*Note: I'm not currently accepting freelance gigs--building Purpose Portfolio has me pretty much at capacity :) Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a line if I can help find the right designer for your project. `sj
Infographic | Pie-in-the-sky imagining of a "leapfrog" tech incubation space in emerging markets
Some of the best social media advice I've heard came from David Jay at SoCAP09: "Don't just talk about yourself, talk about the world and show that you're listening." Here are 4 simple ways to start:
One of the greatest strengths any social entrepreneur can build is an ability and commitment to "associate closely" with ALL the sectors; to get beyond the semantics and the status quo and focus on solutions.
Many of the most disruptive social innovations of all time have been playpuses--unexpected, even illogical ideas that reasonably shouldn't exist.
Talk to people. Share with them, ask for feedback, let your idea have a life. The chance of someone actually stealing it is a tiny price to pay for what you’ll gain by talking to people about it.
They tell you that it always takes twice as long and costs twice as much as you think it will. They’re wrong. So far I’m thinking it’s more like 3-5 times as long.
Today's networking is all about building layers of connection and reciprocity...less transaction, more legitimate network. Here are some ideas on how.
From Geoff Wolley (of HuntsmanGay Capital Impact) keynote at the BYU Economic Self-Reliance Conference
I don't think I have ever heard someone say they want to "do" social entrepreneurship...or "work in" it...or "try" it. The language of social entrepreneurship is fundamentally different. They want to BE.
I didn't catch anything else as they walked away, but it made me smile, and I wondered if perhaps I'd just witnessed what Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green calls a "moment of obligation."
Like junkies, successful change agents fixate on their cause. They crave it, sacrifice for it, and are willing to expend ever greater effort, against ever greater odds, to move it forward.
