... will now be able to tap into Chatter’s API to build social enterprise apps off of platform. While Chatter looks and feels like a social network for ... s happening I can go back to the particular area that I care about and see what’s Going on. And doing that all in, not only delivering a social application, but delivering a platform To allow the entire industry to innovate and bring that ...

... The Industry Standard. The blog is called "The Social Enterprise," and it's all about how companies and large organizations ... Google Apps to Second Life. Naturally, there is also a big focus on social networks. For instance, this week I had a chance to write ... executives are taking pains to call it something else -- a "social platform," or, as carefully noted by Salesforce ...

... and selling your product or service. The first stage of the project is to map all the social enterprises working across Birmingham. Over the coming weeks we will be ... providers work in partnership, they are both working towards the same outcomes! If you are interested in finding out more, or are a social enterprise and would like to ensure your organisation is included in the mapping of the sector ...

The Prime Minister thanked champions of social enterprise as research suggested the sector is pulling through the recession more strongly than other businesses. Representatives of various projects were invited to Number 10 as winners of the Social Enterprise Awards were announced. Gordon Brown told the visitors: "I want to use two words that we ...

Do you think you could live your life purchasing only from social enterprises? Alex Sobel from Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber did – at least for 30 days. With a bit of planning and a stroke of luck he managed to only spend money on social enterprises for 1 month. Check it out here. Posted in Fun

Redbean - here is another instalment in my series of fabulous and interesting people I met at Social Enterprise World Forum in Melbourne recently. Social Enterprises are one of the fastest growing business sectors on the planet. A passion for the people of world and our environment combined with ...

Clement writes about The Big Issue project in Malawi: “This project is affiliated to the Big Issue, London. It has the same objective of working as a social enterprise to fight poverty and homelessness by providing business and creative solutions through selling of The Big Issue magazine.”

Salesforce.com launched a social enterprise application here at Dreamforce today that will allow companies to create their own private, social networks and integrate with Twitter, Facebook ... is shared on a social network like Facebook. This has to be one of the more significant developments in how the enterprise is adopting the consumer web. It's another sign of the pervasiveness of social ...

Social entrepreneurs seek to change the world. Dedicating their lives to solving problems such as poverty, malnourishment, and homelessness, they do not measure their success by annual revenues, but by overall social impact. Possessed by their ideas to solve society's most pressing issues, they do not stop until they have changed the system and initiated wide-scale change.

... . Their goal is to alleviate poverty or confront social ills by offering solutions through the vehicle of enterprise. These entrepreneurs should be encouraged to emerge and act on their ideas. In an economy like Zambia, there of course many challenges for social entrepreneurs one of them being the fact that most of them do not have a steady income and, therefore, are more ...