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What is the role of social entrepreneurs in the Big Society?
May 18th
[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...
Social entrepreneurs in Fife: Tracey, Frankie, Alfie and Kathleen
Apr 29th
It’s been a great and amazing couple of days, reaffirming why I love working in this field, and what it can achieve. Wednesday included a ‘webinar’ on using social media with Fellows dialling in from across the UK and Australia,...
Social enterprise + social entrepreneurship links of the week (to 23/4/10)
Apr 26th
In times gone by, I used to scan through the SSE bookmarks on del.icio.us for what we had been noting and reading during a week gone by. Now, increasingly, it's looking back through the tweets on the SSE Twitter account...
5 thoughts from OxfordJam and the Skoll World Forum
Apr 22nd
I was lucky enough to spend some of last week up in Oxford while the Skoll World Forum and OxfordJam were going on. Alastair Wilson, SSE's CEO, was on the panel over at Skoll (you can check out the video...
The real deal social entrepreneurs in Yorkshire
Apr 9th
Great to go and visit our Yorkshire and Humber SSE today, and not just because East Coast trains do free wi-fi (hooray)...but also much more importantly to get a catch-up on how the first programme is going up there, and...
Shine 2010: buy your tickets to the social entrepreneurs unconference
Mar 30th
Been busy of late: usual end-of-year shenanigans here, with programmes graduating (see this article on London SSE), and new ones starting (see this article on SSE coming to Wigan and Leigh), a launch of an SSE feasibility study (with MaRS...
Openness and transparency, at breakfast, lunch and dinner
Mar 5th
I was trying to work out how to capture a few different bits of learning from the week and various different meetings, and thought I'd do so via the theme of openness...and three meals. 1) First up, I met with...
Cornwall SSE and Hampshire SSE: new videos!
Mar 4th
A couple more videos to share with you all, from the Cornwall and Hampshire SSEs respectively. The Cornwall video was shown at their recent graduation, and features interviews with the student social entrepreneurs as they come towards the end of...
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