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Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His idea is straightforward: he believe the Middle East/North Africa region is ripe for values-centered for-profit social enterprises that can both make plenty of money and deliver social benefits. Tags: social entrepreneurs Skoll SWF SWF10 social enterprise.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I urge social entrepreneurs and mission-driven businesses who have developed a solution that involves digital information to think about what Big Data will mean to their efforts: How can it make your services or products better, solve more of the problem, or do more with the same or less money?

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Any Facebook member involved in a project that needs funding can submit a proposal, outlining things like the problem they are addressing and where the money will go. At the end of the grant period, we tally the votes and distribute the money to the winner. Get the bit of code you need here What is SWF?

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