107 year old ‘Olive’ starts a blog - now that’s web community & innovation!
Fresh from my posting about university students, I saw this on www.Digg.com the news ranking site.
The world’s oldest blogger… this lady has a very entertaining (and pictorial) blog.
“My name is Olive Riley. I live in Australia near Sydney. I was born in Broken Hill on Oct. 20th 1899.Broken Hill is a mining town, far away in the centre of Australia. My Friend, Mike, has arranged this blog for me. He is doing the typing and I am telling the stories.”
read Olive’s Blog | digg story
A very entertaining read, and to be honest, far more interesting than the usual spate of negativity on the news. She has help from what I can assume is a web developer, Mike, as the blog is professional. Good job!
A positive innovation, in ending social disconnection, which was one of the themes in our global innovation research, allowing people to read others experiences is a powerful community-creating technique, an antidote to social disconnection.
So Web Community is not just Uni students and idealists/innovator/early adopter types.
I think that’s what I mean when I say a global innovation conversation — positive social change… a conversation about people’s lives, that is Web Community (what all the techs call Web 2.0) It is NOT about the technology, it’s about USING it.
There you go. Good on you olive! And if Olive can do it why not you?
I like to see positive social change, positive life experiences, people’s lives and stories.
Christopher
Speaker. Author. Editor-In-Chief. Executive Director of Innovation, 2thinknow.
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