Twitter and the Social Entrepreneur — Social Edge. This weekend, I joined Mike Del Ponte and Rimas Silkaitis from Sparkseed for a teleseminar on "How to use Twitter for Social Entrepreneurship." Rimas shared how to use Twitter for personal branding and ...Read More
trendwatching.com's May 2009 Trend Briefing covering INNOVATION JUBILATION. So this isn't exactly all related to social innovation/enterprises (although there some cool bicycle and green companies in here), but I think it is interesting to see some new biz models out there ...Read More
On the second panel at ASE, leaders from Ashoka and Guidestar are talking about a variety of issues. One of the issues that has come up is that people increasingly desire nonprofits to have more transparency. Groups like Guidestar and ...Read More
Be unreasonable and fix the world | The Jakarta Post. In times of financial crisis, many businesses do what is considered perfectly reasonable: Lay off workers, cut costs and wait until things get better. Setting up a new enterprise in the middle ...Read More
How To Save Money as an African Startup - Appfrica. Jason Calacanis recently wrote a blog post entitled “How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)” that got me thinking. Does any of this apply to my business ...Read More
The clean-car promise of Better Place | Electric evangelist | The Economist. Image by jdlasica via Flickr Good article from the economist continuing to raise the profile of Better Place, Shai Agassi and their ambitious goals. ...Read More
Cow dung isn't usually thought of as house-building material, but a team of students from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia have managed to build high-quality, low-cost bricks from the stuff. The team's invention, dubbed "EcoFaeBrick", won the $25,000 top ...Read More
Would You Live in a House Made of Sh*t? | Sustainability | Fast Company. Cow dung isn't usually thought of as house-building material, but a team of students from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia have managed to build high-quality, low-cost ...Read More
The Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs - BusinessWeek. Now, meet the winners: No. 1 With 36% of the vote, online bookseller Better World Books led the pack. The 200-person company makes money selling books it gets for free from a network of individuals ...Read More
No one has had a chance to really check this out yet, but there is a new Social Enterprise magazine that is soon to be released by Intellecap. I'll be getting a subscription to check it out and will blog ...Read More