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Category Archives: Cooperatives
Funding Networking, Coops and SocEnt
As an aside to yesterday’s Another Network Begins note, I should mention that one of the challenges of running any inter-business project is paying for it. It surprises some people that many great cooperative projects are running on very small … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged cabinet office, cooperatives, enterprise, funding, government, networking, social enterprise
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As One Association Closes, Another Network Begins
The Association For Free Software (AFFS) seems to have been finally wound up last week. So long, AFFS was Richard Smedley’s view of it. I actually left four years ago (when I wrote State of the AFFS – site currently … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged affs, business, foss, free and open source software, free software, networking, principle six
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Congratulations Peter Marks, UK Business Leader of the Year
As well as being a member of TTLLP, I’m a member of the Co-operative Group, which (amongst other things) runs the co-operative shops in areas where there is no regional cooperative society, including Weston-super-Mare and Worle. Congratulations to our Chief … Continue reading
PDF: how can we avoid over-using Pretty Difficult Files for citizens?
With the more political/government side of my work for our co-op, I often send emails like this:
“Please can you resend the information as plain text, ISO OpenDocument, html, PDF or something else standardised? OpenOffice.org can load most Microsoft Office and save as ISO OpenDocument and PDFs. If you’re stuck … Continue reading
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Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
I was referred to Creating a World Without Poverty during a discussion on advogato some months ago, but it took rather a long time to obtain the book for various reasons and then I forgot about this review until a … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged advogato, book, book review, cooperatives, corporation, Creating a World Without Poverty, ed mayo, grameen, microfinance, nobel prize, review, socent, social enterprise, uk
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What’s in a name? Co-operative in names at Companies House
This was a Freedom of Information request to Companies House. The request was partially successful. I asked: “How many companies have been incorporated with the word co-operative in their name in the last few years and how many have been … Continue reading
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Tagged company, cooperative, corporation, foi, foia, freedom of information, name, registration
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Three Strikes: Out?
The Guardian reported this week that “rights holders will have to obtain a court order before punishing persistent offenders by reducing or cutting off their internet connections.” This is an important step in the right direction. For too long, rights … Continue reading
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Tagged allegations, cooperative, copyright, disconnection, internet, rights holders, three-strikes, unfair
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Royal Mail Rub Our Noses in it
So after Royal Mail shut down useful community websites causing MP comments on the idiocy of Royal Mail, I was rather surprised to get this little thing in the post today: That’s a postmark advert for “Celebrating 50 years of … Continue reading
FOSS Freeskilling, Bristol, 7pm Tue 13 Oct
Sean Kenny emailed us to tell us about an event in Bristol: “This week’s Freeskilling is called Who needs Microsoft? and we are meeting at the Better Food Co. Cafe, St Werburghs @ 7pm Tues 13th Oct. Ben Smith will … Continue reading
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Tagged better, bristol, cafe, cooperative, food, foss, freeskilling, microsoft, wireless
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