Gathering ’11 Podcast #05 — Interview with David Hood

Gathering ’11 was an event that brought together leading thinkers, change-makers and collaborators from across Australia and around the world to explore and develop ideas on how to solve today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges, together.

In this series of podcasts I interview the attendees about their personal experiences of Gathering ’11, as a way of exploring these topics further, and of continuing the conversation.

In this episode: David Hood. David is a social entrepreneur and instigator of Gathering ’11. He runs Doing Something Good, an enterprise fostering the development of impactful and resilient networks for social good. His vision is to support similar initiatives around the world. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

You can follow David (if you don’t already) on Twitter: @davidahood.

Yesterday, I met with David at Hub Melbourne to talk about the conception of the Gathering ’11; the experience of co-creating the event with others; his personal experience and learnings from the day and from developing the event; and future developments. There is some exciting stuff ahead folks!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:38 — 21.4MB)

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Episode Links

• Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
• Pete Williams’ 2010 TEDx Canberra Talk
• The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
• Gathering 11 Anthology Project
• The Abbotsford Convent

Credits: Intro music by Sic Alps / by-nc-sa

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