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About six months ago when we first heard there was an international Masters in Social Innovation being pioneered in a little university town in Austria, we thought it sounded like exactly the type of thing we should check out. Read more
One of the most popular tweets at the RMIT Global Shifts social enterprise conference in Melbourne last December was along the lines of “the best way to start a social enterprise is to just go and do it”.
There is a lot to be said for ‘just doing it’. Social entrepreneurs by nature are people who have a big idea, take a risk and don’t give up. But ‘just doing it’ without appropriate planning and strategy is a dangerous approach. Read more
“Transcend parochialism” caught my eye before I read the first sentence of Ben Hecht’s recent blog ‘Collaboration is the New Competition’ in the Harvard Business Review. His argument is simple and makes amazing sense: collaboration – whatever sector you work in – has collective impact that individual competitors cannot match. Read more
Once upon a time I considered blogs and online conversations to be an interesting way to communicate to all sorts of people and organisations about the issues we’re passionate about at The Dragonfly Collective – social justice, social change and innovation in all its forms. Good dialogue, different points of view, open conversation.
Recently I encountered a very different space. Read more
The Dragonfly Collective officially opened our doors to the world on 1 March 2012 and celebrates nine months as a social venture as we approach Christmas and the New Year. We have been honoured to work with a number of people and organisations in the not-for-profit and social enterprise sector. Read more