Chris Allwood: Want to change the world?

We launched the website for Chain Reaction yesterday - an event to bring people who wouldn't otherwise meet, together to change the world.  The idea is that people passionate about social change, from business, government and charity get together to find new ways of being effective.  It'll be on the 17th /18th November on the Southbank in London.

Our basic process is connect, collaborate and commit.  If you'd like to be part of it, please log on and register.  The focus is going is to be very much on the practical action to make these new ideas real.  It won't be the usual plenary then workshop style. We're going to have a few speakers and activities to get the creative juices going.  Then the focus is going to be on working on the best ideas that come out.  They'll be specialists in strategy, brands, marketing, research, digital media, etc.  Participants can choose what they want to get involved with, and then the groups around ideas can use all the resources available to get them going.

At the moment I'm trying to put together some of the technology we need.  Basically we want people to be able to SMS their ideas in to a website (and screen behind the speaker) and then a way of voting on which people think best.  If you have any contacts who could help us enable this, that'd be really useful.