Earth from an orbital time lapse perspective

One of the prominent guest at the Global Social Business Summit in Vienna in November was astronaut and social entrepreneurship spokes person Ron Garan. On a huge screen, with massive sound he showed several movie clips from his recent journey into space. The most fascinating movie clip was the one you can watch above.

Ron and his astronaut friends have started the social entrepreneurial initiative the Fragile Oasis.

“It is very difficult to look at our beautiful Earth from space without being moved in some way. One of the main goals of Fragile Oasis is to share this orbital perspective and inspire people to go out and make a difference; to go out and somehow make life better for those with whom they share this fragile oasis. The Fragile Oasis community was established to unite in the common goal of sharing our humanity and improving our world. Let us inspire, recognize, and help each other in our collective quest to make life better on our planet.”

Try to say no to that after having seen the movie clip. Fragile indeed!

xo,
Evelina

Starting to spread the word about our research

I’m very excited to announce that we (as in Michael Bauer-Leeb and I) are preparing to go out and talk about our research on facilitating business relationships between social entrepreneurs and business angels.

This is what I dreamt about all last year, during the reading and writing, to tell people about our findings. And perhaps more importantly – to engage in dialogue on how to develop the sphere of social entrepreneurship. And definitely most important – to conduct better business in order to take better care of ourselves and our planet.

Here are some of the topics we’re going to talk about.

  • What is social entrepreneurship (and why it is so difficult to define), and its role in the currently changing economic paradigms.
  • How to enhance communication between social entrepreneurs and investors and increase social entrepreneurs’ chances of finding an investor.
  • Differences between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship.
  • How can my business benefit from including social and environmental, along side profit seeking in the core business.

Read more over at The Good Tribe.

Let me know if you have any interesting and fun people we should talk to! :)

In general I’m very proud to say that there’s loooootttss of stuff happening behind the scenes in The Good Tribe right now. Stay tuned!

Have a great weekend!

xo,

Evelina

Photo: Rupert Pessl

One of my first workshops in German

It’s always a bit nervous for me to speak German in public, when a lot of people are listening. No exception on Monday, when The Good Tribe had its workshop premiere in Vienna. German is after all my third language, and getting all the verbs right is a horror. But it was so much fun to be back in the facilitator role (after a year of only reading and writing,  and very little workshop facilitation) that I soon forgot being nervous and focused on the task.

Our task in Vienna was to provide Social Impact Award’s idea generation workshop with our two methods: Sparks (intense and fun getting to know each other) and Vision board (find your professional path in life). We got great feedback on both methods from the participant. Sparks is like always a hit (it really always works perfectly!), and it was absolutely great to see how hard everyone worked on their vision boards, first silent and smiling and then in vivid discussions.

A big thank you to the participants and the Social Impact Award team for having us! Again to all of you who participated: if you have ideas or questions, please contact us :)

Later this spring, on the 12th and 19th of March to be exact, The Good Tribe will support Social Impact Award with pitch trainings. More information to come!

xo,

Evelina

Photo: Michael Koschutnig

The Good Tribe co-organizing idea generation workshop on Monday

On Monday, 16th of January The Good Tribe co-organize an idea generation workshop with the Social Impact Award team. Our aim is to guide you through the experience of generating ideas to solve social problems. The workshop is open for everyone, and extra super perfect if you want to participate in the Social Impact Award competition later this spring. It doesn’t matter if you already have an idea or not, the workshop will take your idea (and your thinking about your future!) to a whole new level!

When: Mon, 16.1. 2011, 5pm
Where: The HUB Vienna
Register: Sign up via Facebook or send an email to chaska.armbruster [at] googlemail [dot] com.

If you want to prepare yourself for the workshop, think about the following question: What annoys the hell out of you? The answer to this question might be your most important clue to your future entrepreneurial activities evahhhh.

I’m really looking forward to see you on Monday! This is the first workshop we’re organizing in Vienna :)

xo,

Evelina

Master’s thesis’s executive summary online

Collage featuring my broken nails, the executive summary on The Good Tribe’s blog and my nervous breakdown on Skype.

This turned into a real nail biter ;) I usually don’t bite my nails. But tonight I really did…

Our BIG master’s thesis draft on how to facilitate a business relationship between social entrepreneurs and business angels is ready – and the executive summary is online on The Good Tribe’s blog. This is our most humble Xmas gift to all social entrepreneurs, social and commercial business angels, impact and social investors out there, trying to facilitate well working business relationship, and of course a taste of our full master’s thesis.

How on earth am I going to be able to sleep now!? I’ve been looking forward to this day for over a year! Amazing feeling!

I’m also incredibly tired. When I wrote the preface I got so emotional that I started to cry…

Perhaps shutting off the computer is a nice way of starting to relax… tomorrow will also be a busy day.

Happy reading