Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship Summit on Twitter

by Nathaniel Whittemore

Published November 17, 2008 @ 08:19AM PST

For those of your Tweeters out there, follow @SES08 to keep track of the live Tweets from the MaRS Discovery District's annual Social Entrepreneurship Summit.

The speaker line-up is great, including Julia Moulden (author of We are the New Radicals), Dev Ajula, founder of DreamNow, and Nick Temple from the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

One of the common theme's I'm picking up from the twitter feed is entrepreneurial careerism: how young people are looking to create lives of meaning where their jobs serve their social goals. Working with undergraduates, I can testify that this is at the core of the career conversation.

One cool thing I've picked up: Dev Ajula has written an eBook called "Occupation: Change the World" that's free for download. I'll be scoping it and will write some thoughts later.

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Evanston, IL

Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.

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