From Computer Business Review Online ...

HP and Curam Software, a provider of Social enterprise management, or SEM, products, have teamed up to provide SEM services to public sector agencies worldwide, assisting them to more easily deliver online services to citizens.

The SEM suite comprises hardware, software and web services. The companies say it is designed to improve the quality and efficiency of service delivery by enabling agencies to simplify business processes and integrate new applications into a holistic citizen-centric overview.

More at TechWhack, Canada Newswire, Electric News, and The Register.

Sorry for the lack of longer, original posts. Very busy here and almost too busy just to drop these stories off. Hopefully that will change soon. Until then, some more news ...

*The Business 2.0 Blog highlights the 31 best new business ideas, including twelve linked here.

*From Sept. 20-24, 2006 the Hollyhock Leadership Institute will hold a conference about facilitative leadership across cultures.

*Two nonprofits team up on solar powered WiFi.

*The UK's most successful social enterprise, Eaga Group, has been dropped from Scotland's fuel poverty programme in favor of British Gas.

*Ashoka: quietly encouraging innovators. From the PSD Blog.