Just imagine .....

.....what our lives would have been like without that first Mac experience in the early 1980's, or the fun of an iPod, iPad or iPhone app which plays our favourite songs, films, shares our ideas, and our twitters. As a society we have embraced and fallen in love with all this funky technology which barely registers on our psyche anymore as we flip, slide and tap away -- all day, everyday. Behind this fun and inventiveness was an entrepreneur -- a thinker that was not bound by convention, or the limitations of the known.

We all acknowledge former Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs for his enormous and unparallelled contribution to the way we interact online, store our photos, and do our business. Steve Jobs stands tall in his achievements but not alone.

There are many examples of pure inventiveness, entrepreneurship, and unbounded thinkers amongst the social enterprise sector. Examples such as the two retired farmers who used the income from a section of farmland to begin and maintain an emergency response unit, when no State or Federal government would kick in the funding. Such as the community who invested in the only petrol station in town to keep the town alive and thriving. And such as the development of high-tech mailing and printing equipment to engage young people in fulfilling employment. Such as, such as.......

The list continues across every community, region and sector. Have a think about some of your own inventiveness, or others you know of. Come on over to the Social Traders facebook page and lets bring these entrepreneurs to light.

The end of the year is only a few weeks from now. From all at Social Traders we wish you a peaceful time and fabulous new year.


Jessica @ Social Traders