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7 hours ago by Rob Greenland

We had a great time at the I Love West Leeds festival on Saturday. Here's Francis enjoying some of the fun - a couple wandering round the Festival with a family of vegetables in a pram - which all needed looking after: It's a really well done festival - quirky and fun without being inaccesible and u ...

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12 hours ago by admin

Many institutions around the world are turning to microfinance both as a strategy to help lift the poor out of the poverty trap and to make a decent return on investment. While the business gains from lending money to those who earn only about one or two dollars a day may seem limited, some of the m ...

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16 hours ago by fredzimny

Artist Sabrina Raaf http://www.raaf.org/ Nice addition to Will social media kill off the intranet in years to come? Or is is a contradiction? Found at http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/06/how-to-build-collaborative-software-that-people-will-actually-use Image via Wikipedia Cross-posted from CloudAve b ...

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1 day ago by Mark Essel

Shores on the road to Hope (Alaska) The Tactics of Hope offers some inspired methods that illustrate how social entrepreneurs can connect with lenders and found businesses based on improving daily life. Pay careful attention to the financial loan structure described at 1min10seconds. Here crowd sour ...

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1 day ago by Small Business Reporter

1st Touch Builds On ROCC To Deliver Social Housing Technology Partnership Leading enterprise mobile workforce technology group, 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com) has signed a partnership agreement with software and services group ROCC (www.rocc.co.uk). As a resul… Personality - Business-Management busine ...

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2 days ago by Francis

The most recent research shows there are now at least 55,000 social enterprises in the UK, thats roughly 5% of all businesses with employees, contributing between them a combined turnover of £27 billion per year. The sector employs around 650,000 people. A survey of 15,000 social enterprises found o ...

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2 days ago by fredzimny

Consumer social media preferences Source: www.customerthink.com Related articles by Zemanta From social media to social business design: the medium is the message (fredzimny.wordpress.com) Facts and figures about social media suitable for your business, professional and personal life (fredzimny.word ...

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2 days ago

Early Registration (and 40% Discount) Ends July 8th This year’s SOCAP09 conference will offer three days (September 1-3) of rich content, over 100 speakers, and a special “unconference” day. In its second year, the Social Capital Markets conference brings together the broad ecosystem of capital (fun ...

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2 days ago

Early Registration (and 40% Discount) Ends July 8th This year’s SOCAP09 conference will offer three days (September 1-3) of rich content, over 100 speakers, and a special “unconference” day. In its second year, the Social Capital Markets conference brings together the broad ecosystem of capital (fun ...

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3 days ago by Sarah

NPR had an interesting article yesterday about The Extraordinaries, a new social entrepreneurship start-up that enables people to micro-volunteer through their mobile phones. I go back and forth about this concept, in part because it collides with many pre-concieved notions about my favorite types o ...

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