From bde705d03c353bd56947a500a79c19d10e4b3b10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?benjamin=20melan=C3=A7on?= Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:34:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Start a notes file --- scaling-community-decision-making/notes.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scaling-community-decision-making/notes.md diff --git a/scaling-community-decision-making/notes.md b/scaling-community-decision-making/notes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4da284 --- /dev/null +++ b/scaling-community-decision-making/notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +http://votermedia.org/publications/WeWantOurCo-opsBack.pdf + +Via: + +Great discussion. I’ve been giving similar thought to the usefulness of Mac users groups. They used to be face-to-face meetings to both help understand and recommend products and services. I think you have hit on something re more lateral relationships. Broader governance mechanisms such as We Own It could feed this process. Mark Latham also put forward some interesting ideas in his paper We Want Our Co-ops Back http://votermedia.org/publications/WeWantOurCo-opsBack.pdf + +James McRitchie +Shareholder Advocate +Corporate Governance +Site: http://www.corpgov.net +mail: jm@corpgov.net +phone: 916-869-2402 + + + +> On Jul 30, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Nathan Schneider wrote: +> +> -discuss friends, +> +> Lately I've been floating this language of "lateral" as opposed to "vertical" relationships in co-ops—particularly the opportunity for building more member-to-member relationships and economics into legacy co-ops and credit unions, which are more focused now on conventional service provision. +> +> I just put up [a blog post on this distinction](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/07/29/co-ops-from-lateral-to-vertical.html ) and would love your thoughts. I also quite enjoy the accompanying photo of a sheet full of Alphonse Desjardins stamps. +> +> Hat tip to much discussion here, and especially convos with Danny Sptizberg and Taylor Nelms on member engagement. +> +> Nathan +>