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Meerkat Vision and Mission

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Please let us know what you think abour our latest strapline, vision and mission. Any good? 

Strapline
: Measured and Meaningful Social Innovation Online.

Meerkat Vision

Meerkat is dedicated to encouraging a web industry that embraces the principles of sustainability in a meaningful and measurable way, which will prove faster than industries such as mining, retail, manufacturing or pharmaceuticals ever did. We believe this will happen because

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Social Networking in Plain English

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Video from Commoncraft - explanations of Social Networking in plain English.  A video for people who wonder why social networking sites are so popular. We think one reason is because they help to solve a real world problem. www.commoncraft.com/show...

John Hutton - "More schools need to engage with Make Your Mark"

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In the Future Face of Enterprise Conference, John Hutton MP stated "More schools need to engage with Make Your Mark".  He went on to say that whilst the quality of business journalism is extremely good in the UK, with the best will in the world, teachers and school kids are not going to read the FT before going in to school.  This is not something the Governemnt can solve - it's up to Make Your Mark.  Now there's a challenge!...

The Future Face of Enterprise

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Today sees the launch of Make Your Mark's flagship campaign - Enterprise Week - with the Future Face of Enterprise Conference at the British Library.  Some inspiring speakers including Faisal Islam (Economics Correspondent, Channel 4 News), Jonathan Guthrie (Enterprise Editor, FT), Ben Verwaayen (Chief Exec, BT) and of course John Hutton MP.  Yet to come are Joanna Shields (International President, Bebo) and Harry Rich (CE of...

Guidelines for posting on Meerkat

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Guest Editor Guidelines

We'd love for people to post their thoughts on the web and its impact on society. We'd love for people to see something in the press and think, I want a bigger discussion on this, a more rounded discussion perhaps. Well, we'd love for you to share your thoughts on Meerkat.

Some guidelines to get you started:

1)    What topic will you cover?
We will check the site and either add it as a new Category or a Sub-Category if...

Does the Media give a fair representation of the impact of the web on society?

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On October 1st Meerkat went to meet with the very lovely Jim Hendler at the http://www.rpi.edu/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There we met with 
Janice Fernheimer, Katherine Isbister, Cheryl Geisler 
(all three of whom are faculty members in the Language, Literature and Communication Department - Cheryl is the Chair), Li Ding (post doc in computer science), James Michaelis, Alvaro Graves, Debbie Heisler&...

Social Capital may be worth as much as $8 trillion to business globally: How does Social Media contribute to Social Capital and what is its value?

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The concept of Social Capital can be defined as ‘Investment in social relations with expected returns in the marketplace’.  The value of Social Capital to global business in 2006, measured as the difference between a business’s market cap and net book value, was $8 trillion. The principle of Social Capital, supported by a growing commitment to one another, the environment, and a healthy desire for capital return is becoming much more mainstream ...

Danny Weitzner with his on why the internet is good for humanity.

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Member of WSRI. http://webscience.org. He has some great views on why the internet is good for humanity.
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Jim Hendler commenting on why the internet is good for humanity

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Jim Hendler, member of WRSI, commenting on why the internet is good for humanity...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee chatting about the impact of the internet on humanity

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60 secs with a Member of WSRI. htp://webscience.org. Chatting about the impact of the internet on humanity.
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