Watch this 9 minute interview with SVT Founding Partner, Sara Olsen, filmed during SoCap08. Sara discusses social enterprises and “gourmet carbon” work conducted by Patricia Ruiz Corzo’s Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda in Mexico.
‘Gourmet carbon’ in Mexico from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
Chris Morrison of Venture Beat wrote an interesing piece exporling the emerging phenomena of blended value business in the context of SoCap08 and Good Capital.
“While most philanthropic ventures still operate solely as non-profits, there’s a growing niche for the new breed. That’s because, as Elizabeth Funk of Unitus put it while speaking at the conference, “greed is one of the fundamental drivers of humanity.” For-profit businesses have a drive that was long ago lost in the sprawling bureaucracies of traditional aid groups.”
Greed as a potential driver of good - agree or disagree?
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.
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.
