10 Social Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter

The following Twitter users are people that I know, have met at conferences or simply find interesting…all doing work in areas related to social ventures. Here’s what I think of them and why I think you should follow them too!

Name – Nathaniel Whitmore
Location – Evanston, IL
Twitter – @nlw
Why You Should Follow – Founder of Assetmap.org and one of the founding organizers of Change.org

Real – Sarah Bramley
Location – Kampala, Uganda
Twitter – @sbramley
Why You Should Follow – Regional Manager of Africa for the NGO Water For People. Updates a lot from the field using her mobile while working to provide clean water to people who don’t have access to it

Name – Kaushal Jhalla
Location – San Francisco
Twitter – @ksjhalla
Why You Should Follow – Organizer of Barcamp Africa and liaison between Silicon Valley and African companies

Name – Joseph Kimojino
Location – Maasai Mara, Kenya
Twitter – @maratriangle
Why You Should Follow – Interesting tweets from a wildlife and Maasai tribe protectionist living in a National Park in Kenya.

Name – Isaac Mao
Location – China
Twitter – @isaac
Why You Should Follow – Prominent Chinese blogger, web developer and social activist. Often writes in Chinese but search.twitter.com can attempt to translate for you.

Name – Rhesa
Location – San Francisco
Twitter – @persistance
Why You Should Follow – Explores ways of creating new channels of capital to fund innovation and creativity in undeserved communities.

Name – Glenn Strachan
Location – You never really know with this guy
Twitter – @glennstrachan
Why You Should Follow – ‘The Johnny Appleseed’ of broadband in Africa and other emerging markets.

Name – Social Capital Markets
Location – San Francisco, California
Twitter – @SoCap08
Why You Should Follow – Conference for investors interested in philanthropic (double-bottomline) businesses

Name – Stacey Monk
Location – Satellite Beach, FL
Twitter Name – @StaceyMonk
Why You Should Follow – Founder of Epicchange.com

Name – Appropedia.org
Location – Global
Twitter – @appropedia
Why You Should Follow – Writes about green living, green tech, appropriate technology, solutions to poverty, sustainable development.

Name – Jon Gosier
Location – Kampala, Uganda
Twitter Name – @jongos and @appfrica