The Loomio Blog
Stories about how organizations around the world use Loomio to make better decisions together.
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Everyone on the new Loomio
We’ve reached the final step in the process of switching everyone over the the new and improved Loomio interface.
Guide
Helping teams thrive with Loomio – My journey with collaboration consulting
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”.
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Digital collaboration in the Middle East
It’s been devastating to watch as the conflict in Syria has escalated into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation. For those of us far away from the area, it’s frustrating not knowing how we can help. So when Rich from Loomio stumbled across an U.S. American activist working with Syrian refugees in Turkey, he reached out.
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Activist group keeps decisions moving between fortnightly meetings
See how Debt Resistance UK uses Loomio to make decisions between meetings, set clear deadlines and turn group discussion into coordinated action together.
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Loomio news: Stories from humans inventing the future
2016 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Loomio. Here are some highlights from the first few months.
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A coworking space governed by its community
See how La Coroutine uses Loomio to explore disagreement, reach consensus and let its wider coworking community govern shared spaces together in minutes.
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200 artists, 12 buildings, 1 community: Gängeviertel collective
See how 200 artists across 12 buildings use Loomio to prepare complex decisions, include quieter voices and govern their Hamburg community together online.
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How the P2P foundation does high-level coordination
The P2P Foundation uses Loomio to turn open discussion into decisions and coordinate its global network.
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Major breakthrough in online democracy: Loomio ❤ emojis!
We’ve been having a Mad Science kind of summer. One of our most exciting experiments has just bubbled out of the lab and into the wild. Announcing… EMOJIS!
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Spreading the collaborative decision-making meme
Learn how a 15-household Auckland cohousing group introduced Loomio, reduced tedious meeting time, and created space for wider participation.
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A co-living hotel run by its guests
A co-living hotel in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury uses collaborative decision-making to run a dynamic community of residents, guests, and neighbors.
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Scaling a shared vision across countries
An international collective moved from Facebook and email to real decision-making — and members who had gone quiet suddenly started contributing again.
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Digital nomad co-op makes decisions across time zones
See how five digital nomads use Loomio to make cooperative decisions across time zones, preserve meeting time and think through choices together online.
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How the COY11 global youth coalition self-organised to make an impact at COP21
COY11 used Loomio to coordinate 60 volunteer organizers, make decisions asynchronously, and deliver a global youth climate conference at COP21.
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One step closer to Loomio 1.0
For the last few months, we’ve been progressively bringing more and more people over from Loomio Beta onto the new Loomio user interface. As of tomorrow, all new user accounts will start on the new interface.
Guide
9 ways to use a Loomio proposal to turn a conversation into action
If you’ve read the introductory guide to making great decisions with Loomio, you’re ready to learn about some of the creative ways you can use proposals.
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Loomio news for September 2015
Spring has sprung 🙂 Hi friends! Spring has arrived here in Aotearoa and it is gorgeous! We’ve got a lot of juicy stories to share this month:
Guide
10 tips for making great decisions with Loomio
Here in the Loomio team, we have been using Loomio since it was only a pie graph with buttons, and we've learnt a few things along the way.
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Loomio news for August 2015
Here's a quick update with all the latest news from Loomio land for August 🙂
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Heaps of exciting news from Loomio HQ :)
More than 86,000 people have joined Loomio, making more than 28,000 decisions in nearly 100 countries, so it's feeling like we're really starting to have some impact in the world!
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Turning a conference into a movement with Loomio
See how Equally Well used Loomio to engage 120 health sector participants before a summit and sustain collaboration after the event.
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g0v summit 2014: Taiwan and the future of democracy
I had the immense honour of being invited to participate in the g0v Summit in Taipei last year. The Summit was basically a chance for 700 people to get together and discuss the future of democracy, and hack on some projects that might help us get there faster.
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Loomio is co-hosting the open source // open society conference
Loomio is co-hosting the Open Source // Open Society conference, April 16-17 in Wellington, New Zealand, alongside GitHub, Chalkle, and Enspiral. Get your ticket and join us at the event!
Guide
Priority-setting in a human-centred organisation
This is the first article in our Cultural Technology series, where we share practices for working in a networked organisation. This is very much a work in progress but we hope it’s valuable to share what we’re learning.
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Cultural technology
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