Today marks the beginning of Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire young people around the world to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. It runs this year from November 16-22 and virtually connects approximately 4 million people in 87 countries (read Kauffman Foundation's release about it).

Each nation has found a different way to kick off what is the culmination of months of organizing and engaging their communities.

How do you plan to celebrate and connect with the world? You can start by making a comment here with "I support Global Entrepreneurship Week!"

To find out more, visit Unleashing Ideas. Get live updates at the Unleashing Ideas Blog.

Go ahead ... unleash yourself and your potential -- globally!

The first-ever Economics Bloggers Forum at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was held last week. The experts shared perspectives on the business of blogging and the most pressing topic of the day: the economy.

A couple of the questions asked:

• What is your blog's business model?

• What has been the personal impact of your blogging?

• What 1-3 blog posts have you written of which you are particularly proud?

Learn more (immediate download of 40-page PDF file):

Read The Wisdom of Economic Bloggers: Blogger Survey Summary

And here's a good listing of all the people who contributed to the report along with their blog links. Not too much of a global focus but it's a start.

More than 75 countries around the world are launching the first ever Global Entrepreneurship Week (www.unleashingideas.org), November 17-23, 2008.

The brainchild of the Kauffman Foundation, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is an international initiative designed to inspire, inform, mentor, connect and engage entrepreneurs and to encourage them to "unleash" their ideas and solutions on a global, connected marketplace.

Find out more here, join in on the discussions, and spread the good global word.