An organisation doing PR for a big event in our world asked me recently for a list of blogs related to this field / movement, as they were having trouble deciding who / what to contact. I put together a list of what I think the most influential / readable / interesting / relevant blogs are, and then thought that it was quite a useful list, so here it is, broken down with no real reasoning into US / UK / Other; there’s lots of other feeds I subscribe to, but tried to pick the most directly relevant blogs; please add any others in the comments:
US-based
– Social Edge: www.socialedge.org
– Social Enterprise Reporter: http://www.sereporter.com/seblog
– Stanford Social Innovation Review: http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/
– Social ROI: http://www.socialroi.com/
– Philanthropy 2173: http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/
– Xigi: http://www.xigi.net/
There’s a few others that are tangentially relevant
(Tactical Philanthropy etc) with a very good blogroll here: http://philanthropy.com/giveandtake/
(Tactical Philanthropy etc) with a very good blogroll here: http://philanthropy.com/giveandtake/
UK-based
– me, obviously, here and on www.sse.org.uk
[I also blog at the www.GlobalIdeasBlog.com and at
Innovation Exchange: http://innovation-exchange.org/]
Innovation Exchange: http://innovation-exchange.org/]
– Rob Greenland at Social Business http://thesocialbusiness.typepad.com/the_social_business/
– Rod Schwartz et al at Catalyst Fund: http://www.catfund.com/blog
– Todd Hannula at Social Catalyst: http://www.socialcatalyst.co.uk/
– John Elkington: http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/blogger.htm
– NESTA (various): http://blogs.nesta.org.uk/
[tangentially Intelligent
Giving: http://www.intelligentgiving.com/blog and
David Wilcox are relevant also: http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/ ]
Giving: http://www.intelligentgiving.com/blog and
David Wilcox are relevant also: http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/ ]
Other thoughts
– Audeamus: http://www.audeamus.com/
– WorldChanging: http://www.worldchanging.com/
– Acumen Fund: http://blog.acumenfund.org/
– Doors of Perception: http://www.doorsofperception.com/
I’d also add that, on blogging + web 2.0 / third sector, you have to read:
– Beth’s Blog
– Have Fun, Do Good
– nfp 2.0
– Podnosh
I suggest adding my blog, The Green Skeptic, which has four focus areas: global climate change, social entrepreneurs, microfinance, and clean tech innovations.
And Ashoka (http://ashoka.org), which started this whole thing we call social entrepreneurism. (Disclosure: I started working for Ashoka in September.)
I’ve also started a couple of resource centers for social entrepreneurs on social networking sites:
http://www.squidoo.com/changemakers
http://changemakers.gather.com/ (anyone can join and post relevant articles)
Happy Holidays and all best for the New Year (the year of the social entrepreneur?).
SEA
Thanks so much for the mention!
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Love all the blogs you posted. A couple of my other favorites ones include Good Magazine, Echoing Green’s blog and of course alldaybuffet.org! Check them out if you get a chance..
Thanks for including Have Fun * Do Good on your list!