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Social entrepreneurship, People Empowerment, Social Relevance, It’s an UnLtdWorld
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Reading the elevator pitch for UnLtdWorld and what it’s all about gave me a headache. Creating a social network with a broad coverage is a big task in itself, what more if it aims to change the world? The UnLtdWorld site’s tagline says:
“UnLtdWorld empowers people to generate greater social impact in the real world by enabling them to share, shape and build knowledge, markets and communities through social networks.”
No matter how you would interpret those lines, bottom line is, UnLtdWorld is still after all a social network. And so, I will try to describe what UnLtdWorld is all about and what it can offer to us, social networking fans the usual way I write about other social networking start-ups in the past, highlight its features.
And feature wise, UnLtdWorld has a lot. It lets you:
- Connect with other socially minded people,
- Search and share resources and opportunities
- Find and list services and products,
- Find answers to key questions
- Create and join groups
- Social entrepreneurship, social and environmental issues mapping and graphing tools
I could go on describing and enumerating the rich features of of UnLtdWorld, but I fear it might take me several pages to do so.
In summary, let me just say that UnLtdWorld, given its nobel intention, is worthy of your time if you are fond of trying out new social networking sites/platforms that keeps on launching everyday. UnLtdWorld, unlike those other general social networking site has a good purpose, so you might as well try it out. Who knows, you might like it and become one of the its pioneer members.
Shallie Bey Says:
September 18th, 2008 at 8:49 pmArnold, thanks for an interesting post on social networking. I get the sense that you are making the distinction between social networking and social entrepreneurship. That is why I want to share this information with your readers who might want to inpire their network to perform entrepreneurship. For the people who do want to consider social entrepreneurship, there are a host of opportunities to change the world.
In fact, in November of this year there will be a new effort to promote entrepreneurship. This will be the first time effort among more than 60 countries to establish Global Entrepreneurship Week. I hope this international effort will be an inspiration to young people across the world to face the challenge of their dreams and not to be frozen by the fear of loss. Let’s hope your blog will encourage people to give social entrepreneurship a try.
Shallie Bey
Smarter Small Business Blog