Now I know what I am - an institutional hacker

After I moved from journalism into the fuzzier fields of consultancy, facilitation and process design years back my mother used to say: "I understood your job when you were a reporter .... now I can't explain what you do to my friends". I still haven't got a good one-liner, but Paul Miller from Demos and The School of Everything may have cracked it for me.
He's picked up on our Open Innovation Exchange and the nomination for the New Media Awards:

Nick Booth (of the mighty Podnosh) has written more on David Wilcox's open source bid to the Office of the Third Sector. He's also nominated them for an award, which I think would be thoroughly well deserved.
Whether or not David and the collective win the bid or not, they've done something genuinely new. It's one of the neatest institutional hacks I've seen in a long time.

I now have the line ... used to be an old media hack, done a bit of new media hacking, now an institutional hacker. Thanks Paul!  Could you just repeat that over on the nominations site, please? Nick likes the term - need to check what Simon Berry, who did a lot of the real work, and the rest of the team think on the exchange site.

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