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What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Can Teach Us About Building a Tech for Good Product

By Joe Roberson

Holmes and Watson in tech for good adventure

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as creator of the world’s first super-sleuth – Sherlock Holmes. But what’s less well known is he was also an incredibly versatile writer who could turn his hand to … [Read more...] about What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Can Teach Us About Building a Tech for Good Product

Filed Under: Bid Writing, Copywriting, Tech for Good Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, Audience building, bid writing, copywriting, funding, Pitching, product, Sherlock, tech for good

4 Reasons Why Human Centred Design Trumps User Participation

By Joe Roberson

Human centred design in a nutshell

It’s easy to criticise health and social care services for how they involve users in their service improvement work. To criticise them for when their user participation is tokenistic, or when they … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons Why Human Centred Design Trumps User Participation

Filed Under: Tech for Good Tagged With: empathy, human centred design, service design, user participation

The Secret Method for Selling Your Tech for Good Product

By Joe Roberson

Selling doesn’t come naturally to us folk on a social mission. We’d rather write a funding bid or even an investment proposal. Maybe that’s because selling can feel coercive, or maybe we lack … [Read more...] about The Secret Method for Selling Your Tech for Good Product

Filed Under: Tech for Good Tagged With: business model, financial value, momo, progressively, sales, selling, triple helix

3 things I did to create an award-winning tech for good startup

By Joe Roberson

momo app startup

Six months ago I quit my job running the serial award winning tech for good startup Mind Of My Own. In the four years since founding it we’d launched 3 major products, won 6 awards, sold the app to … [Read more...] about 3 things I did to create an award-winning tech for good startup

Filed Under: Digital, Tech for Good Tagged With: business models, momo, pareto, startup, tech for good

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