Hey people!

If you look through my last few posts, you'll see they're in Chinese! I've been posting them as a part of my Language for Professional Communication class. Yesterday's post about social entrepreneurs reminded me that, in all the talk of other social enterprises and their founders, I hadn't really talked about my company, OrangeMouth, the entire point of this blog! 

My presentation for this unit is at noon today so this is a bit last minute, but I shot a quick mini-intro for OrangeMouth (in Mandarin of course) for fun late yesterday, and thought it would be a nice way to wrap up all the Chinese posts. 

If anyone is interested, the transcript of the text is in the description box. 

Enjoy! (:

朋友们好！对不起，我今天没有一盘短片陪

我觉得 是一个铁别殊种的人要成为社会企业家。

上边 有一张拼贴。他们都是社会企业家， 都有共性的独特。今天，我去讨论一下一些的那独特。


旗帜

1. 谆谆的
2. 领导：一领导会编组
3. 省/现实
4. 感召

Wow! These character traits are really difficult to describe in Mandarin! :p

Dedication: Many people talk about being passionate about your work. I do agree that you should love what you do, however, there comes a time when passion fades. That's when dedication starts. There will be many an all-nighter to pull when starting a business, and I think that's part of what keeps you there when the passion has cooled down a bit. 

Leadership skills: It takes a leader to run a team, and that's what any social enterprise is, a team. A good leader works alongside their employees and leads by example. 

Carrying on in the same vein, a social entrepreneur must be someone who can inspire others, call them to action. If they are unable to do this even in small settings (for example with friends), how they they compel a much larger audience to believe in their vision?

Phew! And those are just three of the qualities one would expect in a company founder. My brain is still whirring thinking of qualities that are good and qualities that are necessary for a social entrepreneur to possess, so I'll likely revisit this topic again in a few weeks. Keep an eye out for it! 

Until next time! (:

上次帖子是关于中国的社会企业。我们今天去 推究社会企业的基本的原理，三重底线 (the triple bottom line) 还是人的性球的利润 (people, planet, profit).

请看那下的短片（是英文的）。

Today we look at social enterprise in China and its connection to social enterprise in the UK.

这个题目我后面还要讲，但是有一个小的介绍（关于在那里可以看到社企的例子）。下面有新加坡和台湾的社会企业。

大家好！

我今天要介绍你们 “社会企业。” 我的公司- OrangeMouth - 是一个社会企业，但这种的商业有什么意思？我找到这盘短片开设介绍 社会企业。

我觉得社会企业是一个特殊种的商业 因为没有定义。Ok， 有了，但是没有一个定评的。 每个人持有不同意见。比如：

根据百度， 社会企业是：

”社会企业不是纯粹的企业，亦不是一般的社会服务，社会企业透过商业手法运作，赚取利润用以贡献社会。它们所得盈余用于扶助弱势社群、促进小区发展及社会企业本身的投资。它们重视社会价值，多于追求最大的企业盈利。”


根据 Wikipedia：

“社会企业（英文：social enterprise），是这样的一种企业，它将商业策略最大程度运用于改善人类和环境生存条件而非为外在的利益相关者谋取最大利益。社会企业的法人身分可以是营利性质的，也可以是非营利性质的，并且，它的表现形式也可能是共同合作模式、成熟的组织构架、非独立实体， 社会商业或者慈善组织。“


那些的 定义 内容相仿，但不一样。尽管没有一个公认的定义，社企都显出共同的特征。


1。社会还是环保的目的
2。[大部分的]利润是贸易来的
3。利润再投资

As you may be able to deduct from the picture, I'm a student at the University of Portsmouth, pursing a degree in International Development Studies and Languages (ok, so the last part might not be glaringly obvious from just the photo). It just so happens that the language happens to be Mandarin. In the final year of a degree (or half a degree in my case) in Languages, one of the required classes is Language for Professional Communication. 

As delightful as all of that information isn't, the real question here is obvious, "Can you say(read, write, understand, cook, wear, etc) something in Chinese/Mandarin?" Yes I can, but please let me finish explaining what's going on first.*

For this Language for Professional Communication class we're required to pick a topic and present on it in Chinese at the end of the semester. Thing is, it's not just as simple as a presentation. We have to do a video, podcast, create a website, brochures, etc. to accompany said presentation. 

WELL! The end of the semester (and uni life) is fast approaching, so it seemed best to get a move on. As it turns out, I already have a website, so have decided to write some pieces (and perhaps a video or two) in Chinese on my chosen topic - social enterprise - and post them on this blog, as OrangeMouth falls quite securely under that scope (and would undoubtedly be the subject of several of the entries). 

And that's it for today, but keep an eye out for some bi-lingual posts in the near future! 

Remember to #livepositive! 

* 什么。 

This year, I started a business - OrangeMouth Co. - a social enterprise, with a focus on Emotional and Mental Health Awareness. 

OrangeMouth already has a website and Facebook page, this blog will be about my experiences starting the business - the good, the bad, and the orange. 

OM also has a blog, you'll definitely want to check it out! We post on Tunesdays (you get it when you see it!), and soon regularly on Fridays, and videos on Sundays. 

See you in a bit!