social capital
MN CUP: Social Entrepreneur Finalists!
http://www.breakthroughideas.org/page/1/2009-Social-Entrepreneur-s-Cup-Finalists.jsp
Ideation, co-creation, crowdsourcing, etc.
Best Buy is expanding its private label offerings based on the “mountains of customer feedback…”
Campbells soup wants your ideas
There’s an ideastorm brewing at Dell
Starbucks wants to shape their future with ideas from outside their walls
There’s clearly a trend here, the question I have is: how long do these companies have before their “idea pools” become [...]
What does the growth of CarrotMob/Virgance indicate for the future of “for profit activism”?
It’s great to see the increasing attention and coverage of the initiatives behind Carrotmob/Virgance, as noted in The Economist on January 29th, 2009.
According to co-founder Steve Newcomb: ““I started looking at activism as a potential start-up industry”. Right on Steve!
“Virgance’s role is to find campaigns that it can help to succeed through a four-pronged support [...]

