The CauseWired Round-up
By Tom Watson on November 19, 2008No Comment
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AdWeek study: "Think you know the neatly apportioned media-consumption habits of today's Americans? Consider these snapshots from the country's heartland last month."
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"…for every social challenge there is a solution if we look hard enough and willing to innovatively apply existing technologies to our social quagmire. And most importantly, start on that project. Do not wait for funding that may never come."
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Recession questions, housing bailouts, stock market tumbles, growing job losses — faced with troubling economic news at seemingly every turn, many Americans' first thoughts may be of their own finances before charitable giving.
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Ahava Zarembski: "It’s time to face facts. The world under globalization is becoming leaner and leaner – a process now exacerbated by the omnipresent financial crisis."
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"The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government agency delivering economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide on behalf of the American people, is sponsoring a challenge to find the best in mobile innovations for good."
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Nathaniel Whittemore: "…sometimes the conversation in the social entrepreneurship becomes a little self-referential and we forget that our "more business-like" approaches are still, at the end of the day, just one approach."
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"When Kjerstin Erickson decided to start blogging about FORGE’s problems on the Social Edge website, her board discouraged her. … But Kjerstin was actually doing something that to her generation seems completely natural. She was living her life online."
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Phil Cubeta: "Securitization of life conduct, yes, as in the securitization of the public square by venture entrepreneurs and forprofit social media… We have securitized and bankrupted an entire way of life. At least we have bubble-bailouts."
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