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Programming for Social Impact(youtube.com)
2 points by loomio 12y ago|0 comments
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by loomio 12y ago
“Taken together, these results suggest that women are likely wearing cosmetics to appeal to the mistaken preferences of others.” The results suggest no such thing. This is a massive assumption. This article misses the most obvious and likel
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Out in the Open: Occupy Wall Street Reincarnated as Open Source Software(wired.com)
1 points by loomio 12y ago|0 comments
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by loomio 12y ago
I'm a bit late to the party but I wanted to mention that in addition to being a tool created to support the kind of collaborative decision-making that happens in cooperative models (which they are using it for at CoLab, as solarlion ki
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by loomio 12y ago
As someone who often appreciates the comments as much or more than the content - yes! I often come across articles in places other than Reddit or HN and wish I could do a "reverse lookup" to see where it might have been submitted
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by loomio 12y ago
If you're serious about learning Japanese, you need to move there. I'm not sure there is any other way to properly understand all the uses of "kakeru" besides simply hearing them all hundreds of times to the point where
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by loomio 12y ago
Hey, thanks so much! We really appreciate the encouragement.
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by loomio 12y ago
Thanks so much! Right from the start, Loomio has been a community-driven project, and we only exist because of everyone's support.
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by loomio 12y ago
It is indeed inspired by consensus decision-making, although the Loomio platform can work for various decision-making protocols not just 100% consensus. It just nudges groups away from strict majority-rules or one-way communication (polls w
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by loomio 12y ago
Hi, thanks for your comments. We launched a functional and useful alpha in early 2012, followed by a public beta in 2013, which was open to everyone to use. 15,000 people have already signed up and people are using the software right now al
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by loomio 12y ago
We were humbled to be able to support you, and it's reaffirmed our belief in the importance of translations and accessibility in the app. All the best to you in Taiwan!
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by loomio 12y ago
Thanks to everyone for checking out Loomio! If anyone has questions, please feel free to ask away (several of the team members have answered a few already).
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by loomio 12y ago
Thank you so much! Your support means a lot :) We've tried to optimise load times but we will try to improve them further.
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Loomio – Crowdfunding a better way to make decisions together(loomio.org)
75 points by loomio 12y ago|42 comments
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by loomio 13y ago
The article focuses on an example of a guy who had totally proved himself with past success, and yet still encountered ageism. Here's how he's introduced: > The most impressive entrepreneur in Scheinman’s portfolio who hadn’t c
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by loomio 13y ago
Oh yes, this must be why leadership positions in business, government, and all areas of life are dominated by women. Oh wait...
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Meet Loomio, the small-scale decision-making platform with the biggest ambitions(money.cnn.com)
1 points by loomio 13y ago|0 comments
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The world needs a better way to make decisions together. Help us build it.(love.loomio.org)
7 points by loomio 13y ago|7 comments
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by loomio 13y ago
We would welcome contributors at Loomio! It's a simple tool for anyone, anywhere to participate in decisions that affect them. We have a big vision of a more democratic world at every level. http://www.loomio.org
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Why women are integral to the success of the open source movement(blog.loomio.org)
1 points by loomio 13y ago|0 comments
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by loomio 13y ago
Here is the full quote: People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
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The world needs a better way to make decisions together(loomio.org)
2 points by loomio 13y ago|0 comments
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by loomio 13y ago
Great management is about great delegation and great empowerment. What they are NOT involved in is as, or more, important than what they are involved in. As someone who spends all my time thinking about decision-making group dynamics, I tho
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by loomio 13y ago
How would you say your service compares to Gengo.com? It seems you're a lot cheaper. Does that mean we could expect lower quality? What sort of QA do you have in place?
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by loomio 13y ago
A lot of people have happily paid us money, which is awesome. But we've decided to transition to a true "gift economy" model now. In the next few weeks, we're launching a big crowdfunding campaign to fund development of
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by loomio 13y ago
Our first customer for our collaboration tool Loomio (htp://www.loomio.org) was the coworking space we were working in and the social enterprise hub that was based there. We built a tool that was instantly useful to them, and in e
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by loomio 13y ago
That was what stuck out to me most of all, after initially actually thinking it was a pretty good idea. I was totally turned off as a woman, and it make me feel immediately that this service, whatever it was, wasn't targeted at me.
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by loomio 13y ago
Just to make a point on the other side: We are a bootstrapping social enterprise startup and honestly have to penny pinch. When we were looking for the right CRM, both One Page CRM and Nimble offered us discounts when we wrote to them and a
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by loomio 13y ago
Thanks very much for the advice!
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by loomio 13y ago
This is fantastic! Congrats to Stack Overflow and here's to more languages in the future. We were shocked and delighted when our international user community had massive enthusiasm for translating our app into different languages, and

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