Category Archives for Human services

New paper: the Value of Declaring Your Values

A few years ago, shortly after I’d published “Averting Tragedy of the Resource Directory Anti-Commons” in The Cambridge Handbook on Commons Research Innovations, Angie Raymond asked if I would contribute a chapter to a book about environmental knowledge commons.  Governance … Continue reading

02. December 2025 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
Categories: Civic technology, Community Resource Data, Cooperative development, Human services, Just Transition | Leave a comment

Governing the Resource Directory Data Commons

Even for a blog that gets a new post like once a year or less, it’s a bit awkward that I haven’t actually posted on here about the main thing I’ve been working on for the past 10 years – … Continue reading

12. December 2023 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Humanism vs Human Services

Years ago, when I first began to consider the possibility of what would later become the Open Referral Initiative, I reached out to my former colleague Matt Siemer with a question. When we’d worked together at Bread for the City, amid marathon Smiths … Continue reading

10. April 2016 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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