FYI: Creating a New, Networked Mindset
| "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington CarverWhat is Social Entrepreneurship?Statement of Faith You can find other "Market with Meaning" but you definitely want to see "Profit with Purpose". I personally "Believe in Kingdom Transformation" because I know there is only ONE "Life for Significant". --- 2009年10月30日 星期五，Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 寫道﹕
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Social sector leaders are using Web 2.0 tools, but these tools are only the beginning of the story. The deeper news is how social media tools are engendering a new, networked mindset characterized by openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action. Nonprofit organizations that are adapting the networked mindset are finding exciting opportunities to expand their leverage and impact. In this talk from the recent Nonprofit Management Institute, Heather McLeod Grant uses new research from the Monitor Institute, in partnership with the Packard Foundation, to offer a strategic framework that helps nonprofit leaders assess the effectiveness of their networks. She also shares illuminating case studies of nonprofits' experiences operating with the new networked mindset. 
Neither those who knew the debonair young Fazle Abed nor Abed himself would have imagined how the course of his life would change forever with the deadly cyclone that hit Bangladesh in 1970. Killing as many as 500,000, the event was profound in its impact, devastating the lives of more than 3 million people, leading ultimately to the bloody liberation of Bangladesh, and launching one Shell Oil executive on an entirely new career path. In Freedom from Want, Ian Smillie chronicles the life and times of the newly formed nation of Bangladesh, its largely impoverished people, and an organization that would come to master both the art and science of development. Told as a laudatory case history, the book proceeds predictably. Smillie begins by ... 
PopTech, the vaunted thoughtfest that annually gathers some of the world's leading social innovators in the coastal hamlet of Camden, Maine, just wrapped up its 2009 conference after mulling an uncharacteristically unglobal theme: America and the challenges it faces domestically in the early years of this new century. Called America Reimagined, the conference featured more than 50 artists, writers, musicians, technologists, and social entrepreneurs—all of whom are creating or leading bold new civic, economic, technological and cultural initiatives in the United States. The sessions were designed to explore how major forces are reshaping the idea of America, its government's contract with its citizens, its brand, and its role in the world. "The thing about the kinds of moments we are living in right now is that they are often filled with conflicting and confusing signals," conference curator Andrew Zolli said in opening remarks. "Is it possible for us as a country, economically and technologically, politically and culturally, to reinvent ourselves?" 
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