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Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship links from January 2011
Jan 28th
It has been a busy start to the year, and it seems like that is the case for everyone. Certainly everyone I bump into seems to be working very hard indeed, as the end of March 2011 looms large....No different...
Hopes and wishes for 2011 for civil society
Jan 14th
Social Investment Business have done an interesting powerpoint which shares the views of various sector leaders' wishes for 2011. Including (Sir) Stephen Bubb, Matthew Taylor from RSA, Rod Schwartz from ClearlySo, Julie McEver from Local Partnerships...and more. Including, first up,...
New podcasts: leadership, social entrepreneurs and numbers
Dec 14th
The benefits of having lost the argument over who should have the long commute with my wife is that I have plenty of time to catch up on podcasts and a bit of work-related listening on the way in (and...
Residential report 2: inequality in depth
Oct 18th
One of the features at the residential last week was the appearance of expert witnesses speaking on particular topics (strategic planning, partnerships, inequality etc). We thought it would be useful to share these on the blog both for those students...
Social enterprise and entrepreneurship links from September
Oct 17th
Slightly delayed due to the SSE residential, but here's my round-up of interesting, relevant and topical links in the world of social enterprise and entrepreneurship from September: - Not officially September, but as I'm late, two events from early October...
Residential report 1: Dartonia, Social Enterprise City of the Future
Oct 13th
So it's that time of year again where SSE has its residential; we are down in Dartington in Devon, which has a close connection to SSE as Michael Young (our founder) was integrally involved in Dartington, and because it is...
A small and clear presentation about the Big Society
Oct 8th
There's been much written and said about the Big Society but it's been sometimes difficult to get clarity on what it means, what's happening, and what the opportunities are. In some areas, that's still unclear (and will be until post...
Is a Social App Store just Toolkits 2.0?
Aug 19th
I was inspired to write by the latest issue of Third Sector magazine this week. Not a sentence I've written too often, perhaps, (tend to rely on it for news, rather than inspiration...) but there were three thought-provoking pieces in...
Social enterprise + entrepreneurship links from July
Aug 3rd
Currently, on my return to work, I am somewhere between B and C in the image to the left. Cleared the inbox (almost) yesterday, and now catching up on everything that's happened since I've been away. To which the short...
Is trust the most radical and efficient thing we have?
Jun 30th
A little while back, I wrote a post about whether a trust-based society could help square the public service delivery circle: the idea being that, in a time of fewer resources but greater need, removing middling tiers of bureaucratic infrastructure...
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