http://www.ryanallis.com The Journey of a Passionate Entrepreneur & Social Entrepreneur Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:23:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we sleep tonight in America, there is history afoot. Never before has the social web been used to such an extent within a country to attempt to remove a leader and coordinate a political revolution. Tomorrow, Saturday, will be an important day in the history of Iran. For the sake ... http://www.ryanallis.com/the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/ I'm in Dedham, Massachusetts tonight (pronounced Dead-um I think) just southwest of Boston. Tonight, I started Day One of the Class of 2011 EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program. The program is a four day a year/three year program open primarily to members of Entrepreneurs' Organization who are founders or co-founders of companies ... http://www.ryanallis.com/day-one-eo-mit-entrepreneurial-masters-program-2/ Facebook is allowing users to select a username at 12:01am EDT Saturday. Instead of long profile URLs like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2712652 you'll be able to choose a username so that you could send people to a page like http://www.facebook.com/yourname. How to Protect Your Trademark If you run a company or organization that owns a ... http://www.ryanallis.com/urgent-protect-your-brand-on-facebook/ From June 25th through July 5th I'll be in Kenya and Uganda with Jess Shorland and Bob Phoenix. The purpose of our trip is to: Visit the non-profits that The Humanity Campaign and iContact have provided funds to in order to see and document how they are using the funds and ... http://www.ryanallis.com/what-well-be-doing-in-kenya-and-uganda-june-25-july-5/ I wanted to post my Powerpoint slides from the presentation I gave at MIT for their 2009 IDEAS Competition on Monday night. You can view them on Scribd or below via this blog post. The topic was "The Great Opportunity of Our Generation" Some of the formatting is off in Scrib but ... http://www.ryanallis.com/mit-ideas-competition-slides-the-great-opportunity-of-our-generation-2/ Guest Blog Post from Madison Hipp, UNC Student: A Day Without Wearing Shoes I loved going barefoot as a child. There was something so incredibly freeing about ditching my shoes and giving the tootsies some breathing room, and yet the thought never crossed my mind that I wouldn’t eventually have to ... http://www.ryanallis.com/guest-post-a-day-without-wearing-shoes/ Dare Mighty Things Blog Readers-- I am in a Social Media Giving Contest to see who can generate the most unique contributions by this Sunday April 12 at 8pm ET to Nothing But Nets, a campaign to eliminate malaria in developing countries. So far I have 7 unique contributors and if ... http://www.ryanallis.com/malaria-kills-send-a-net-save-a-life-go-to-africa/ I'm in the Chicago O'Hare hotel tonight. I'm so very excited to have 3-4 hours to read and write. I leave in the morning for Aspen to attend The Summit Series, an event that is bringing together 120 of the top entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs in the country. I can ... http://www.ryanallis.com/life-update-march-whirlwhind-the-summit-series-aspen/ On Sunday March 1 I got a voicemail. The call was from Elliott Bisnow. It said, "Come to The White House on Friday." Background on The Summit Series I've written about Elliott before. He's 23 and somehow, with an excellent team, has put together The Summit Series, designed to bring together the ... http://www.ryanallis.com/inside-the-white-house-friday/ The last two Saturday mornings of my life have been spent on Powerpoint. But it was worth it. So I'm standing in front of 150 social entrepreneurial peers at Yale on Saturday, attempting to set the scene for why I think we can actually end poverty, hunger, genocide, warfare, and preventable ... http://www.ryanallis.com/my-startingbloc-presentation-a-vision-for-the-world-in-50-years/