Weekend Entrepreneur Links

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-11-22 20:17:00 UTC
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I always love Sunday nights as a chance to dig back through the last three or four days of Google Reader and share the best links. This week, there seems to be a bit more in fields related but slightly tangential to social entrepreneurship, so perhaps the theme is considering the Venn diagram of social and other forms of entrepreneurship.

The Customer Isn't a Human Being: Driven by a provocative title, frog design VP of Marketing Tim Leberecht explores the perspective on product design that rejects the notion of user-centrism and market research and instead tries to create patterns of behavior around a new offering.

Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report: The second of two design-related links, a group of designers and NGO leaders got together last week for a three day exploration of how design could be used to address social issues.

Build Your Entrepreneurial Confidence. Try These Tips on For Size: A set of links for the self-reflective entrepreneur - definitely worth a read.

The biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce: Reflections from the Real Time CrunchUp reflecting on the big news in the tech world last week. This matters for the reasons I outlined here about how the real time web could change social change.

How Google Wave Is Changing The News: Only a few months old and still open by invite only, Google Wave is already creating a whole new template and structure for engagement.

#PFwhiteboard: crowdsourcing strategy at the Peery Foundation: A nice article and interview about the Peery Foundation's approach to transparency. Love this group.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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