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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

I’ve been working on designing and developing a platform for the Social Times that will embrace and support entrepreneurial communities. The more I think about the concept, the more I realize that the platform is ultimately open-source entrepreneurship. What do I mean by that? No ... Continue reading »

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  • Nick,

    Awesome post and cant wait to get home and give the pdf a good read. I think this is what you mentioned to me the other night.

    I look forward to the platform and welcome the opportunity to help in any way I/we can.

    take care

    jimmy
  • I think it might be worth your time to take a look at some of the things that Cambrian House has done in this regard. They have a far from perfect model, but certainly have done some things right.
  • If you haven't already seen it, I'd recommend taking a look at Chris Pirillo's recent post "We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?"

    For the community of community owners, operators, moderators, and members: we need better options, and I believe we need them to exist on open platforms. We all have different tastes and we all use different tools, but I think we all can accept that community software should help us grow and flourish. One potential platform for us is found in Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS) that can be molded into a powerful, integrated suite of community experiences - something that can help us make sense of all these social networks we belong to.

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