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Category Archives: Cooperatives
Phones, Privacy and Co-ops
And now a slightly longer than usual rant: The problem with the o2 network disclosing mobile browsers’ phone numbers that I repeated 2 days ago (and it appeared on our co-op website) snowballed yesterday to the point that it was … Continue reading
The New UK Co-op Bill: In Praise Of Diversity
I’ve given my reaction to yesterday’s announcement by the prime minister in my blog on the Co-operatives UK website. If you want to comment and can’t do so there, comments can be left on this article too.
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Growing Your Co-operative, Bristol
Last Friday (11 November 2011), I was at the Cooperatives-SW annual conference at the Cube Cinema in Bristol, titled “Growing Your Co-operative” and sponsored by the Co-operative Membership South and West. It was another sold-out event, featuring headline talks from … Continue reading
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Tagged bristol, co-op, community, conference, cooperatives, event, meeting, networking, social enterprise
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RISE Faces Demutualisation Threat at EGM
The RISE co-op is the sole shareholder in the Social Enterprise Mark CIC and its members have been called to an Extraordinary General Meeting during the lunch break of next Tuesday’s “Knowing and Growing” conference at UWE Bristol. The RISE … Continue reading
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Tagged board, co-op, consultation, cooperative, meeting, RISE, social enterprise
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Tour of Britain: Cheddar Gorge-ous
So tired, but so happy. Well worth it as a day out. Yesterday I went to the Tour of Britain as it passed through Cheddar Gorge. It was a fairly social trip, riding along with two from Bristol on the … Continue reading
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Help with co-op development? Don’t ask here
The blog is back. We’ve moved it to our new blog hosting (please contact us if you’d like us to host your blog – or if you spot a problem with our blog), so the adverts are gone and I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, co-op, cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, legalities, social enterprise, somerset
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#coops14 continues: Guardian, Facebook, Cyberunions and Breakfast
Thanks to the Guardian for publishing Why co-operatives matter written by two members of our co-op. Also today, I’m pictured being given a share by Giles Simon of our national co-ordinating co-op on the Co-operatives Fortnight Facebook page. I’m not … Continue reading
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Tagged business, conference, cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, coops14, event, guardian, Koha, kohails, podcast, press, review, uk
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Co-operatives Fortnight and Congress 2011 (#coops14 and #cc11)
It’s Co-operatives Fortnight until 9 July and our co-op is supporting many events: This afternoon (Wednesday 29 June), we’ll be at Co-operative lending and ethical investment in Bristol; Tomorrow, we’ll be at a Co-operative Business Breakfast in Glastonbury; Next Friday, … Continue reading
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Tagged co-op, conference, cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, event, social enterprise, software
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Re: Cyberunions Podcast: Building links with the Co-operative Movement
John Atherton sent me a link to cyberunions discussing open-source and worker co-ops. In general, it’s a very good show and worth a listen by anyone from the union movement, in my opinion. It’s available in Ogg as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged business, co-op, community, cooperatives, debian, free software, internet, networking, ogg, phone, podcast, software, trade unions, voip
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Standing for election, times 2 or 3, plus public access wifi
It’s a bit quiet on this blog recently because I’m busy with lots of non-software tasks, including: I am standing for election to the UK Worker Co-operative Council. Thank you to software.coop for the nomination and help. Voters can ask … Continue reading
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Tagged co-op, cooperative, cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, foss, free software, internet, isp, mobile, networking
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