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.
Woah. Hold your horses. We won’t have language like that around here, this ain’t no Rupert Murdoch publication. Thanks to the wonders of scrolling text there isn’t even a page 3.
It is flipping cold here in London though, and the hidden overlords who control the thermostat in our office have decided that absolute zero is an appropriate ambient temperature to work in. I might print this week’s news out and burn it to keep warm (making it the most useful Have I Got Social Enterprise News For You ever?).
Enough prattling, here’s this week’s news…
A lot of strange things have come out of America over the years. Pop tarts, George W Bush, the word ‘zucchini’, half of me; the list goes on… But today in America is National Nothing Day, a day which is celebrated by doing nothing. This sounds like a very interesting concept, and one we should try out here. Let’s all spend the rest of the day doing absolutely nothing. It’s Friday, you’ve earned the rest!
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Here’s this week’s news: Continue reading
After something of an extended hiatus, The School for Social Entrepreneurs and Social Spider once again teamed up for another edition of Social Enterprise Question Time.
This time, we debated the merits of social investment.
Making up our panel were:
Here are some of the best tweets:
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:
Credit: Nick Temple
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
