This is how David Halpern describes the focus of work that examines and values the role of social capital in our communities. …
Can One Story Change the World?
Jon Voss of Historypin.org presents “Can One Story Change the World?” at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
Buttons User Testing
Summary of the user testing of the latest prototype of Buttons carried out by the Tinder Foundation with 17 UK …
Citizen Science and Mobile Phone Cameras as Tools for Monitoring World Heritage
Early research on a proposed project to combine citizen science techniques and photo gathering to examine and monitor the aging …
Chicken Shops: Fuelling London’s Youth
Infographic on the prevalence and effect of fast food outlets Tori Flower and Kate Ferrier
Chicken Shops and Poor Diets
Summary of research findings including behavioural observation, survey of young people, local environment mapping, ethnography, chicken shop business profiling Tori …
Box Chicken Launch
Hadrian Garrard from Create London and Nick Stanhope discuss the need for practical interventions to tackle poor diets at the launch of Box Chicken, a pilot of a healthy fast food outlet.
Progress still battles prejudice when it comes to mental health
In April this year, as part of our three-year partnership with the Nominet Trust, we set out on 12 months of …
Our obsession with chicken shops
Earlier this year, I wrote about our early obesity research, through which we started looking at the way that the …
Historypin share their top tips
Historypin is a suite of online tools designed to help museums, libraries and community groups share their collections of archived materials (e.g. historic photos) with as wide an audience as possible…
5 reasons why business models suit behaviour change
Business models don’t suit every social mission. As Dan Pallotta says in his March 2013 TED Talk, “social business needs …
Prompting, nudging and facilitating less food waste
Every year in the UK, we throw away almost 20% of the food we buy, which contributes to the even …
Real corporate responsibility is about making less money
2012 wasn’t a good year for corporate responsibility. As society continued to reel from the effects of the global recession, …
Research from Libraries, Archives & Museums on Historypin
We’re fortunate to work with many cultural heritage partners who are putting a lot of thought and research into the ways they can share their collections with the world, from physical exhibitions to digital engagement strategies, and everything in between…
Infographic: The Truth About Food Waste
Infographic showing scale of domestic food waste and relative environmental impact of food waste and food packaging. Tori Flower and …
Unconditional Leadership
David Robinson eloquently and honestly distils 35 years experience of starting and building inspiring local, national and international charities and social enterprises, drawing out lessons on unleashing people’s potential that have application across business and government.
He Has Done a Lot for Charity
Last week’s Livestrong 15th Anniversary event in Austin, Texas, looked like an odd occasion. Everyone there seemed pretty sure that …
Overweight by default
We’ve spent a good chunk of the last year looking at how our approach to behaviour change can play a …
Society of American Archivists Keynote
Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director at Historypin, during opening plenary of the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, August 9, 2012. This is audio of the talk together with slides.
I’m Still a Plastic Bag
Our 2007 I’m Not a Plastic Bag project with Anya Hindmarch was, at the time, hugely successful. We applied our product-centric …
Before it’s too late
There is always someone in the family that knows everything, who recognises every face in every old picture, who could tell you where they were taken and what the occasion was, who could narrate an old family film to within an inch of its life…
The end of volunteering
People supporting their communities and making meaningful contributions to society without being paid is something that we all want loads …
Us and the Other Us
As part of our ongoing research on the Incidental Effect, we’re working our way through another huge array of books, …
Enjoyable things for local communities to do together
The After the Riots report from the Riots Communities and Victims Panel was a really good example of how to emerge …
LODLAM State of Affairs
Article on the community evolving around Linked Open Data in libraries, archives and museums. Jon Voss
Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web
This paper examines how a cultural, technological, and legal environment is enabling a growing ecosystem of open historical data. Published …
Digital inclusion is ideal for an incidental approach
In the middle of three new launches of our Internet Buttons project into Ireland, Poland and Holland, we’ve been struck, again, …
Pinning Reading’s History: Evaluation Report
Analysis of the social impact of Pinning Reading’s History, a project in Reading, UK, with data and analysis from the …
Impact Infographic
Depiction of the social impact of Pinning Reading’s History, a project in Reading, UK, with data and analysis from the …
The nudge potential of mobile payments
Starbucks Corp CEO, Howard Schultz, described the arrival of mobile payments as part of a “seismic change” in consumer behaviour. For …
Too important to make lots of money from
I’ve had lots of e-mails, tweets and a few calls from journalists asking for a bit more explanation on something …
A bit of new radicalism
It has been great for We Are What We Do to be included in the Britain’s New Radicals list, launched …
Facebook “built to accomplish a social mission”
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent letter to shareholders illustrated once again that, while the world is obsessed with the wealth generated by …
Playing social change
Despite being interested from a distance for some time, we have only just started to explore the potential of gaming …
Opinion: Considering SOPA in Cultural Heritage
I’m guessing you’ve already heard of the two bills that have been introduced before Congress in the United States, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House…
Customer service can change the world
We’ve just started working with Sky on some internal leadership events that they run each year and, once again, my …
Isn’t everybody using the internet?
Infographic showing digital exclusion figures across Europe, plus affected audience groups and barriers. Tori Flower and Kate Ferrier
The Incidental Effect
Hello. This first one is going to be very short, because what it refers to is quite long and I …
Mapping in the 4th dimension TEDxNHH
Nick talks atTEDx NHH, hosted by the Historypin Norwegian School of Economics, in Bergen.
Funding Historypin
Sincethe launch of Historypin in New York July this year, we’ve been blown away by people’s response to it…
The State of Intergenerational Relations
Infographic illustrating the growing inter-generational divide, the growing ageing population, and prevalence of loneliness amongst the elderly. Tori Flower and …
The Incidental Effect
Paper exploring new methods in behaviour change.By Nick Stanhope
Smithsonian Institution talk on Linked Open Data
Jon Voss addresses the Smithsonian Institute and explores the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world’s libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future.
Reconnecting
Paper exploring new methods in behaviour change. David Robinson