Top 10 Social Entrepreneurship Blogs

Whilst writing a comment on a blog about blogs (and whether they are useful social entrepreneurship resources), I listed a few blogs that I find useful as a resource, as places of debate, or for inspiration. And then it occurred to me that it might be useful to share them.

There is a widely-circulated list of the top 50 social entrepreneur blogs here, but only 2 were UK-based (this SSE blog and Rod Schwartz's below). Mine's UK-focused, but includes some relevant international blogs as well. Cue the music, and in no particular order:

1) The Social Business - Rob Greenland's take on the UK scene is arguably the best in our sector, consistently prompting debates and giving real insights

2) Rod Schwartz / ClearlySo's Social Business Blog - One of the most influential reads in the sector, always writing with full honesty, and challenging the norms

3) Beanbags and Bullshit - David Floyd with a real practitioner's take on things; new-ish, but high quality writing and thought thus far

4) Social Enterprise Ambassador blogs - the Social Enterprise Ambassadors are some of the UK's leading social entrepreneurs, and they've been writing posts more regularly; an enlightening and entertaining mix; (Craig Dearden-Phillips blogs in his own right on his Naked Entrepreneur blog too)

5) Social Entrepreneurship on Change.org- Nathaniel Whittemore writes this and writes it bloody well; consistently interesting, illuminating and with high quality content; US-based, but looking outwards

6) Allison Ogden-Newton's blog - CEO of Social Enterprise London gives it straight in a new, promising blog

7) Social Catalyst - Todd Hannula writes great content; it's a little intermittent at times (hey, it happens to us all), but liking how the new site gives routes into content from previous posts; well worth reading

8) Social Edge blogs - cheating slightly here, but Social Edge hosts a whole load of interesting blogs; have a browse and see what takes your fancy from a US-heavy / international development lot; Forging Ahead and Kiva Chronicles are popular

9) How to Change the World - Guy Kawasaki's blog is very well-known and widely-read; about entrepreneurship rather than social entrepreneurship, there's nevertheless some great stuff here

10) Bubb's Blog - Stephen Bubb, CEO of ACEVO, writes the most talked-about blog in the third sector: entertaining, unashamed and gossipy, it's a good place to get a sense of what's happening in the sector, particularly in the public service delivery / social investment / government space

So there you go. Top Twitter feeds to follow soon....

Comments

[Rob Greenland]

Thanks for the top spot Nick - I think it's the first time I've been first in a list since I was top of the class in third year juniors!

As you point out, the thing that pleases me most about the blog is the debate that takes place. You'll know what the blogosphere is like, there's some great debate out there but there's also a lot of pretty angry stuff that doesn't get us anywhere. Particularly over the last year or so there have been some really useful debates which have had a relevance far beyond my random thoughts.

Thanks

Rob

[Nathaniel Whittemore]

Thanks for the kind words Nick - glad that the perspective is recognized for striving to look outward rather than just at the US!