Social Innovation Camp unfortunately haven’t selected Partner Up as one of their final proposals, so it’s time to take this forward by another route. Thanks to John Craig, PRADSA, School for Social Entrepreneurs, David Wilcox and others for all your positive comments and offers of support. There’s definitely some momentum to this one and it would be a shame to lose it.
The trouble is, I really don’t have time to lead the project myself, just to provide ideas, positive energy and design direction. So the next question is, who’s interested in taking the project forward? UnLtd World, the Office of the Third Sector, the Charity Commission, Companies House, Innovation Exchange – please step forward. There are hundreds of charities, social enterprises, public bodies and commercial companies who need ways of working together, and maybe we can help them.
So please, steal this idea! Drop me a line at andy[at]sociability.org.uk if you’re interested in “partnering up”, or leave a comment here.
26 March, 2008 at 11:41 am |
Hi Andy – this is a great idea!
We actually have a feature on UnLtdWorld, which aims to address that need. It’s called Neighbours, and dynamically matches members and content based on different parametres of similarity.
We will also soon be releasing APIs through the UnLtdWorld Research Lab which will also help to inform and facilitate targeted connection relevantly.
In parallel to all this we will be opening up UnLtdWorld always more to allow value to be shared and used externally to the site.
Do feel free to send any ideas on how you think we could improve these tools or for new features.
14 April, 2008 at 2:24 am |
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27 November, 2008 at 11:30 am |
Hey, look – turns out someone’s done it already!
http://www.partnerup.com/