Not sure whether you have come across the crowd funding website, Kickstarter. Founded in the USA in 2009 it provides a channel to raise funds for creative projects. As of yesterday, it had raised over USD507 million for 37,065 projects out of just under 89,000 launched projects.

This month Make Happy turned the grand old age of 3. They say all good things come in threes, like Back to the Future films, members of Destiny’s Child, Fifty Shades of Grey books (ahem not that we’ve read them)…so it got us to thinking about putting together some top three lists of our favourite things on the internet. So here they are in all their threesome glory:

WOW! transformation, a talent development consulting firm that helps optimize the return on your talent investment has a brilliant blog that is worth keeping a close eye on for insights into improving your business. We follow it regularly but this month’s post on employee engagement really caught our eye.

We were delighted to hear that scattered amongst the blockbusters nominated for the 85th Academy Awards are three Kickstarter financed short films. Inocente, Kings Point and Buzkashi Boys managed to raise more that $90,000 from 558 backers on the funding platform that helps all kinds of creative projects become a reality.

We were thrilled to see past clients, Bloomsbury Flowers, feature in a fascinating article and accompanying video on The Guardian this week.

We are excited to see that CPSI have just announced their 2013 international conference, to be held in Buffalo, NY, on June 20-23 2013, focusing on creativity, innovation and change movement.

So 2012 is nearly over. And what a year it’s been.