The Loomio Blog

Case study

A strategic planning consultant who spent 21 years in foster care now uses online collaboration to ensure every stakeholder is heard.

Case study

Climate Karanga Marlborough uses online collaboration to develop climate action ideas between meetings.

Event

Loomio Co-op Member and Director MJ Kaplan has been all over the US in recent months, at conferences exploring impact, collaboration, the economy, the future of work, and more.

News

Join us for the New Zealand Premiere of an inspiring new film featuring Loomio alongside other cooperative organisations.

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See how Statistics New Zealand used Loomio to broaden public consultation for the 2018 Census, including youth and marginalized communities.

News

It’s been quite a month… Here in New Zealand we've been shaken by a 7.5 earthquake, while the world has been shaken politically.

Guide

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.

Event

Platform cooperativism is the radical idea that the internet would do more good if its major properties were democratically owned and governed.

Interview

Case study

See how Conscious Consumers uses Loomio for multi-week board deliberation, informed agreement, and a clear record of governance decisions.

Guide

Guardian journalist Max Opray got in touch with us last week, while researching his article Could Online Democracy Lead To Governance By Trumps and Trolls? Online interactions are notorious for being hijacked by trolls, so he wanted to hear how we handle trolls at Loomio.

News

# We got a shout out at the White House! 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.

Case study

A network of cooperative researchers across five countries can never all meet face to face — so they run a general meeting that never adjourns.

News

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.

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A 75-year-old tech university discovered that its smartest people do their best thinking outside of meetings.

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A nine-member dog walking cooperative in New York uses translation and photo sharing to collaborate across English and Spanish.

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See how SolidFund uses Loomio to help 450 UK worker co-op members discuss proposals, make informed funding decisions, and meet less in person.

News

The latest news from Loomio… Join us at conferences in New Zealand and Indonesia, celebrating our upgraded navigation in the app, and a range of useful how-to's.

Event

We’re super excited about contributing to the upcoming OS//OS open source, open society conference.

Guide

Explore how Holacracy's integrative decision-making process can help teams develop proposals together.

Guide

New Zealand recently tightened up health and safety laws. Now businesses must have practices that give their workers opportunities to participate, on an ongoing basis, in improving health and safety.

News

## Our New Website is Live! We brought together everything we’ve learned about communicating the value of Loomio in a simple compelling way, and combined it with visually engaging illustrations. We’ve highlighted amazing stories of people using Loomio around the world, and made help content and other resources way easier to find.

Case study

A Welsh parliamentary committee turned a one-off citizen meeting into an ongoing dialogue that made both sessions more productive.

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Guerrilla Translation coordinates publishers in four countries to print the same book locally.

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Land Information New Zealand used open online dialogue to consult IT leaders on open-source policy.

Team update

The last few years have been quite a journey for Loomio. This is a story about navigating the world of startup financing to find ethical investment that works for a truly mission-driven tech company with big ambitions.

Guide

So, your group is actively using Loomio for discussions and decisions. Great! Now you’re ready to optimise your collaboration experience. There are some simple things you can do to make important information clear and accessible. Here are some useful tips and tricks we’ve learned from different Loomio groups.

Guide

Learn how to add a shortcut to Loomio or another website to your phone's home screen.

News

We’ve reached the final step in the process of switching everyone over the the new and improved Loomio interface.

Guide

Since Loomio first launched, the team has been fielding requests from clients to help make the tool and collaborative processes work for them. In response, Loomio has offered consulting Services that discover needs, identify changes to work processes, and coach key team members to understand the magic and the practicality of Loomio’s mission: “Enabling everyone to have a say in decisions that affect them”.