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Data is the Platform: UnLtdWorld
Hi everyone!
I'm new on NetSquared and thought it might be a good idea to use this first post to introduce the work we're doing at UnLtdWorld around free, open and accessible data, hoping that many members of this community will find this of interest, especially those working on social entrepreneurship.
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Social Enterprise and Technology
I'm a social enterprise research consultant at the University of British Columbia, and I'm also working with Vancity Credit Union in Vancouver, British Columbia on accountability frameworks for social enterprise.
I'm interested in hearing about how social enterprises are using technology to improve their impact and performance. If anyone has an interesting stories or case studies - please don't hesitate to fire them my way.
I also host a minimalist blog on the topic here. Stop by and give me your two cents. I try to be provocative and to the point.
100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.
Technology Vision:
We want to make it dead simple for social entrepreneurs to integrate amazing online media into their sites and to find an audience interested in their stories. Our media platform is built on Wordpress MU, SimplePie RSS, and a variety of web services like Amazon S3. We use a process called “assisted podcasting” to enable even the least tech saavy, busiest social innovator to tell their personal story online by recording podcasts with their ordinary telephone.
We are developing a system enabling organizations to not only create their own content for their web sites, but to simultaneously pull in relevant feeds and stories from other organizations and sites.
xigi.net
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Think of xigi (ziggy) as the Bloomberg of the emerging capital market for good. It provides news, research, analytical tools and due diligence for investors and wealth managers who care about financial and social impact in their decision-making.
Village the Game: Play the World of Social Enterprise
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Village is an online world and strategy game designed to get people addicted to third world development. Form a team, build sustainable enterprises that eradicate poverty, and discover the power you have to transform the real world.
Three Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Web Site
Three Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Web Site - Putting a calendar on your Web site can be a great way to keep supporters up-to-date on important events, meetings, and deadlines. All you need is an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a bit of spare time.
This caught my attention because I see it's more like an events diary than a calandar. It's available as a module in DotNetNuke as I suspect it is in most CMS products.
In fact my own organisation uses such a product, not to keep track of our events but as a revenue generating facilities management product which yeilds the funds needed to maintain our human rights advocacy.
