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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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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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Best Email Server Features

2010-09-22 by mjr

I’m putting together a list of email server features that you should look for. I’m thinking: Transport Layer Security support – this successor to SSL means that your connection will be encrypted. You want this so that your email and … Continue reading →

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Audio Processing Tips for ffmpeg

2010-08-25 by mjr

I did some sound file mangling earlier this week. I’ve been using the Bambuser app for Symbian recently to capture some recordings. If you tell their site your User-Agent is a mobile browser, it’ll work OK with free software – … 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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Funding Networking, Coops and SocEnt

2009-12-04 by mjr

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 →

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As One Association Closes, Another Network Begins

2009-12-02 by mjr

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 →

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What’s So Social About Social Enterprise?

2009-03-09 by mjr

Conference This afternoon, I’ll be at What’s So Social About Social Enterprise? in Bristol. In general, I’ll be trying to support the idea that TTLLP and cooperatives in general are necessarily social enterprise. I may ask a few questions about … Continue reading →

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Report on Listening to the Social Entrepreneur

2008-10-13 by mjr

Last Thursday, I was at a conference called Listening to the Social Entrepreneur. Here are some short notes about the plenary session, which were written at the time, along with thoughts on the workshops that I’ve just written up. HCT … Continue reading →

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