Monthly Archives: November 2008

Bristol Cooperatives and Social Enterprise Trade Fair on Monday

Cooperatives-SW is working in partnership with the Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise (RISE) to hold a Trade Fair with support from CDA (BRAVE Ltd.), Social Enterprise Works, Co-opportunity and Watershed Media Centre. It will be held on Monday 1 December … Continue reading

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Please Vote for Weston Woods Path tel:+448716268156 (10p)

I spent the second half of this morning delivering leaflets asking people to vote for the Weston Woods Path Project in today’s itv People’s Millions Big Lottery Fund competition. Just £50,000 gets a smooth, fairly flat, surfaced and edged path … Continue reading

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Broadband Service Changes at ThePhoneCoop

It’ll be going out as a letter anyway, but broadband users who have usernames containing @phonecoop may like to read the announcement about changing uplink suppliers. There have been some other changes at The Phone Co-op which I’m asking about … Continue reading

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Which Social Bookmarking?

Since changes to Firefox made exporting bookmarks from Ice* a pain, I’m trying to find a social bookmarking site that is:- run on free software provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK) provides all … Continue reading

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The Carbon Co-op: Vote for Social Innovation

I live in one of a cluster of a dozen or so houses. As far as I can tell, none of them have any micro-generation capability (I think one has working solar panels and one has defunct panels), but we … Continue reading

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Libraries, Cooperatives, OCLC and TTLLP

Thanks to Koha, TTLLP is partly a library services worker cooperative and just now there’s a massive flame-storm about the largest library services consumer cooperative – OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center – because it just updated the terms for … Continue reading

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National Maintenance Week

This week (21-28 November) is National Maintenance Week. Do a bit of maintenance on your home this week yourself and save a bit of money, as well as improving the appearance of your local community. National Gutters Day is next … Continue reading

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Social Enterprise Day: Online Discussion

I’m sceptical about Global Enterpreneurship Week after last year’s problems, but today is Social Enterprise Day, so I’ve tried to get involved with the WalesCoop Ethical Entrepreneurs Online Discussion from 1-2pm and 7-8pm today. Come join us!

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SPI Nov 2008 Meeting

The next Software in the Public Interest board meeting will take at 2000 UTC (noon PST / 15:00 EST / 20:00 GMT / 21:00 CET) on Wednesday 19 November 2008 on irc.oftc.net #spi. The agenda is online, but I’ve not … Continue reading

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How to Check Web Shops for Basic Security

I just had a very nice chat on the phone with a man whose first attempt at online shopping seemed to have resulted in a fraudster using his card to buy mobile phone top-ups. I don’t understand why he called us (it wasn’t one of my web shops), but I hope I did the […] Continue reading

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