We caught up with Climate Karanga Marlborough member Leon Jay at the Open Source//Open Society Conference in Wellington. They are helping reduce climate change in Marlborough by rapidly prototyping ideas using online collaboration.
We use Loomio to communicate between members and prototype different ideas to reduce climate change and lower our impact.
Sharing Ideas and Getting on the Same Page
If you’re trying to work together as a group of citizens, it’s great if you’re all heading in the same direction. But if one person’s doing one thing and one person’s doing another, you’re taking a scatter-gun approach. Continue reading Rapid Prototyping for Community Impact
Friday Dec 2, 4:00 PM
Documentary Screening: A New Economy
Join us for the New Zealand Premiere of an inspiring new film featuring Loomio alongside other cooperative organisations.
“What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch, as several organisations strive towards building a more cooperative future.”
Friday Dec 2, 7:00 PM
Loomio’s 5th Birthday Party
Join us in our new office at 17 Garrett Street (level 2), to celebrate the journey of the last five years, and look forward to the next five years.
Doors open at 7PM. At 7:30 we’ll have a few words from the team.
Tuesday Dec 6, 11:30 AM
Free Training Workshop
Let us help you get the most from Loomio! We go over the basics of setting up your group, onboarding and engaging group members, and using proposals to build shared understanding. Learn how other groups are using Loomio, and tips to help improve your group’s collaboration experience.
Special Offer for Local Organisations
Successful team collaboration and stakeholder engagement online takes skill and experience. In partnership with a network of consultants and experienced online facilitators, Loomio offers a customised services tailored to your needs.
Following the recent earthquakes we stayed out of our office while safety checks were carried out, like most in Wellington. However, apart from feeling a bit shaken, we were able to maintain business continuity through online collaboration. If you have been displaced and would like to know how to stay productive together even if you’re unable to meet physically.
Here in New Zealand we’ve been shaken by a 7.5 earthquake, while the world has been shaken politically.
Loomio co-founder Alanna
Luckily our team is safe after the quake, apart from a couple things knocked off shelves. A lot of people are feeling knocked off balance in their understanding of the world right now, and we’re right there with you.
Real social change doesn’t come from going to the polls once every few years. Nor does it come from clicking around social media in polarised bubbles. It comes from feeling heard enough that you’re open to changing your mind. It comes from really knowing and committing to each other as fellow citizens and human beings.
How might it be different if elections were more like Loomio, with a context box, an abstain option, and a block button? Imagine a constructive deliberation, where you changed your position through really listening to others. Imagine if we considered the whole pie chart….Continue reading News November 2016: Imagine if Elections Worked More like Loomio
In a self-managed company, everyone is a decision-maker. You need an effective process that enables group input while empowering individuals to act – and effective tools for running it.
The Advice Process in one sentence:
Every person can make a decision, as long as they seek advice from those who will be meaningfully affected and people with relevant expertise.
Loomio has been picked as part of a suite of tools promoted by Together We Work, a campaign to empower young workers to take collective action. Together We Work was launched at the White House event in an inspiring and optimistic message of change from Carmen Rojas, CEO of The Workers Lab.
Democracy at Work is a non-profit that works to democratize the workplace, as a viable solution for a new and better economic system. We’re proud to be a D@W co-op partner!
Read the first of a two-part profile of Loomio by D@W – interview of Alanna from Loomio, by Betsy Avila.
“We want to have impact with our product, but we also think the way we’ve structured our company and how we work is part of our social mission.” …read more
Six Circles for Harmless Organising: A rough cut of a talk that co-founder Rich Bartlett is developing to explain some of the cultural forms we use to organise without bosses.
Our Dynamic Org Chart
Every quarter, the Loomio co-op members collectively set objectives, and then self-organise into working groups to achieve them. If you’re curious about how all this works, read more in the Co-op Handbook.
Rory Ridley-Duff is a reader in cooperatives and social enterprise at Sheffield Business School, director of Social Enterprise Europe, and founder of the FairShares Association. They use Loomio to model their governance structure online, for effective, equitable stakeholding.
We open source not only our software code, but our organisation too. Our impact mission is about democratic engagement, inclusive participation, and equitable collaboration, so that’s how we work as a company internally.
VIDEO: Co-founder Alanna launches the co-op handbook and talks about “Open Source Organisational Development” at the Open Source // Open Society Conference
Upgraded plans!
The free version of Loomio offers unlimited users and decisions. But did you know about the great premium features available on our upgraded plans?
The Standard Plan offers Slack integration and your own custom domain name.
The Pro Plan gives you up to 10 groups, with data analytics and export features.
From now on, we’re phasing out free trials. Instead, everyone will start on the free plan and upgrade when ready. If you’re on a trial, you’ll be automatically moved to the free plan on September 19, unless you decide to upgrade.
News & Stories Featuring Loomio
Figuring Out the Freelance Economy “Maybe, when equality is its premise, work need not be segregated from life, from the ambitions and needs of our actual selves.”
Chelsea Rustrum is the author of It’s a Shareable Life, the founder of a social and educational series in the Silicon Valley, dubbed The Sharers. Her current interest is in how the sharing economy can be integrated into value distribution models, which share ownership amongst the value creators themselves.
We use Loomio to communicate between members and prototype different ideas to reduce climate change and lower our impact.
How the FairShares Association Makes 
A New Economic Vision That Mixes Together Occupy, Amish Culture, and Startups
