Survey – How do you use social media?
June 18th, 2010 § 0
We are conducting a survey on how changemakers (social entrepreneurs, NGOs, foundations, social businesses…) use social media.
Our aim is to improve our understanding of your needs in order to create tools that will suit you.
No personal data is asked, the survey takes between 3 and 4 minutes to be filled.
To fill the survey go here.
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10 Social Enterprises in India on Facebook!
June 16th, 2010 § 0
1. RangDe RangDe is a peer-to-peer web based portal where you can lend (not donate) money to the needy, starting Rs. 100! A brilliant concept. Join over 2000 fans here!
2.Eko Aspire Foundation works on the fundamental premise of giving everyone a bank account.They reach the deepest strands of the society via mobile technology....
Social Entrepreneurship in India: Triggering a homecoming?
June 16th, 2010 § 2
‘Brain Drain’? Haven’t we all written long, impetuous and passionate essays on how the youth should be ‘patriotic’ and give back to the nation. While the positives and negatives of brain drain are debatable, the term in itself has faded from textbooks and is reminiscent of a decade gone by.
Diminishing lines
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SocEnt of the Week:Vortex- ATMs for Rural India
June 7th, 2010 § 0
ATMs – Automatic Teller Machines turned the conventional procedural banking, upside down after their advent nearly a decade ago in India. Queues disappeared and so did the haggling one had to incur in getting cash after office hours. The added security of not carrying cash now provided seamless access to cash; 24×7x365. While the phenomenon...
Magic “baguettes”
June 7th, 2010 § 1
From Hue, Vietnam
‘Pains au chocolat’, lemon tarts, Flamandes, baguettes, chocolate cakes … welcome to La Boulangerie de Hue, a bakery a bit special. The “Bou” is an organization founded 10 years ago by the AEVN (an organization helping Vietnamese children) to provide training in baking and pastry to disadvantaged young Vietnamese from the city of...
Entrepreneurship in India #7 : jugaad and miracles
June 4th, 2010 § 1
“And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them.” Aravind Adiga The White Tiger.
And maybe it is because of this scarcity that there are so many entrepreneurs in India. As Manuel, a Colombian social entrepreneur,...
Entrepreneurship in India #5 : Can you break the rule?
May 27th, 2010 § 0
Orlando Rincon, a successful Colombian entrepreneur, once explained to me that his country is packed with entrepreneurs because Colombians “have a great capacity to break the rules”.
Which rules? He did not mean that we shall not abide by the law. He was talking about norms. An entrepreneur should free himself from the norms to find...
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