Social entrepreneur and social innovation blogs

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/

 

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/]

- 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/ ]

 

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

Comments

[greenskeptic]

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

[Beth Kanter]

Thanks so much for the mention!

[Michael]

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..

[Britt Bravo]

Thanks for including Have Fun * Do Good on your list!