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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
Categories: Annual Reporting |
Tags: cooperatives, organizizing, timebanking, Wisconsin Ideas |
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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
Categories: Stories |
Tags: cooperatives, history, organizizing, travel |
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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
Categories: Community Resource Data, DC, Stories |
Tags: 211, commons, community informatiics, cooperatives, writing |
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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
Categories: Community Resource Data, DC |
Tags: 211, Bread for the City, commons, cooperatives, hacking, writing |
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