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Sustainopreneurship - the Book
- The Book Blogging Process
Book-related posts have [book: part name] in Title and categorized 'Book Blog Posts - Business with a Cause', together with their part number and name, 'Part N. The Name'. Comments on the drafts are collected through this Book Blog, and through the virtual community, 'Sustainopreneur's Café'. A related group on the community has been created, and a wiki for draft collection and outline as well, see below. - Working Title: 'Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause. The Whys, Whats and Hows of Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability'
A book on Sustainopreneurship is in progress, sourcing content from popularized and re-edited academic publications, new research focusing case study collection and stories, and crowd-sourcing through community: blog comments and through the Café (virtual community) below. Read more about earlier, current and future publishing through the link above. 
- The Book Group at Sustainopreneur's Café
The book group over at the virtual community 'Sustainopreneur's Café' at Ning notifies when whole sections and chapters have finalized in chunks of 3k to 20k words, and getting ready for peer-reviewed and crowd-sourced feedback. This stage occurs when article-level contributions in 500 words and less have been blogged and commented. - The Book Wiki
Here is the wiki for the book. This is the place where Collecting and Editing Outline, Synopsis and Content gets done, and in the end the whole book will be published online as a final stage before the PDF and ready-made print version. - The Final Step: Book Group at Scribd - ready-made with layout (PDFs)
The final step in the writing/book-making process is the layout, taking the content from the book wiki and doing the design and formatting, ready for print and download. Chapter by chapter, then part by part, and finally the full book in its full manuscript.
Book Outline (17p PDF) on Scribd | Preview
- The blog posts that introduced every intended chapter in one paragraph and every book part main purpose is collected in a PDF for a concentrated overview. Get it here! You can also click the fullscreen mode not to leave the blog.
Blog Collection: Subject Line Category [book:intro] - Book Parts Described • Extended outline
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Recent Posts
- [#socialweb:#blogs] Today: Got featured on 'Social Entrepreneurship' on Alltop
- [#causebizbook:#1mcc] One Year After Starting "Sustainopreneurship" on Wikipedia - A To-Do List
- [#causebizbook:#pledges] Testing Weekend Attention Span of my Network
- [#internetdagarna] When the Internet became mobile - my blog post published yesterday
- [#internetdagarna] SNEAK PREVIEW: Screenshot from tomorrow's guest blogging
- #BAD09: Go for Good Carbon Offset to Drive Sustainability Innovation
- [#socialmedia:#BAD09] TOMORROW - Blog Action Day 2009: Theme Climate Change
- [#community:#socent] Forget Google Wave - Google Project 10^100 for the Hype!
- [#news:#creativity] Annual Creative Commons Fundraising Kicks Off! Support CC!
- [#causebizbook] Radical Rethinking of the Book Authoring Process
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I am featured among ~80 blogs in a wider sense related to the topic "Social Entrepreneurship". Subjectively selected as "the best of the best" among 750+ Alltop Topics.- Top Rank on "Sustainability Entrepreneurship"
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- Here I recommend some books related to the blog topic - the first set related to the possiblities in entrepreneuring for sustainability (inspiring!), the second set on getting into action (transpiring!).
October 2009
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About Sustainopreneurship
Sustainopreneurship means "Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability", or "Business with a Cause". In short, it means to solve a sustainability-related problem by creating/finding a sustainability innovation and take the solution to the market by creative business organizing, and venturing with respect to the needs fulfillment of current and future stakeholders. [read more...]About the Author
Anders Abrahamsson is a Sustainopreneurial Facilitator and a Global Knowledge Nomad Networking with Intention and Quality, who runs/develops six ventures; SLICE Services and Publishing, DJ Anders, ÆREAS(i), Club2Club, Ignition Communications, and SEEDS Innovation Fund, with a daughter two years old, and in a romantic love relationship (after a successful divorce). [read more...]About this Blog
This blog is about sustainopreneurship in both abstract and concrete dimensions - idea development, research, reflective practice and proactive application. The blog currently focuses a book in emergence; "Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause", posting drafts along the line of development for crowd-sourcing community insight and feedback through conversation. [read more about the book below]
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I use different social media apps with different updating features and approaches, where all of them serves a specific purpose. See the page linked above to my personal web for details.
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- Facebook: General plan for the day
- Dopplr: My geolocation
- Twitter: The microblog more for sharing and professional conversation - tracing my whereabouts in most realtime
- 30Boxes: My calendar for general planning
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My University and Research
- "Sustainopreneurship Research" on Scribd
Collection on all published works so far on Sustainopreneurship. - "Researching Sustainopreneurship" - the presentation at the conference: Slides
These were the slides I presented at my follow-up paper on outlining a research agenda for sustainopreneurship, further. - "Researching Sustainopreneurship"
I contributed to the track "Entrepreneurship - a Key to Sustainable Development?" in a follow up research paper to my Master Thesis, outlining a prospective research agenda to explore sustainopreneurship further. The slides are available on my Flickr account. - "Sustainopreneurship - Business with a Cause. Conceptualizing Entrepreneurship for Sustainability"
My Master Thesis, summary availiable online, as well as the Thesis itself, in full text. - Växjö University - Entrepreneurship and Business Development Research Profile
This is the part of the University I have been closely associated to, and also provide resources in many levels. I wrote my Master's Thesis at this University, and the research profile founder was one of the tutors.
Co-founded Sustainability Businesses
- SEEDS Innovation Fund
SEEDS Innovation Fund is an organizational template, concept and a portfolio strategy developed to get leverage, proliferation, diffusion and empowerment to Sustainability Innovations towards full-fledged Sustainability Enterprises, in short 'sustainopreneurship'. SEEDS is a framework that has been introduced and developed to identify some specific areas to apply sustainopreneurship. SEEDS as an acronym stands for Strengthening of Health, Education, Entrepreneurship, Digital Unification and Sustainable Distributed Energy. Funding will be done mainly through Ignition Communications AB and research guiding its portfolio strategy will be done through iÆREAS. - ÆREAS(i) - interim Association for Enactive Research, Education and Application of Sustainopreneurship
The organization intended to formalize and institutionalize the research and increased understanding of the phenomenon I discovered - sustainopreneurship. Currently in interim stage, where constitution of the full-fledged organization is intended to take place during 2009. - DJ Anders
MUSIC: When words are not enough. Delivering Joy of Life EDM. Music is Life, Life is Love, Love is Music. The most straight-forward way of being the change I want to see: Spreading Vibes from the Booth! This link takes you to the DJ Anders Profile Page on 'DJ Anders - the Virtual Clubbing Experience', the community where the latest promo mixes, gigs and news are posted and shared! - SLICE Services and Publishing™
SLICE is an acronym and stands for Sustainopreneurial Lecturing Inspiration Consultancy and Events. A service and publishing format for inspiration, facilitation and proliferation of sustainopreneurship in idea and applied interaction. Sharing experiences from Ignition® creation as part of the inspirational storytelling. This is my "freelance brand". Founder and sole owner. - Ignition Communications AB (in becoming)
The future intended main activity to be released when fully financed. Ignition Communications AB will be an independent spin-off company from OAM Sweden Inc. Ass. Co-managed with Rikard Jansson, CEO. I am responsible for research, development, networking and external communications as CXO - Chief Explorative Officer. - ON A MISSION Sweden - Inc. Ass.
The Sustainopreneurial Venture I was co-founding (cooperatively created with many), and until April 2004 was working chairman for. Website is currently in a quite passive mode, since the main business is undergoing development, releasing the brand Ignition®. When Ignition is launched in full and is generating a positive result, it is intended to keep and develop On a Mission further as a Sustainability Innovation Testbed.
Sustainopreneur's Toolbox
- A list of recommended tools for (sustainability) entrepreneurs - sorted by some kind of workflow and category: Core > Co-create > Communicate > Connect > Community > Commercialize
Core
- The Browser: Your dashboard!
Co-create
- Getting things done: Nozbe
- Calendar: 30Boxes
- Planner page: Zoho Planner
- Project management: Basecamp
Communicate
- Microblogging: Twitter
- Blogging: Wordpress
- Pro-blogging: Typepad
- Webpage/Website: Weebly
Connect
- Referral engine: Linkedin
- Contacts: Facebook
- Sourcing: Ki-work
- Contact management: Highrise
Community
- Build: Ning
- Notify/updates: Facebook Groups
- Wiki: Wikidot
Commercialize
- Payment/invoicing: PayPal
- Web-trade: Ebay
- Web-shop creation: osCommerce
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