Posted by Stuart Parker in NBSE, Social Enterprise, social media.
Tags: birminghamuk, E-Skills, employment, funding, north birmingham, research, Social Enterprise, social media
One initial thought is whether we are reinventing the wheel here. Is this kind of thing already happening?
E-Skills UK is currently working on a 5 year strategic plan and the latest revision has some interesting stuff, only after a quick five minute scan, already there are loads of thoughts popping into my mind on how our proposed venture can tackle some of the issues raised. I’ve also found myself going “but what about this?” and “why don’t they talk about that?”. Anyway, i’ll post some more on the plan when I’ve had chance to have a good read.
There are many different avenues our project can take but from my own point of view, the E-Skills things seems pretty relevant and to answer my original question. ” What took us so long to get started?”
Posted by Kevin Rapley in NBSE, Tagging.
Tags: birminghamuk, tag, Tagging, tags
As well as tagging our blog posts with relevant words according to what we are writing about, we are also using specific tags that will be propagated in places that are either relative to Birmingham or social enterprises. At the moment, as far as I am aware, we are just using these special tagging phrases so that we will be displayed on UpyerBrum. UpyerBrum propagates tags that either use birminghamuk or upyerbrum. The birminghamuk tag gets placed in the Items tagged from around the web: category. Users of upyerBrum may then decide to vote for it to be a top story. Whereas upyerbrum gets placed in the Popular stories voted for by you: category automatically, bypassing the voting stage. Relevant, and we hope, enciteful posts that we feel are news worthy will be added to the latter. We will reserve birminghamuk tags for posts which, like this post, are just mentioning a method of social media application or that is less news worthy.
If you know of any other tagging conventions that we should be using to target particular websites please leave your comments below.
Posted by Kevin Rapley in Call for help, Facebook, Meeting, Social Enterprise.
Tags: birminghamuk, Facebook, Meeting, NBSE, north birmingham social enterprise, upyerbrum
There will be a meeting to discuss the specific direction that the NBSE model will be heading in. We will need to form a strong structure before a business plan and funding can be established and this will be carried out after the findings from the meet.
If you would like to be involved, are passionate about North Birmingham or feel you could add knowledge on gaining public funding and/or building a social enterprise please join our Facebook group and come along to the meeting.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday 11th June at a location to be confirmed.
Posted by Kevin Rapley in Facebook, NBSE, Social Enterprise, social media.
Tags: birmingham bloggers, birminghamuk, Facebook, Social Enterprise, social enterprise model, social media
As the purpose of the North Birmingham Social Enterprise will be to introduce social media to the community, we will be using social media in order to raise awareness of what we are doing in making the enterprise happen. To kick this off, this morning I setup a Facebook group that will allow us to post up meeting dates and discuss items in a more conversational way than what can be achieved on the blog. Although this blog is not to be in any way formal, the Facebook group will be even more so. I have left the group open so that anyone who is interested in contributing may come along and do so. In order to make the group accessible to the whole UK I have set the location to Global (a specific location or Global is required). Why Global? I have seen problems with using groups before with people wanting to join a group which is only set to a certain geographic region. I don’t wish to alienate anyone who may be able to give us some guidance on funding or the social enterprise model.
Fortunately Stuart and I, being members of the Birmingham Bloggers group, we have a ready made platform of individuals who are involved in social media and may have knowledge of the social enterprise model. Therefore I sent a group email round to the Birmingham Bloggers to let them know about what we have planned, provided them with a link to the group and asked if they would like to be involved.
Posted by Stuart Parker in Social Enterprise, chat with us, social media.
Tags: birminghamuk, introduction, NBSE, north birmingham social enterprise, stuart parker, upyerbrum
I guess initially I’m excited by the engagement potential that social media has to offer. Furthermore, I can see the potential it has within lifelong learning, health matters and unemployment within the community. I’ve found that i’m already implementing some of this stuff so it was a case of sourcing out some like minded individuals to see if we can progress on some of the ideas.
I’m currently looking into funding options, qualification accreditation and ‘Communities of Practice’ as a potential delivery model…or something like that … Key words for me this morning are Engagement, Empowerment & Confidence!
By the way, I don’t foresee my blog posts as being formal. As we’re using it as a reference tool too, I need to just get the stuff down pretty quickly.
The Social Enterprise option came about because both me and Kevin are keen for this project to benefit our local communities. We hope we can find support for our endevours!
