The first is that the solar-as-social-network concept is as real and dependable as, well, the Sun rising in the East.
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To wit, they developed Osom, an iPhone app that pays homage to the social shooter in concept as well as design by letting you create photos with a variety of filters, price them and put them up for sale.
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Mouin Rabbani International Crisis Group The Muslim Brotherhood were very much a social movement, for whom the concept of charity and social welfare was an important component of what's called dawah, which I think, loosely translated, might be translated as causalitisation.
To put it simply, social impact bonds went from concept to execution faster than any other social innovation we have seen in years.
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Downing said the validation Vine brings to the concept of social video outweighs any concerns.
This brings up an important concept about social networks that I have experienced particularly on Twitter.
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The concept of social enterprise, so attractive in sites like Davos, tends to fall apart when we actually step outside the Western world.
Started in 1985, when the concept of social enterprise mostly was unheard of, the founders got the following idea: Make the world a better place.
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Luckily for me, it already exists in the concept of social business as an integrated view of collaboration across parties within and beyond the organization.
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Until and unless those changes are made, the public will continue to reject both the concept of Social Security privatization and candidates for office that advocate it.
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When he first pitched the concept to Social Security officials in the mid-1980s, "They told me they couldn't even study it because Congress would go nuts, " Goodman says.
After a thorough research of these people, he coins the concept of Social Entrepreneurship and receives the McArthur Genius Grant of 1 million dollars with which he launches Ashoka.
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Transport projects are usually evaluated in terms of net social value, a standard concept in economics.
Note that even Hayek, the intellectual godfather of modern libertarians, supported the concept of basic social safety nets.
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Tianping's voluntary purchase shows that the concept of corporate social responsibility is no longer entirely foreign in China.
Roshan is part of a new generation of companies that are redefining the concept of a social enterprise in emerging markets.
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Besides identity rising in significance in a cloud, mobile and social world, the traditional concept of identity is going to change and will be radically transformed itself by those three forces.
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The finance minister said his department already tries to build in the concept of what social good can be extracted from money going into contracts, and that there was no room for complacency in procurement.
There was something to that argument: credit is a learned thing, both a legal concept and a social one that emerged in the developed world over centuries, whose core component is the creation of a sense of obligation between two perfect strangers.
Social entrepreneurship is not a new concept and many have found success operating as a for-profit businesses.
The answer is held in the concept of SOC: social overhead capital.
The challenge for corporations is that a social license to operate is a subjective concept, not a piece of paper.
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The down economy and the rise in social networking have given movement to the concept of crowdfunding (the term crowdsourcing has also been used interchangeably), which combines the resources of a large number of individuals to fund a single business concept.
Companies of any size in any industry that embrace this concept will be seen as authentic social purpose leaders.
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But it also seems pretty obvious to me that the basic concept of private property is a social construct rather than a government one.
Good to Great and the Social Sectors postulates that greatness is not a concept unique to business, but one that cuts across all disciplines.
The social enterprise represents an inflection point for the very concept of enterprise.
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The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking.
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As someone who works in the non-profit sector running an economic development organization in Northeast Ohio, I found this concept worth exploring for both business and social sector leaders.
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