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As the ambassador programme completes I may finally be getting the hang of this networking lark having come away from the reception on Tuesday with some really useful contacts. It was a great evening and I’m only sorry I had to dash back to Leeds on the last train and couldn’t join my fellow ambassadors for a celebratory drink.  We’ll all work hard I’m sure to keep in touch and keep the momentum going.  What I’ve really loved about the programme is how inspired I am by the o...

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As we celebrated the end of the Ambassadors programme last night in London I was feeling that there is major opportunity for social enterprise right now and one which we really shouldn't miss. As Martin Kinsella from P3 put it "now is the time".  And so I'm now raring to go again, and to make sure that whilst the official programme may have ended, now is the time to forge ahead and support lots of new ambassadors across all social enterprise and across the whole country. After al...

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It was three years ago exactly when I first had my interview to be a Social Enterprise Ambassador and one of the questions posed to me was “How will you measure if you have been successful?”  The night before I had been watching Dragons Den and was furious  with their knock back of a nascent social enterprise.  They filed it neatly under “charity” and “not for profit” and did not understand  the potential for a company to generate a profit and make...

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The furore over the Facebook page set up for Raul Moat and the media frenzy it generated reminded me of many similar problems we faced at Cybermoor a few years ago, before Facebook had even been invented.  Our open discussion forums generated lots of comment from the community on issues affecting their everyday lives and in a tight knit community, some of these topics strayed into areas which were rather unsavoury. Our challenge was to balance the right of people to offer their views with ...

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