Social Edge, the community site of the Skoll Foundation, has just introduced the Social Entrepreneur Search Widget, an application programming interface tool to allow folks to search for social entrepreneurs within the networks of a series of leading social entrepreneurial organizations - including Civic Ventures, Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, [...]

Victor D’Allant, the executive director of Social Edge, the Skoll Foundation’s community website “by social entrepreneurs, for social entrepreneurs,” will be keynoting Willamette University’s Social Media Conference November 6.  Victor has been on the bleeding edge of social media for many years now, and Social Edge is a great resource for information on all [...]

The Skoll Foundation’s Jill Finlayson, who’s the marketing manager for Social Edge, our community website, led a panel discussion at the Social Capital Market’s conference - SOCAP09 - aimed at identifying  the barriers to greater efficiency in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem and how we might use technology to address the challenges.  She’s put up an [...]

The Skoll Foundation is supporting a new initiative to make it easier to find information about social entprepreneurs and their work.  Joining initially with Pop!Tech, ideablob and Civic Ventures, Skoll is helping launch a Social Entrepreneur Application Programming Interface (API).
Per the press release, “The Social Entrepreneur API will be the first open database of information [...]

The Global X Interview series on Social Edge, the Skoll Foundation’s online community site “by social entrepreneurs, for social entrepreneurs,” has been named an official honoree in the public service and activism category.  Per the Webby web site:
“If the Web 2.0 revolution has shown us anything, it’s that the Internet is a proven star-making invention. [...]

We’re here in Oxford, preparing for the Skoll World Forum that kicks off Wednesday.  We convened Tuesday with the Skoll social entrepreneurs from 2005-2008, joined by their nine new colleagues who will receive their awards this year at the Forum.  Each of the new Skoll social entrepreneurs gave a short talk to the whole group [...]

The Huffington Post has continued the series on social entrepreneurs we blogged on earlier with an “open letter” to Jeff Skoll.  It details Jeff’s creation and support of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll World Forum, and Social Edge and his work with Participant Media. It closes with a question to Jeff about the likely [...]

The Skoll World Forum kicks off in Oxford on March 25.  The Foundation co-producers this each year with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School at  Oxford.  It’s shaping up to be a great event.  The agenda has now gone live. You can see that here.  The theme this year is [...]

Global X, an interview series focused on social entrepreneurs on the Skoll Foundation’s Social Edge website, has been shortlisted for a Webby Award.  The Webbies are widely recognized awards honoring the “best of” the web.  Global X has been shortlisted for “Online Film and Video” in the Public Service and Activism Category.
The web is a [...]

This three minute video from Jody Williams on Social Edge’s Global X site gives some good words of wisdom for the holiday season.  In it, she explains what got her started in the activism that ultimately led her to a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on land mines.  Her advice:  Don’t just whine about [...]