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Data Commoners: December 2010
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A blog to communicate about the Data Commons Project and keep track of progress creating the Data Commons Cooperative, a hybrid worker and consumer owned cooperative providing data services to members of the rooted economy. Sunday, December 19, 2010. Thanks to everyone who applied to our project coordinator job posting. We're working through the applications and will be responding as soon as possible. A final decision will be made and applicants notified of the outcome by December 31, 2010. The coordinat...
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Data Commoners: Thanks to applicants!
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A blog to communicate about the Data Commons Project and keep track of progress creating the Data Commons Cooperative, a hybrid worker and consumer owned cooperative providing data services to members of the rooted economy. Sunday, December 19, 2010. Thanks to everyone who applied to our project coordinator job posting. We're working through the applications and will be responding as soon as possible. A final decision will be made and applicants notified of the outcome by December 31, 2010. OnTheCommons&...
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Data Commoners: Whatever happened to Swivel
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A blog to communicate about the Data Commons Project and keep track of progress creating the Data Commons Cooperative, a hybrid worker and consumer owned cooperative providing data services to members of the rooted economy. Thursday, October 14, 2010. Whatever happened to Swivel. Swivel.com was a popular data visualization site that recently failed as a business. Some information is starting to trickle out about what happened, through an interview with its founders. It was single digits. Subscribe to: Po...
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Data Commoners: January 2011
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A blog to communicate about the Data Commons Project and keep track of progress creating the Data Commons Cooperative, a hybrid worker and consumer owned cooperative providing data services to members of the rooted economy. Saturday, January 22, 2011. We're happy to say Joe Marraffino. Has agreed to come aboard as DCP project coordinator. Welcome Joe! For the last seven years Joe has worked for cooperatives within the Arizmendi. And we look forward to working together! Links to this post. The Data Common...
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Politics and Rational Thought, E-gads! | Equitable Principles
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Politics and Rational Thought, E-gads! December 2, 2014. December 2, 2014. A nice article about co-ops popped-up on my radar today; an article about a Mayoral candidate in Chicago! The article, from eNews Park Forest near Chicago, is Chicago Mayoral Candidate Dr. Amara Enyia to Create Stronger Economy through Worker-Owned Cooperatives. The article makes a great case for the link between co-ops and local ownership to healthy local economies. Terrific post by Richard Wolff. Reality Interrupts →. Founder an...
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Equitable distribution | Equitable Principles
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A Glimpse of Cooperation! May 20, 2015. May 20, 2015. Well, don’t I have egg on my face. I glanced through today’s email and noticed that Gar Alperovitz is speaking. Accelerating the Next Evolution. May 19, 2015. May 20, 2015. I’ve been tuned into The Politics of Love and Justice Summit! Brought to you by TheShiftNetwork) This has a lot of spiritual. Politics and Rational Thought, E-gads! December 2, 2014. December 2, 2014. Great Beer Drinking Occasion. July 31, 2014. July 31, 2014. I enjoyed Harpoon,.
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Cooperatives | Equitable Principles
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Cooperatives are in a unique place among business enterprises because they mix the enterprise with democratic principles of control and do not solely seek to maximize profit, but to maximize the benefits to the members, the owners who are the employees in a worker’s co-op. Cooperatives are enterprises that are democratically owned and controlled by the people who benefit from them and are operated collaboratively for the purpose of providing services to these beneficiaries or members. Co-ops come in a wi...
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Diablo Publications Sold to Its Employees | Equitable Principles
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Diablo Publications Sold to Its Employees. February 25, 2015. Diablo Publications has created an Employee Stock Ownership Plan to sell the company to its employees. Walnut Creek, CA (PRWEB) February 24, 2015. There are roughly 9,000 ESOP owned companies in the nation, representing roughly 3.5 million employees. Survey data shows on average, employee-owned firms perform substantially better than nonemployee-owned firms when ownership is combined with employees’ participation in decisions affecting...Coope...
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A Glimpse of Cooperation!! | Equitable Principles
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A Glimpse of Cooperation! May 20, 2015. May 20, 2015. Well, don’t I have egg on my face. I glanced through today’s email and noticed that Gar Alperovitz is speaking at. THE POLITICS OF LOVE and JUSTICE SUMMIT. On Wednesday. Just yesterday I was blathering on that these folks should chat with those folks …. I’ve contacted the Democracy Collaborative. But I viewed any response as a positive, and I’m counting that blow-off email as a sign of support. 😉. The facts are in! The trick then is how to change the...