5 reasons why your charity or social enterprise needs a social media strategy

by Zoe Amar

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Does your organisation have a social media strategy? If not, you’re far from alone. Whilst social media has been widely adopted by many charities and social enterprises, many are either still fine tuning their strategies or wondering how best to get started.

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Student experience: our Replication and Social Franchising course

For the last few years SSE London has run a social franchising course, in partnership with the International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF).  This year, the course begins in February and we have broadened the scope to cover all forms of replication:

Growth and Replication

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We caught up with a participant from last year, Kieron Tilley of We Walk The Line, to talk about his experience on the course.  We Walk The Line is a social enterprise which aims to train disadvantaged individuals to become baristas, and teaches them the skills that they require to establish their own business.  Continue reading

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What’s on at SSE: January – March 2015

Happy New Year!  Hopefully you are well rested, refreshed and ready to take on 2015.

There is a lot going on at SSE over the next few months, so below is a brief synopsis of everything currently scheduled to take place over the first few months of this year.

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Have I Got A Social Enterprise Year in Review For You

So there it was. Christmas is over, and we’re now in that twilight zone period until the New Year.  If you’ve made it into work, a sympathetic (and cold) high five to you; if you’re still at home in your pyjamas eating chocolate, I’m not at all jealous…

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Photo Credit: diffendale via Compfight cc

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News + social media tools + this boring headline = Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You

It’s been a bit of a quiet week this week (perhaps no surprise with the bank holiday), so along with the usual news I’ve included some tools that may help with your social media efforts – the marketing ones a few weeks ago were well received so hopefully these will be too!
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