Videos and podcasts and twitter

As Executive Producer of the Giving Channel on Fora.tv I’m thrilled to point you all over to some of the video coverage of the recent Social Capital Markets (SoCap08) conference. I covered the conference here, here, here, here, and here. The SoCap08 conference gave me the final push I needed to go live on twitter. [...]

SoCap Plenary Tuesday Morning

Some notes from Tuesday’s SoCap08 opening session with Katherine Fulton and a panel with Jed Emerson, Matthew Bishop, and David Chen. Locked in drivers of change – the things we know are going to happen, because they already are: money seeking diversification values driven investors growing inequity and environmental crisis track record of early success [...]

Social Markets Meet Mission Markets

Yesterday I hinted at news from socialmarkets.org – I’ve just been given the OK to leak this out – they’ve formed a partnership with missionmarkets.com and will be announcing it today at 12:05 pm in room 190c at SoCap08. This is cross-platform philanthropic investing. Tags: philanthropy, socap08, missionmarkets, socialmarkets

Further reflections on SoCap 08

Are Social Markets here? I asked this question yesterday. I think they are very much emerging, in formation and in ten/twenty years will need little explanation. So, to a small degree, they are here. But they are still very new. We have a lot of influence over what they are, how they work, what is [...]

SoCap 08

What does it mean if you throw a conference and twice as many people show up as were originally registered? Well that is what happened at SoCap08. The rooms were so full it made sense to join twitter so I could find out what was happening on the other side of the door – there [...]