Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Blogger creates trouble!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Late breaking news from the Gathering. Yours truly clearly ticked off our articulate and thought provoking keynote speaker, Carl Schramm, the head of the Kauffman Foundation. Carl's foundation is the foundation for entrepreneurship.

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Disabled Students Need Accessible Books: On Huffpo!

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The Huffington Post recently invited me to become a guest blogger, based on a connection to Arianna Huffington from the Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camp. HuffPo recently published my first post, Disabled Students Need Accessible Books.

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Social Enterprise Summit Blogging Contest Winners Announced

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Great to see two social enterprise bloggers, Kylie Eastley of Tasmania and Tristan Pollock from Minnesota, won Halle Tecco's contest on Huffington Post to go to the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit later this month in San Francisco.

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Bookshare and the Power of We

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Blog Action Day is today, October 15, and the international community of bloggers is blogging about this year’s theme, The Power of We. Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies.

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Davos Flavor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last night I went to the Blogger's nightcap at a hotel at the eastern end of Davos. The Congress Center is in the middle, and that's where the big events happen. But many other events are scattered around the hotels of Davos, and it can take 25 or 30 minutes to walk between the most far flung ones.

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Serendipity and Twitter

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Nathaniel Whittemore (the Change.org social entrepreneurship blogger) pitches June Cohen of the TED conference to pull together TEDxVolcano impromptu conference for the next day: Sunday! The airports in the UK closed near the end of the Skoll Forum, and many of us headed off last Saturday for London to ponder our next moves.

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I have been tapped to write for the BBC website as well as a guest blogger for the Forum. I am heading off to Davos for my third World Economic Forum meeting. So, expect my posts on the BeneBlog to be a little more frequent as I post these. Here's my first Forumblog.org post: Packing up.

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