Co-operative Resources

[Hakanto]

Co-operatives UK: The Governance of Large Co-operative Businesses

[Nick_M]

Great document, emphasising the balance needed between the executive, ‘expert’ and membership voices.

[Hakanto]

If you have any other guides like this, @Nick_M – please share. I know you have good stuff

[Nick_M]

Towards Complex Governance Systems

And also these earlier posts:

Recommended Reading - Original Thread

For those who are a bit geeky on what makes a digital platform or community work, and approaches to designing such a platform, here is a link to some ideas from friends of mine at the Platform Design Toolkit team… Simone, Luca and co: https://platformdesigntoolkit.com/platform-design-whitepaper/ There is also a wealth of reference material here: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Platform+Cooperative+Development+Kit from Trebor Scholz at the New School on platform coops https://…

Recommended Reading - Original Thread

This is a brief article about different types of co-ops, comparing those with business-focused missions to co-ops grounded in more all-encompassing social, cultural and ecological work. It felt very familiar and helpful to read this description of the social-type of co-op. These are exactly the points that have guided me in my contributions to Resonate. It is such a relief to see them written out this way. I feel like I can now I can point people toward this article and save some of my talki…

Recommended Reading - Original Thread

Here’s some nice intro posts about how to step up our game here in the forum and build out this space a bit.

and this

How we lead

I liked it a lot (see the comment)