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Social entrepreneurship on the bank of river Thames
Hi! We are kaospilots, school for social entrepeneurs and creative business. We will be blogging here at the website of Ode and let you share in our daily discoveries. I could spend few pages explaining about our school and what we do, or I could give you a link http://www.kaospilots.nl and let you do the work of reading.
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…and now they blog.

Social Entrepreneurship on the bank of river Thames
The sun surely shone last weekend, as if trying to confirm the title of the London located unconference; Shine!

And it's participants also shone brightly, discussing and collaborating on diverse topics related to Social Entrepreneurship. Ideas were shared, business cards exchanged and friendship formed amongst those largely English but also International participants.

The KaosPilots, being such a strong evidence of new and emerging force of social entrepreneurship, obviously saw that their contribution was needed so 5 of the KaosPilots Netherlands traveled to London's Southbank to spice up the unconference.
The KaosPilots's input was mostly in form of energizers with a time slot around tea-time on Saturday where Shine's participants discovered their inner Samurai and with another session in the closing of the day, called Mystery slot, where the attendees unveiled their drawing skills after having yelled their lungs out. But the KaosPilots also individually visited workshops and brainstorms and tried to give their fresh point of view.
They were therefore tired, the 5 pilots that took the EuroStar train back home to Rotterdam after non-stop brainstorming, non-stop networking and non-stop partying.
Leven is leuk!

Photo credits: pic1: Soe, Cliff and Nicola. Taken by Jason Quin pic2: Carianne and David. Taken by Sara Haq pic3: beach. Taken by Sara Haq pic4: Maor and Nicola. Taken by Nicola Jones
posted by kaospilots on 5/17/2008 7:20 am