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This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; and how to end poverty. It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across different sectors - the public and private sectors, civil society and the household - in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations to document the many methods currently being used around the world.

Akarru is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like www.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.

Contractual Agent Societies: Negotiated shared context and social control in open multi-agent systems Chrysanthos Dellarocas Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Dell@mit.edu

Contractual Agent Societies: Negotiated shared context and social control in open multi-agent systems Chrysanthos Dellarocas Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Dell@mit.edu

This will be a profoundly social economy, built on unprecedented capabilities to self-organize people and resources in the crowd. Social media will connect ideas, people, and institutions across porous boundaries that blur the inside/outside distinctions of yesterday 's companies and government agencies. Network connections will be the distribution channels across market sectors and radical transparency will be the new norm.

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gnizr™ (gə-nīzər) is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized del.icio.us-like portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify and share information, and to mash-it-

fuzzzy is the social bookmarking and networking site for web science academics, web professionals and web enthusiasts. If you do research and/or development of web centric systems then this is the site for you.

Talkie, a game designer based in Los Angeles, is making a new social game, akin to Zynga's "FarmVille" or "CityVille," that they hope will encourage their players to get out of their chairs and have a positive impact on their environments.

The Great Transformation was first published in 1944, it deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy

deep models for understanding systems and social resilience

One can be a B Corps and yet be incorporated legally as a C corporation, an LLC, even a sole proprietorship. In other words, a company can be certified as a B Corps without ever incorporating as a benefit corporation * One can be a benefit corporation under Maryland law without being a B Corps. The Maryland law does not require that benefit corporations be certified as B Corps. Rather, it requires that benefit corporations' social and environmental performance be assessed by an independent third party that makes publicly available or accessible the following information: 1. The factors considered when measuring the performance of a business; 2. The relative weightings of those factors; and 3. The identity of the persons who developed and control changes to the standard and the process by which those changes were made. The key difference is that the law requires a third party assessment, whereas B Corps is a certification.

In a Design Journal article (Wood, 1990) I argued that "the entrepreneur; fixer, trouble shooter and exploiter should give way to the more socially responsible entredonneur; the giver, not the taker." One way in which we use the term is in creating a continuum that reconciles the 'entrepreneur' with the 'entredonneur' (see fig. x). This device enables us to chart a gradient of values with 'taking' at one end, and 'giving' at the other.

Drawing from seven decades of movement-building experience, Grace Lee Boggs shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities.

Facebook is harnessing the power of the social graph, and has certainly adopted an expanded definition of what 'currency' means. It's time for the rest of us to hop on board.

tools and behaviors that are developing to make economic exchange, transactions, payments, commerce, distributed collaboration, resource allocation, and social enterprise formation as frictionless and fluid as possible.