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Tag 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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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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OCLC Record Use: Reboot
Disruptive Library Technology Jester reports that OCLC Formally Withdraws Proposed Record Use Policy. The Series Table of Contents there gives a pretty good history, or you can read my past comments in Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP and OCLC Library … Continue reading
Posted in Koha
Tagged bibliographics, cooperatives, data, database, foss, libraries, oclc, odbl, odc, open source, sharing
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Happy International Day of Cooperatives
Today is the 87th ICA and 15th UN International Day of Cooperatives. There’s a PDF message from the United Nations secretary general. It’s also the start of the Tour de France, which runs for the next 22 days. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged cooperatives, cycling, events, news, OpenMicroBlogging, satellite, streams, tdf, tv, twitter, video
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Small is beautiful or big is better? (#coop09 sw audio download)
There were several interesting conferences last week. An honourable mention to the Worker Co-operative Forum, but the most interesting for me was the Cooperatives-SW annual conference in Plymouth on Tuesday 23 June 2009. This free event was split into three … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, collaborate, cooperatives, debate, download, events, fork, merge, plymouth
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Digital Britain Report: first glance
The Digital Britain Report was published on 16 June 2009. I only got time to look at it quickly recently because this is one of the co-op AGM seasons. At first glance, it misses the mark. It doesn’t do anything … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, GNU/Linux, SPI, ThePhoneCoop
Tagged cooperatives, copyright, digital britain, government, report
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Enterprise Hubs, Societies, Newsletter and AGM
Cooperatives-SW (which I’m currently helping to direct) has been approved for Co-operative Enterprise Hub funding for 2009. Well done to Viv and the rest of the hard-working team who have been doing miracles for co-ops in this region with relatively … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperatives, cooperatives-uk, ips, legislation, llp, online filing, review
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Bristol Social Enterprise Summit Consultation
Last Thursday, I went to the Social Enterprise summit regional workshop that I mentioned. Apparently, SEC are hoping that ministers Mandelson, Purnell, Byrne and Blears will be at the summit, along with people from various famous co-ops. I took along … Continue reading
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Tagged consultation, cooperatives, social enterprise, summit, third sector, ttllp
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Cooperatives-SW Board and Housing Enquiry, Bristol, 6 April 2009
With our AGM in Plymouth rescheduled until June or July, the Cooperatives-SW board will meet in Bristol on Monday. Cooperatives-SW aims to represent co-operative and mutual enterprises in the region. As with previous meetings, if you’d like to meet up … Continue reading