles, à l’échelle, d’une ville, d’un quartier, d’une communauté, et même d’un État pour continuer à vivre normalement.

 

http://ondemand.tv-radio.com/france_inter/RDE/RDE20090530.ram

Conference-debate on “How to build a positive economy” in Brussels

The Hub has developed a partnership with Positive-Economy, in the framework of their conference-debate on “How to build a positive economy”. The event will demonstrate how businesses can be run, while integrating social and environmental values into their core processes.

During the first part of the event, participants will hear testimonials from European entrepreneurs, followed by a debate on the building of a positive economy. After a networking lunch, workshop sessions will take place with practical case studies, such as corporate values sustainable reporting, industrial synergies, social economy model and global ecological process.

We would like to invite you to participate to this symposium. See the program here

This event is free for everyone.

A Bull Market in Social Entrepreneurs

Amid a woeful jobs market, Stanford grads are starting their own companies, many of them with hopes of changing the world

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