Social.coop

Journal/blog of social coop

Leo Sammallahti Wed 11 Oct 2017 9:46PMPublicSeen by 54

In todays meeting we discussed having a journal/blog to document our experience. Because writing content to the blog takes effort, so we could use toots in the Mastodon instant as content. Here's 3 examples of how we could use toots as material to be posted for blog posts:

The top 5/10/20 most tooted/favourited toots of the day/week/month
- Can we easily check on what toots have had most retoots/favourites/replies?
- How to pick the toot? If someone posts on monday and other one on sunday, and the one on monday has 1 retoot more, who to pick? There should be some objective measurement in my opinion.

Interviews in social coop Mastodon instant
- Interviewing a founding member of a newly established platform cooperative, a candidate for an ongoing coop/credit union/building society election, researcher on coops, etc.
- This would also give us a way to invite people to social coop: approach a person who has just set up a new platform coop and ask that person to join social coop for an interview in our Mastodon instant that will be published in our blog.

Discussions and debates in Mastodon
- Could we organize a discussion or a debate between libertarian and socialist coop enthusiast? Or between anarchist and social democrat? People who both support cooperatives but from a different, sometimes even opposing, political leanings. This might also drive home point the point that we are welcoming to people from different political leanings.

What do you think? I could imagine that people who visit social coop once every two weeks might like to catch up on highlights of the discussion that there has been.

Should we have a blog or a journal of some sort? If so, how do we choose the content?

Leo SammallahtiWed 11 Oct 2017 10:33PM

One wild idea I just had: An account for social coop on Steemit, and all the money it gets from upvotes goes to social coop? Haven't thought this very far and don't have experience of Steemit. Could be interesting combination of fundraising and doing outreach and promotion.

Fabián Heredia MontielThu 12 Oct 2017 5:09AM

The top 5/10/20 most tooted/favourited toots of the day/week/month

Yes, with the AmbassadorBot :3 (Some examples there)
https://github.com/mbilokonsky/ambassador/

Fabián Heredia MontielThu 12 Oct 2017 5:10AM

Could we organize a discussion or a debate between libertarian and socialist coop enthusiast? Or between anarchist and social democrat? People who both support cooperatives but from a different, sometimes even opposing, political leanings. This might also drive home point the point that we are welcoming to people from different political leanings.

Maybe do a survey first to see the current postures and make a collective fair exposition of each and their connection to cooperatives?

Jake BeamishFri 15 Jun 2018 1:08PM

ooh I would like to see how the variety looks plotted on https://www.politicalcompass.org/

mike_halesSat 16 Jun 2018 2:54PM

@jakebeamish . . Rich Bartlett @richarddbartlett had a thought-provoking comment in this general area of 'politics', over in Loomio Community, discussing transparency over finances in a coop environment:

With Loomio you have 10 co-op members, plus many other stakeholders. It takes serious energy to agree internally on our shared understanding, and then a tonne more energy to communicate that externally in a way that makes sense to our very different stakeholders. I mean, some of our closest partners are anticapitalist activists, and some of them are capitalists experimenting with philanthropy. It’s super difficult to broadcast messages across that diversity of people in a way that they’re likely to all understand. It’s very easy to create distractions as we use some words that trigger people’s anxieties, e.g. activists anxious that we’ve lost our values, or investors anxious that we’re not a sustainable business.

Check out the whole comment? Thoughtful chap, Rich.

Jake BeamishSat 16 Jun 2018 3:41PM

interesting stuff – thank you for the link. The cocktail of shame bit hit home especially, ha. I spose this:

It's very easy to create distractions as we use some words that trigger people's anxieties, e.g. activists anxious that we've lost our values, or investors anxious that we're not a sustainable business.

gets complicated because here the activist is a (potential?) member and so is the investor.

Rather than striving to communicate a single coherent message that is universally understood, it could be worth trying to show those internal disagreements openly (unless inappropriate) in the name of transparency and as an invitation to join the debate/instance.

Matthew CroppFri 13 Oct 2017 1:13AM

One thing we did a handful of times very early on was organize a synchronous "toot-up" where we'd pick a topic of discussion and discuss it in an agreed upon hour. The last time we did that was #buytwitter, I think, so reviving that practice might be a way of facilitating the debates.

We could even do the same sort of rotation system we're trying out for the calls, where people can sign up to host discussions on a particular topic.