Quick round-up; am in Belfast tomorrow at SSEI so won’t be an end-of-the-week trawl.

– Enjoyed my one day at 2gether08; mixed feedback, but then that’s what you get with a mixed crowd, I guess…and a mixed line-up; networking was great, even if the social media-meets-social good crowd is a realtively small and incestuous one. Do check out the site for video of the sessions and speakers: there was a lot there….include myself and Cliff from UnLtd now in full technicolour video apparently….

– At the event last night, they announced the New Statesman New Media Award winners. Check out the list here, including two SSE Fellow-led/involved organisations, Patient Opinion and School of Everything. Congratulations to Paul Hodgkin and Andy Gibson (and the rest of Everything), as well as all the other nominees, which included SSE Fellow Nathalie McDermott for the excellent SavvyChavvy

– Am not avoiding talking about this, but easier to check out previous posts, or my comments on Rob’s blog for my two-pence worth of views….

– Doing very nicely by doing good: the Economist’s take on microfinance making macro profits

– Room to Read founder John Wood featured in the Sunday Times; interesting feature on an amazing organisation

– Lots on social enterprises in the health sphere and pensions….check it out on Third Sector et al. You’ll be glad to know you can TUPE yourself over. For nurse-led stuff, you’d do well to check out Entreprenurses (and their recent 5-part podcast), the fount of all knowledge and expertise on the subject

– Finally, self-referential link news: this blog got picked up by New Start (who also have a decent article on ‘accidental social entrepreneurs‘) and, halcyon days indeed, Social Enterprise Coalition‘s Media Monitor….