Blog posts from Daniel Ben-Horin

This blog post is one of series exploring various aspects of the Feb. 15-17 Tech Soup Global Contributors' Summit. Find a subjective report from Daniel Ben-Horin about the Summit here. A tagged, searchable report on all the projects planned coming out of the Summit will be posted with a target date of mid-April.

This blog post is one of series exploring various aspects of the Feb. 15-17 Tech Soup Global Contributors' Summit. Find a subjective report from Daniel Ben-Horin about the Summit here. A tagged, searchable report on all the projects planned coming out of the Summit will be posted with a target date of mid-April.

This blog post is one of series exploring various aspects of the Feb. 15-17 Tech Soup Global Contributors' Summit. Find a subjective report from Daniel Ben-Horin about the Summit here. A tagged, searchable report on all the projects planned coming out of the Summit will be posted with a target date of mid-April.

Since the TSG Summit, we've gotten to know Campus Party better and the more we know, the more impressed we have been.

On August 18, I posted about my Campus Party Mexico experience; and promised a full report. I just had the chance to post this on Beth Kanter's blog.

The young Romanian guy looks at the camera and straight facedly enumerates the three contributions of his new website and specifically how it will benefit Romanian "regular Joes." The first contribution is,

"Regular Joe will learn from the website where bribe prices are lower and will use free market principles to get the price of bribery down, down, down."

The American Ambassador to Romania, Mark Gitenstein, took the time to offer this comment on my Huffington Post article about the Restart Romani

Heba Gemal is an Egyptian, formerly with Google in the U.S., who became highly engaged with events in Egypt and who is now a senior global network partner manager with TechSoup Global, based in the Fundacja TechSoup office i

Over on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, I will soon publish a post entitled “Innovation Obsession Disorder”. My basic point is that we get all hot and gooey about great innovations but we tend to lose interest after the innovative pilot has been launched. The world is full of great innovative projects that can’t move beyond the pilot stage.

Today, I follow yesterday’s post with Mathias Craig’s analysis of the issues surrounding innovation in the social sector, especially as that innovation is applied to benefit the poorest, most isola