Jim Fruchterman, blogging on Social Edge about a panel he moderated on human rights at the Skoll Forum, pointed to the session’s xigi map

How is attending Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship like alien abduction experience? I’m glad you asked.

After taking the train back to London from Oxford I find myself suddenly in a normal London pub where people are talking about the cricket test match between x and y. Dropped back into the reality of being a lonely […]

The content at the Skoll World Forum on Social Enterprise has been pretty good. The activity and energy in the hallways and in the restaurants has been great. Seven hundred people trying to use market mechanisms to change the world. Quite amazing to see we are part of something growing so quickly and reaching such […]

SVT is excited to have teamed up with R. Paul Herman’s newest venture, HIP Investor, in our first foray into public equity impact analysis. We co-developed a framework that investigates the link between Human Impact and Profitability, and in collaboration with Fast Company have now applied it to 21 Fortune 500 companies. The company […]

One of our goals at xigi.net and Goodcap is to change the definition of capital, so that value and values are in sync. One of most amazingly open, (as in open to input, open to change) efforts to build a new monetary system is on view at BarCamp Bank.

Here’s their summary:This page is designed to […]

Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation along with Roger Martin, a Canadian academic, have decided to venture once more into the no man’s land of the definition of social entrepreneurship. It’s timely; the article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review has come out just prior to the Skoll World Social Entrepreneurship […]

The PlayTest Phenomenon

We have actually been playing this making-the-game together game already!

We just didn’t recognize it for what it was. It hasn’t looked like what we thought it would look like.

This is the most dramatic thing I myself have learned from the Selearninggames experience so far. And YOU have taught me!

Now, I’d like […]

The Next Step Iterative Redesign of Selearninggames wiki is underway. YOUR input is WELCOME.

Initial PlayTest period Nov. 1 - Dec. 31, 2006.

Results:

very positive re: concept/theory
not-so-positive re: engagement/participation

Visitors to wiki

don’t know “how to” play the making-the-game game
don’t know how [...]

When I was at the Asia Semifinals of the Global Social Venture Competition the other week, I had a conversation that has stuck with me with one of the competitors. His team’s two-part plan was to facilitate cultivation of a hardy crop that grows well in arid rural regions by building on a network of […]

I think the maps would be enhanced with direct hot links. I’ve used C-Map tools. You might want to check them out. http://cmap.ihmc.us/