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Vicki Saunders. Vicki is a serial entrepreneur, passionate mentor and advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world.

Vicki Saunders

Vicki is founder of SheEO, a program for women entrepreneurs that supports the next generation of women-led social ventures to lead from their strengths on their own terms. SheEO is planning on launching in 6 cities in 2014 and has Vicki has a book coming out on the topic in April. Vicki is also co-founder of WhatsNext, a global network of leading entrepreneurial talent focused on solving major challenges for business, education, NGOs and governmental institutions. Vicki’s passion to create a strong ecosystem for social entrepreneurs in Canada has her advising MaRS (Canada’s leading innovation centre), the Office of Social Enterprise with the Ontario Government and Ryerson University with the aim to drive wealth creation and positive social change in Canada and beyond.

Like this: TED Education — Video Lessons For Students. 20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using. MediaWiki is a great PHP-based Wiki application that is used to power many sites, including Wikipedia itself.

20 MediaWiki Extensions You Should Be Using

One of MediaWiki strengths is how easy it is to extend with its plug-in architecture. The following is a list of 20 extensions that should make your life easier and save you a fair bit of time. Check them out and tell me if I’ve missed anything: 20. This extension outputs the contents of an RSS feed. 19. FlashMP3 embeds a simple Flash-player for playback of mp3-files. 18. VideoFlash is an extension that displays videos from Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, Sevenload, Revver and similar services based on FLV video format. 17. This extension provides the ability to create tasks on any page of your MediaWiki. 16. The ContactPage extension implements a contact form for visitors. 15. The Preloader extension allows the creation of boilerplate text which will be inserted into the edit form when creating new pages. So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? 4 Challenges. Photo: m.gifford/Creative Commons I can't say that I ever wanted to work for myself.

So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? 4 Challenges

That's not for any reason except that I never really thought about it, and given my career choice (at least the one I was doing before this), unless I owned a TV station, it wasn't going to become a reality anyway. But when I was thrust into this new world of writing/brand building, there were a number of things I had to embrace -- and fast.

Don't get me wrong: There are a lot of good things about being your own boss; I just think people have a romanticized view of what it's really like. Think you're up for it? A web in HTML5 canvas. Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 4:35 pm Whenever there is an open forum to discuss HTML5, you get very interesting questions.

A web in HTML5 canvas

Sometimes you also get ones you just facepalm to. One of them was yesterday on Facebook where someone wanted a “simple web in HTML5”. As I was bored watching “revenge of the sith” I thought I give it a go. So here you go – a simple web in HTML5 canvas. How is this done? I translate the context of the canvas to the centre of the 400×400 pixel canvas and start painting the lines. In order to achieve the web effect all I had to do was to rotate the canvas before painting each segment.

CROWDFUNDING. For-Profit Social Ventures. You have an idea for a business activity that will generate a blend of social and/or environmental benefits and revenues for your organization.

For-Profit Social Ventures

You are ready to launch a social venture. Under current legislation in Ontario, there is no legal structure that combines some of the benefits of both the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. Your organization must carefully consider the current legal environment and existing legal structures and requirements associated with for-profit, not-for-profit, registered charities and co-operative corporations before you set up your organization in Canada. Social Finance. The Web Books Viewer.

Up-Start! Competition. Join us for the sixth annual Up-Start!

Up-Start! Competition

Competition! The Up-Start! Competition is a business pitch competition for 2010/11 Entrepreneurship 101 students. Individuals or teams will have 10 minutes to pitch their business idea—and they must apply concepts from Entrepreneurship 101 to make a compelling business case. Business ideas must fit into one of the following four categories: Information and communications technology (ICT)CleantechLife sciences and health careSocial Venture The top business plan and presentation will receive a prize of $10,000, sponsored by Tricaster Holdings Inc. – Chairman David Campbell, plus $5,000 in in-kind services from Tabrizi Law Office.

An additional prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the Best Blended Value Opportunity—one that demonstrates a social, health or environmental impact while balancing financial returns. A company may only win one of the two prizes. The audience will vote to determine the winner of the People’s Choice Award. This year’s finalists are:

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