Marc Dangeard is the latest volunteer to further build a wiki on social capital/blended value started by HAAS students in conjunction with Socap08. The bloglist, relevant blogs on social enterprise and social investing is only one of his contributions.
A lot of people are using the socap08 tag to share their blog posts using delicious, here You can also subscribe to it in your RSS reader, like net news wire or blog lines, depending on your taste. Here’s one interesting post from the folks at Greenlights. “Having a day to begin to recover from the “firehose-to-mouth” effects of SoCap08, ideas are beginning to gel for me on how best to describe what I learned in a way that is useful to those who were not there and who might benefit from this translated knowledge.”
A great Acumen fund blog post by Sue Yun Chi says she saw a market forming in the hallways at Socap08. That was our goal and hope, so it’s nice to see some astute folks think we achieved it.
She tells the story of the conference really well:”
I arrived in San Francisco with a sense of foreboding from the current financial crisis, but it took only a moment at the Social Capital Markets conference in sunny San Francisco to change my outlook on the future. Although the conference may have started with 650 individuals with different agendas, what transpired over the course of the conference was a movement toward a cohesive social capital marketplace. As the second day drew to a close, I came away with a sense of inspiration and optimism.”
The blogosphere has been buzzing with reports and commentary on the SoCap08 conference.
Below is a round-up of the blog posts I have found that reflect on specific sessions and the SoCap08 experience as a whole.
I encourage you to click through and leave comments on the blog posts. Let’s keep the conversation going.
The Social Capital Index (SCI) created by GoodCap and now taken over by our friends and partners Jason Rissman and Andrea McGrath has gone live. It’s “a space to explore, clarify, and discuss the emerging social capital marketplace. SCI is an initiative of several social enterprise stakeholders, and together we are tracking the social capital market’s growth, trajectory, variety and market size. We are also collaborating with a growing community of interested stakeholders to increase the knowledge and insight around key questions and performance criteria that drive capital in this emerging marketplace.”
For those of us who plan to blog, stream, and tweet SoCap08 over the next few days, the online conversation and back-channel discussions will be as exciting as the conversations unfolding within the brick and mortar walls of the Fort Mason Center.
Below are ten ways to follow SoCap08 using social media:
The amazing team of bloggers Rob Katz of Next Billion.net has gathered is going to be blogging each session at Socap. “Each guest blogger has agreed to cover a panel session, ranging in title from Design in the Developing World to Successful IT Initiatives to Market Creators. Francisco and I will handle the plenary talks as well as a few sessions (I’ll be moderating the Venture Philanthropy and International Government Investment panel as well), ” Rob writes.
If you’re headed to SoCap, chime in below and let us know – we’d love to meet up while we’re there. Keep us posted on what you think of the sessions – who was on track, who off the mark, etc. And if you’re unable to join us in San Francisco, please let us know which panel sessions are important for you to hear about – we’ll do our best to tailor our coverage to the needs of you, the NextBillion reader.”
That pretty much blows me away.
At the intersection of money and meaning, Amy Benziger, Socap’s associate producer, tells the Socap story in her first TV appearance
Over the last several days, I’ve been putting together an informal blog team of people who plan to write about next week’s conference.
We are inviting SoCap08 attendees to write about their experiences on the conference floor and in the sessions. We’re also inviting bloggers who are watching SoCap08 unfold from afar.
Our goal is to provoke a distributed conversation about the current state and potential of social capital markets. We’ll be using the SoCap08 blog to disseminate frequent round-ups of blog entries that talk about the issues raised at SoCap08.
We’re expecting the conversation will take place on many blogs and in many forums, including the NextBillion.net blog and the All Things Reconsidered blog over at JustMeans.
Below is a list of people who have confirmed they will be submitting at least one blog entry before, during or following SoCap08.
As more people join the blog team, I’ll add them to this list. If you plan on blogging, and you are not listed above, post a comment below.
Special thanks to Rob Katz of NextBillion.net for recruiting 10+ experts to the blog team!
Note to bloggers: Please bookmark your blog entries on Delicious using the tag SoCap08
SoCap08’s web 2.0 team has created a widget to spread the word about next week’s conference. The widget includes a live feed of webpages bookmarked as SoCap08 using Delicious, Tweets that reference #SoCap08, and posts from the SoCap08 blog.
You can install the SoCap08 widget on your own website or blog. Click on share button below, and select where you would like to embed the widget.
