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Looking for Developers to Build Web-based ECommerce Platform

I am in the process of setting-up a non-profit which will provide another sales channel for Third World entrepreneurs. More specifically, the Third World entrepreneurs’ goods would be sold online.

We need to create the non-profit's ecommerce platform so we need developers!! I am looking for developers who are interested in Third World economic development and creating a global on-line marketplace for the less fortunate.

I look forward to hearing from you!!

Data is the Platform: UnLtdWorld

Hi everyone!

I'm new on NetSquared and thought it might be a good idea to use this first post to introduce the work we're doing at UnLtdWorld around free, open and accessible data, hoping that many members of this community will find this of interest, especially those working on social entrepreneurship.

GoSomething: Go Somewhere, Do Something

The Action Platform for Contributive Travel: Helping Engaged Travelers Do It!

Social Enterprise and Technology

I'm a social enterprise research consultant at the University of British Columbia, and I'm also working with Vancity Credit Union in Vancouver, British Columbia on accountability frameworks for social enterprise.

I'm interested in hearing about how social enterprises are using technology to improve their impact and performance. If anyone has an interesting stories or case studies - please don't hesitate to fire them my way.

I also host a minimalist blog on the topic here. Stop by and give me your two cents. I try to be provocative and to the point.

100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 

This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.

Type of expertise needed: 
Management Expertise
We need a startup guru for advice on project management, fund raising (goal: $200K), business planning. Guidance from people who've been through this process.
Type of expertise needed: 
Technical Expertise
Our platform is built on Wordpress MU. We need the assistance of a PHP coder with expertise in the Wordpress platform and someone with expertise in server administration.
Type of expertise needed: 
Marketing/Media Expertise
We want to create as much visibility as possible for the social innovators we work with and the niche online media properties we create. We have a marketing plan, but we would love the input of an online marketing/buzz creating genius.
Technology Vision: 

We want to make it dead simple for social entrepreneurs to integrate amazing online media into their sites and to find an audience interested in their stories. Our media platform is built on Wordpress MU, SimplePie RSS, and a variety of web services like Amazon S3. We use a process called “assisted podcasting” to enable even the least tech saavy, busiest social innovator to tell their personal story online by recording podcasts with their ordinary telephone.

We are developing a system enabling organizations to not only create their own content for their web sites, but to simultaneously pull in relevant feeds and stories from other organizations and sites.

xigi.net

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 
Think of xigi (ziggy) as the Bloomberg of the emerging capital market for good. It provides news, research, analytical tools and due diligence for investors and wealth managers who care about financial and social impact in their decision-making.

Village the Game: Play the World of Social Enterprise

Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch): 
Village is an online world and strategy game designed to get people addicted to third world development. Form a team, build sustainable enterprises that eradicate poverty, and discover the power you have to transform the real world.

Three Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Web Site

Three Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Web Site - Putting a calendar on your Web site can be a great way to keep supporters up-to-date on important events, meetings, and deadlines. All you need is an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a bit of spare time.

This caught my attention because I see it's more like an events diary than a calandar. It's available as a module in DotNetNuke as I suspect it is in most CMS products.

 In fact my own organisation uses such a product, not to keep track of our events but as a revenue generating facilities management product which yeilds the funds needed to maintain our human rights advocacy.

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