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Growing Your Co-operative, Bristol

2011-11-14 by mjr

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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RISE Faces Demutualisation Threat at EGM

2011-10-27 by mjr

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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Help with co-op development? Don’t ask here

2011-09-09 by mjr

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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Co-operatives Fortnight and Congress 2011 (#coops14 and #cc11)

2011-06-29 by mjr

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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Re: Cyberunions Podcast: Building links with the Co-operative Movement

2011-06-21 by mjr

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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Standing for election, times 2 or 3, plus public access wifi

2011-05-03 by mjr

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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Report on TravelWatch SouthWest General Meeting 9 Oct 2010

2010-10-13 by mjr

I attended this meeting last Saturday, taking up the Cooperatives-SW invitation (we have been invited before, as reported on this blog). It was held, once again, at SCAT in Taunton. First, we had introductions from everyone. The Go! Co-op rail … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming Attractions

2010-09-09 by mjr

Members of our co-op will be attending: North Somerset Cycle Forum, Yatton, Somerset, 9 September 2010 A Roundtable Discussion about Bristol City Council’s Future Web Platform (#BCCWeb), Bristol, 10 September 2010 Futures North, Leeds, 11 September 2010 Bristol Business Show, … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back

2010-08-19 by mjr

I’m back. Where have I been? I was in Portishead, Plymouth and Taunton in Co-operatives Fortnight back in late June/early July. I seemed to spend July flat out with work trying to catch up again, then I fell ill just … Continue reading →

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Doing Business the Co-operatives 2010 Way

2010-06-27 by mjr

Co-operatives 2010 On Friday, I was at this event in Plymouth. The basics of it are pretty well covered by John Atherton’s blog post. I led one of open surgeries on use of Social Media, which I’m going to try … Continue reading →

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