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6 of the Best: recent social entrepreneur reading

Here's half a dozen recent posts and articles from experienced folk, well worth a read if you're in the social entrepreneurship world: - Craig Dearden-Phillips on public speaking: "....Step two is to watch carefully how people are responding. Do they...

What are the policy and communications futures for social entrepreneurs?

My role at SSE is Policy and Communications Director, so in keeping with that, today a bit of policy, and a bit of comms. First up, I contributed to the Society Guardian podcast (in association with KnowHowNonProfit which is well...

Learning by doing: a social entrepreneur’s take on Big Society

I've been reading a few of the responses to the Big Society vision outlined by the new government. For example, you can get Stephen Bubb's take at ACEVO (pdf), and Martin Brookes et al's perspective at New Philanthropy Capital. Both...

Social enterprise + social entrepreneur links of the week (June 2nd)

Enjoyed this graph to the left, as it summed up either a) why social entrepreneurs are often prone to action (it removes doubt!) and b) how those waiting for potential cuts might feel as that wait continues....and in the interests...

Shine 2010: unconference photos

Slideshow of some of the photos from the Shine 2010 unconference, Thursday and Friday last week. Photographic evidence that I did indeed run out of chairs for my 'introduction to measuring social impact' session, amongst much else besides.....

What is the role of social entrepreneurs in the Big Society?

[copy and pasted from the live Independent blog that accompanied Shine 2010; see David Floyd's write-ups for more on Shine] The Shine Unconference started with the launch of a new report from ResPublica about the Venture Society, looking at ways...