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Annual Reporting: (2012-2013) Madison, Wisconsin

I visited Madison, Wisconsin three times over the past year, with two different purposes: to train as a “cooperative developer,” and to study the practice of “coproduction.” Cooperatives The first purpose for my visit to Madison was the CooperationWorks! Cooperative Business Development … Continue reading

06. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Wisconsin Ideas.

written towards the end of 2012… I remember from history class, in our studies on American federalism, learning about how the states are “the laboratories of democracy” — but I only just discovered that this phrase was actually coined about … Continue reading

06. December 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Towards a Community Data Commons

Thanks to Code for America for inviting me to submit this paper as a chapter of their new book, Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Civic Innovation. I’m at CfA’s summit in San Francisco this week, and I’ll be posting … Continue reading

15. October 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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About the community resource directory data problem…

Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about what I call, wonkily, ‘the community resource directory data problem’ — by which I mean: information about the services that exist in a community, and the challenges posed by the collection … Continue reading

15. October 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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