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A Provocation….

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Neoliberalism demands that more and more of the working population tolerate a lack of job security, evince flexibility, and revise customary ways of doing things. Workers must be comfortable living off short-term projects secured through whatever means necessary—ceaseless networking and bootlicking, ruthless leveraging of friends and family contacts, spinning a series of half-truths on a résumé—and they must be more or less self-motivated to produce, to regard themselves as creative forces, to generate economic value in every aspect of how they live, instrumentalizing it all.

http://nplusonemag.com/the-accidental-bricoleurs

I absolutely encourage you to read the full article.  Identity, brand, social networking…

Revenue & Project Funding for Social Enterprise Voluntary & Community Organisations

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In these days of cut-backs and restricted funding opportunities has the time come to consider loan finance and other forms of borrowing?
When is it better to borrow and how have other organisations successfully used borrowed money to fund their community projects and social businesses?
Looking for answers to these and many other concerns relating to borrowing?
Then why not join Key Fund at one of the following free Borrowing Workshops?
  • Legal forms for Social Enterprise
  • Loans and other forms of finance
  • Sourcing finance
  • Risk considerations
  • Assessing finance needs
  • Case Studies and examples
7th July 2011
Tiger 11
Beeston Road
Leeds
LS11 8ND
9:30 am – 12:30am
Places are strictly limited so be sure to book early to avoid disappointment!
For more information or to book your place
Contact: Jane Ibbotson – 0114 242 8909  Or email: Jane.Ibbotson@thekeyfund.co.uk

Elsie is Born…

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I seem to have been a bit quiet on this blog, while I have been doing other things, including pushing Progress School along, working on Collaborate Leeds and incubating a new idea which has finally found the light of day today:

The Leeds Community Enterprise Accelerator or Elsie for short.  This provides a community based network of support to local enterprise coaches, advisors, facilitators, in fact to anyone who is helping someone else in the community to make progress.

I have high hopes for Elsie in post Business Link austerity economy.  I think it will provide a sustainable high value model to provide practical crowd sourced enterprise support to those that most want and need it.

Have a look at Elsie and tell me what you think.

The Power of Collaboration

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It seems to me that there is little more important to the quality of community than the ability to collaborate.  I think it was Kevin Kelly who first said that

Access is better than ownership.

Collaboration has the potential to allow us to access skills, ideas, money, labour, resources and allows us to achieve things that would be impossible if we did not learn how to collaborate.

  • So what can we do that helps to build our ability to collaborate across the city?
  • What can we do to collaborate over consumption and ownership?
  • What can we do to collaborate over creativity and production?

Today a small group is meeting in Leeds to explore some of the se questions and see just what if anything can be done to make Leeds a more collaborative city.

I look forward to seeing what comes from it.