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8th Gathering of Social Enterprise Alliance

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Maybe I'll see you in Long Beach! I just an email noting that online registration for the Gathering closes tomorrow. I'm already registered (well, I am on the board), but thought I'd remind my buddies who are planning on attending to register now.

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Spooling up for Day One of the Gathering

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Then the Social Enterprise Institute (which is also a part of our local host committee) is taking attendees on a cruise around the Long Beach Harbor. I'm one of three people here from Benetech, and I'll be attending the hybrid form meeting while Peggy Gibbs and Barbara Morrison told me they were going to the earned income workshop.

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Getting Ready for the Gathering

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, I'm heading to Long Beach tomorrow looking forward to more of that camaraderie and shared learning. This moved me to volunteer to be on the founding board of what has turned into the Social Enterprise Alliance, a foolhardy move I still don't regret!

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High Tech Approaches for Building Social Enterprise:

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I just got back last night from an SEA board meeting in Long Beach, California, where the next annual meeting will be held. The SER is one of the leading publications in the social enterprise field, and I think it's now one of the membership benefits of joining the Social Enterprise Alliance.

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Gathering: looking back

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Dave McDonough and the local host committee also did a terrific job of making our stay in Long Beach exciting. Dave more or less froze on the Long Beach harbor tour, drinking ice cold beer in shirt sleeves while many people wore heavy coats or hid belowdeck where it was warmer and out of the wind!

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Tuesday at the Gathering

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Gonna Take You on a SEA Cruise The Social Enterprise Institute took us on a cruise tour of the Long Beach harbor, which features the Queen Mary, a Russian sub, lots of cargo ships and a few "islands" that are really disguised oil drilling rigs. Why would someone creating a social enterprise pick one of another form?