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March 25th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: Many social entrepreneurs are setting out to tackle problems that have traditionally been the domain of the ...

March 18th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: The founder of Craigslist has a new labor of love: Craigconnects, where he will be blogging about ...

March 11th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: If you’re considering starting a venture that will provide social benefits, but not sure whether to make ...

March 4th, 2011By Comments (1)

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: Human-centered design work is at the center of companies like the well-known firm IDEO, which employs a ...

February 25th, 2011By Comments (1)

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: In an innovative attempt to update its country’s access to technology, the Rwandan government is pioneering the ...

February 18th, 2011By Comments (1)

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: After over three decades under the rule of Mubarak, Egypt has entered a new era -- one ...

February 11th, 2011By Comments (2)

Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: The latest annual Lemelson-MIT Index, which gauges Americans' perceptions about invention and innovation, indicates a need to ...

February 7th, 2011By Comments (3)

PROBLEM: While some applaud the power of social media to create social change, others doubt that information and discussion moves users to action. This fall, Malcolm Gladwell took a strong stand against the role of social media in changemaking, stating that connections formed ...

February 4th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: Nominations are open now through March 31st for PopTech’s Social Innovation Fellows program. Between ten and ...

January 28th, 2011By 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 interesting tweets from the last week: Philanthroper is a newly-launched site modeled after the “daily deal” site GroupOn, but instead of getting ...