In all the fluffy, feel-good hype surrounding the formal launch of UnLtdWorld, a new social network for ’social entrepreneurs’ to go forth and do good in the world, one thing may have been missed. It’s explained best by founder Alberto Nardelli:
“We have developed a business model for UntdWorld around premium services, access to historical and comparative research, and targeted services that dynamically connect and match social entrepreneurs, organisations, the broader public and content.”
In other words UnLtdWorld will be a fully-fledged business, not just a social network owned by the non-profit UnLtd foundation. So while you’re out there improving the world with your social entrepreneurship, UnLtdWorld will be charging you. Now that’s smart.
Thanks for the review Mike.
Just a quick clarification though: UnLtdWorld is free, we don’t charge users, and never will.
The quote above is unfortunately one paragraph in summary of a longer answer (I need to practice the art of summary), so slightly misleading, especially out of context.
Happy to chat more about our business model and what is meant by the above quote, which if put into context should make sense
It is fundamental to stress that we will never charge members to use any of our services. Yesterday, we also launched the UnLtdWorld Research Lab (a shame you couldn’t make the launch) which provides free access (and soon use of) to the UnLtdWorld network – which we hope is a new level of openness which shall prove valuable to social entrepreneurs and organisations that invest their efforts in changing the world for the better.
Alberto
UnLtdWorld – chief strategist
Ammado?