A comic-book style cover of a titan-sized Marc Andreessen crushing a city whilst pulling a lever labelled "AI". The title is "Time to Build: Marc Adreessen on Lenny's Podcast".
Jakob's Nielsen's UX newsletter has dropped in my inbox. Let's see if I can gird my loins and board his techno-optimist #AI train! Hot takes ahead!
What’s this? A comic. We'll begin with its rousing cover! 1/
YES! This could be for you! **£5,000 cash funding** 💸💸💸 for startups / orgs working on everyday challenges (like food, housing & retrofit, transport, care), PLUS training PLUS help setting up as a workers co-op 👇👇
via @workers-coop.bsky.social
#coops #socialimpact #retrofit #care
People work at their laptops in a coworking space, there's an air of relaxed creativity and collaboration with lots of chat, smiling and close working.
Come join us! We're looking for an organisation (or two) doing meaningful work to join our community, renting our main space. => 613 square feet + a long-term partnership rooted in shared values, collaboration & skill-sharing 🙌
space4.tech/semi-private...
#islington #finsburypark #socialimpact
Browsing a thread about how to help a mum with dementia to work with answerphones, I came across this *wonderful* Substack - simple tech & hacks to make things more accessible at home 👇💙
#accessibility #dementia #dementiatech
We’re very proud to have been developing NookCRM for the #CommunityEnergy sector, funded by the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme too! 🙌🙌🙌
Say hello to our CoTech team there today, Natasha, Richard and Ben: members of worker owned tech cooperatives! They love to talk about #digitalsovereignty 👍
Excited to be showcasing NookCRM.com at @commenergyengland.bsky.social‘s WINTER CONFERENCE, on 17 November! 🌟
Plus connecting with CEE members from across England, diving into crucial #CommunityEnergy matters.
🙌 If you want to learn more about how Nook can support your case management come say hi!
It's built on #civicrm, if you're a dev and interested. Lots of new + custom Civi functionality such as a lovely UI skin, side bar navs and Kanban boards :)
This is fantastic news and it's so good to see the interest in nookcrm.com !
#communityenergy
Precentage survival rates (YoY) for companies and co-operatives, for businesses incorporated in 2011 Survival rate for each year since incorporation for co-operatives: 1 - 96% 2 - 91% 3 - 87% 4 - 84% 5 - 80% Survival rate for each year since incorporation for companies: 1 - 93% 2 - 76% 3 - 61% 4 - 51% 5 - 44% Understanding the data: An 80% rate of survival at 5 years since incorporation means 4 out of 5 enterprises remain in business after 5 years, while 1 out of 5 have gone out of business. https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative_survival_1.pdf
A comparison of survival rates (%) for co-operatives and companies over a 5 year period, for businesses incorporated 2009-2011 Survival rates of co-operatives and companies incorporated in 2009 by year since incorporation: 1 - 98.8% vs 90.8% 2 - 97.6% vs 73.8% 3 - 91.6% vs 59.6% 4 - 86.4% vs 48.9% 5 - 84.8% vs 41.7% Survival rates of co-operatives and companies incorporated in 2010 by year since incorporation: 1 - 98.3% vs 86.7% 2 - 94% vs 72.5% 3 - 91% vs 57.1% 4 - 87.3% vs 48.1% 5 - 81.9% vs 41.4% Survival rates of co-operatives and companies incorporated in 2011 by year since incorporation: 1 - 96.3% vs 93.1% 2 - 91.1% vs 75.6% 3 - 87.4% vs 60.5% 4 - 84% vs 51% 5 - 80.4% vs 44.1% https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative_survival_1.pdf
Many claim that businesses organized as democracies are inefficient and will fail at a higher rate than the conventional undemocratic model.
But according to the data, democratic businesses are significantly more resilient and survive longer than conventional businesses.
#EconomicDemocracy
Now this is a lovely development. We're starting a regular community of practice for NookCRM users + #communityenergy groups to talk approaches, opine about case management and to generally swap notes. Come join!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nook-crm-c...
More happy tidings! Nook, our CRM for #communityenergy groups, has secured a second batch of funding from the Energy Redress Scheme to develop improved reporting features for orgs working against #fuelpoverty and for #WarmHomes 🥳
nookcrm.com
Happening here at SPACE4, Islington 👇👇👇
#innovation #socialimpact #data
A photo of the interior of Rochdale Town Hall, with high arched ceilings and stained glass windows reminiscent of a grand church but actually depicting scenes of trade and history.
I’m off to #CoopCongress today in the incredible Rochdale Town Hall. I mean, just look at it!
I’m hoping to build some solid connections & opportunities for the coop tech sector 🥳 #coops
It's #LondonDataWeek in July! And as an official event host, we'll be running a FREE workshop on how to combine policy, citizen science and ecological #data to drive real-world change. Tickets 👇👇👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unlocking-...
#biodiversity #govtech
Happening next week! 👇
#communityenergy #digitaltransformation #energyadvice #fuelpoverty
It's International Workers' Day! ✊🥳 If you want to advance your economic, social and cultural interests now's a *great* time to consider starting or joining a cooperative!
#coops #techjobs
If you’re considering a new #crm this year we’ve put together some handy insights and risks from Nook CRM’s lead designer. Fill your boots!
#digitaltransformation
News that Trump has signed an executive order banning collective bargaining for nearly 1 million US federal workers is incredibly worrying.
We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and sister unions overseas against these attacks on their union rights.
Thank you Helen! Richard from Outlandish @richardedwards.me has just connected with you on LinkedIn. Your experience sounds great :)
Hello BlueSky. Does anyone here work in #community engagement, organising or community #nature projects? Or worked on tools to help people do community projects? Do you have 30mins on Tues afternoon for a (paid) Zoom call to feedback on a new project idea?
I love these simple updates from Natasha to the Nook CRM website this week. Screenshots! Feature details & benefits! And a rambly video demo from me! 🫣
#communityenergy #fuelpoverty
nookcrm.com
Our lead developer said something beautiful this morning: "ok I think we have ourselves a multisite deployment pipeline". I'm so happy! This means we're almost ready to host and support separate setups of the CRM for each #communityenergy group. 🥳
#fuelpoverty #buildinpublic
There’s only ~1 week left to apply to join our lovely team as a Digital Project Manager & Business Development Specialist. Come deliver socially impactful tech for the likes of Greenpeace, Innovate UK, The Stroke Association, Stop The War & more!
#tech #socialimpact
A presenter stands in front of a screen showing a slide that reads (in bright and friendly curvy letters) “How light business change if nature had a voice and a vote?”
A presenter stands in front of a screen showing a slide showing illustrations of raised hands, each reaching towards the phrases “guardianship model”, “independence and accountability”, “purpose clause” and “nature has an equal vote”.
What would it be like if nature was on your company’s board of directors? This week at @catapultnetwork.bsky.social , we had a great talk from Faith in Nature who’ve legally done just that 1/
Come work with us! 🥳 We're looking for a new Digital Project Manager & Business Development Specialist to deliver socially impactful tech projects for our wonderful clients, including the likes of Greenpeace, Innovate UK, The Stroke Association, Stop The War & more.
#techjobs #tech
A great share and a good read - sounds like a much-needed project @weareopen.coop team 🙌
Obvs we're very excited to see this launch! If you're in #communityenergy or #retrofit and want to test out the CRM, follow the link & register your interest 🚀
Hello new, blue world 💙