Our annual guide to the best social media, marketing, technology and media conferences in 2014, held in the United States and around the world.
social enterprise
A Success Summit for green business entrepreneurs
Are you a green business owner or social entrepreneur who believes you can make a positive impact in the world without going broke? Have you always longed to start a sustainable business, but you’re not quite sure how to do it or don’t know what you want to sell?
Whether you’re an aspiring social entrepreneur or already have a sustainable business you want to take to the next level, you’ll get valuable information just by attending this free virtual event series.
Outsourcing in a socially responsible way
I finally have time to get to my backlog of video interviews, after changing jobs earlier this month.
Here’s a 4-minute interview with Leila Chirayath, founder and CEO of Samasource, a nonprofit social enterprise in Silicon Valley that that connects small and mid-size businesses with individuals and firms in the developing world that can perform outsourcing work (such as data entry) in a socially responsible way.
They now have pilot programs in Kenya, Nepal and rural India, and their goal, as their website says, is “to catalyze sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation by creating a thriving, active market for socially responsible outsourcing to developing regions.”
Activism and the social enterprise
One of the extraordinary things about the Bay Area is the relative ease with which you can bring a large number of bright, passionate, committed people under the same roof. When it’s a bar, so much the better. And so it was earlier this evening when Sundeep Ahuja — a born connector and former marketing […]