Tagged ‘Steve Spillman’

August 13th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the PBS television show “Sesame Street” (@sesamestreet), is teaming up ...

August 6th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Remember Vélib, the pilot bike-sharing experiment in Paris that’s been replicated in cities around the world?  ...

July 30th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Social media news blog Mashable (@mashable) informed us about this brash new website that had flown ...

July 23rd, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Google (@google) announced this week that it's purchasing 20 years’ worth of wind energy to power ...

July 16th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Trendspotters PSFK (@psfk) alerted us to news that New York City is gearing up to launch one of ...

July 2nd, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: The Guardian's Michael Brunton-Spall (@bruntonspall) reported from the Activate Summit in London that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s ...

June 25th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: Twitter cofounder Biz Stone (@biz) this week announced a new company-run account (@hope140) dedicated to "highlighting ...

June 18th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the past week: Big news! As the Chronicle of Philanthropy (@Philanthropy) noted, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett ...

June 11th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of tweets from the past week: In the wake of an environmental disaster, thinkers, activists, artists and business people convene to make sense of things ...

June 4th, 2010By No Comments

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week. Last week, a group of private philanthropists and foundations, including the Skoll Foundation, added $45 million to ...