10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media | Organic-Life.co.cc. Reposted from www.organic-life.co.cc Editor’s note: This is a post by Max Gladwell. Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President. Our children will inherit ...Read More
via Kernot: Where is Australia’s social innovation? by Cheryl Kernot Contrary to the best instincts of many, our economic system has been dominated by a system which measures value creation in only one dimension — financial impact, profit and loss. We are surrounded by the ...Read More
Social Actions on one hand is an aggregator of social actions consolidating opportunities to be involved from organizations like Kiva, Global Giving, Climatepath and more than 50 others (check them out here) and on the other hand, they are an ...Read More
This website (actually the map aspect of it) recently won the Change the Web Challenge and is similar to Kiva's investor map that we saw during their presentation. I think the site itself is worth checking out in addition to ...Read More
Acumen Fund Blog · Not a Load of Bull: Acumen Fund Makes its First Livestock Investment. “This looks just like South Jersey!” In true Acumen fashion, I had an “Aha” moment driving through rural Punjab on the way to see Acumen ...Read More
Book Review: In the River They Swim Where does this title come from? Why rivers and swimming? I wondered about these questions as I opened a copy of "In the River They Swim: Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions ...Read More
EurActiv.com - Expert: Eastern Europe 'way ahead' in entrepreneurship education | EU - European Information on Enterprise & Jobs. As with everything, Europe is leading the way despite left leaning governments that don't necessarily spark the same entrepreneurial zeal as the ...Read More
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently over 12,000 members and more than 1,800 charter members ...Read More
Noteworthy that they made this announcement through their blog: "Yesterday, the President announced that he would ask Congress in the FY2010 budget to provide $50 million in seed capital for his Social Innovation Fund, fulfilling a campaign pledge. The Fund will identify ...Read More
First Lady Michelle Obama outlined education, health care and economic opportunity as three focus areas for the administration’s efforts to promote social innovation and entrepreneurship as a means to solve some of the nation’s problems. Those themes will key the $50 ...Read More