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Sat 5 Jul 2014 5:28AM

Developing Partnerships

R Rory (FSA) Public Seen by 100

The 1st FairShares Association Conference agreed to:

1) Establish a regional, national and international presence
2) Establish relationship with well resourced (sympathetic) organisations
3) Establish relationships with regulators.

Discussion co-ordinator: Rory Ridley-Duff (SHU)

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Rory (FSA) Fri 10 Oct 2014 12:25PM

Met the Chair of the ICA Research Committee at the International Cooperative Summit. She's now well briefed about FairShares and is in contact with Sonja Vukovic in Croatia (her home country) regarding the EU FairShares bid.

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Rory (FSA) Sun 16 Nov 2014 5:07PM

Have been in communication with Loomio co-founder Ben M Knight (he studied evolutionary psychology at St Andrews University, but is now based in Wellington, New Zealand).

We've been agreeing to share materials to create videos about Loomio (their videos, my textovers and additions). Here's the best of the crop.

Very good resource for those of you teaching about participative management in social enterprises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl1GcHnnVNw

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Cliff Sun 16 Nov 2014 9:58PM

Thats good Rory - keep it up!

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Rory (FSA) Wed 3 Dec 2014 5:10PM

Cliff - have shared via Twitter / Facebook. Do you want a mailing to the FairShares Association (Global, National or Regional).

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Rory (as User) Thu 12 Mar 2015 8:06AM

Dear FairSharers - something significant is happening on which we need your input.

Earlier this week, Cliff and I had an on-line conversation with Eric Dorien (in the US) and Rob Jameson (Australia). They are the co-founders of Mass Mosaic (https://www.massmosaic.com/). They have just gone live with their (global) website project and are accepting 'pro' subscriptions to their crowdsourcing web site.

They have devised a FairShares approach based on Founders (themselves), Users ('pro' subscribers) and Labour ('employees') and have drafted a constitution. They would like our support to develop / improve the constitution and have proposed an exchange of services. They improve our website in exchange for us helping their business to develop.

The most positive issue is that they want to brand their website (which is a global crowdsourcing platform) as a FairShares Enterprise. If we reach agreement with them, it could put the FairShares brand into a global enterprise and significantly raise its profile.

One issue for resolution is that they want to improve the look of our brand (i.e. the logo / image of FairShares) before they use it so we need to discuss this issue. I have to say that Slap (in Croatia) who are waiting on an EU bid to support the development of FairShares through out Croatia, have expressed the same.

Can you share your thoughts, then I'll frame a proposal that takes them into account.

On a personal level, I like the idea of the coin with the three core SEE commitments to social enterprise, with the whole image represent ethical wealth creation under democratic control. I would, however, be happy for the coin itself to be a much slicker image.

Also, any new logo must be an editable PNG (Fireworks format) that we can edit so that the text and currency symbol can be changed for each local market. Aside that, I'd be happy to consider rebranding.

Best wishes
Rory

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Thomas Miller Wed 9 Jun 2021 5:08AM

Hello,

I agree with your thoughts. If you want to improve the look of our brand then the logo is the most important part. The FairShares Association will run a competition for a new logo design. Many of these design contents and always got an excellent choice of great logos to choose from.

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Cliff Thu 12 Mar 2015 8:19AM

Some other news - I am spending some time with a very interesting guy, Rupeks Egils from Latvia. Its a pity we could not arrnage a meeting with him - he is a MBA graduate from the prestigious Stockholm school of economics (same as Sten) and a successful business man who stopped his business mainly because the values of business had changed. As I told you before he has read your book and Piketty.

Anyway he is setting up a new business (new foods) and he is interested in setting it up as a FairShares company - not because it suits his business model - but because he feels he has to contribute to redressing the inequality caused by the very business practices he was so successful at. I think this is a discussion I had with Geof - that Geof is right is saying that FairShares will not attract people because of the suitability of the model to their business model - but branded politically it will attract the likes of Rupeks who are willing to bend their business model to fit values and ethics that FairShares offer.

Anyway taking him and his wife (who works for the Swedish Embassy) to meet Bob at Suma today

Cliff

The Definitive social enterprise course ( http://www.socialenterpriseeurope.co.uk/how-to-run-a-business-with-values-the-definitive-social-enterprise-course/ )

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Rory (FSA) Thu 12 Mar 2015 8:22AM

Good luck at Suma - I'll ring you later if I get a gap between meetings. On FairShares itself, I am confident that it is flexible enough to adapt to various business models (because it comes from practice, not from politics).

All the best
Rory

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Cliff Thu 12 Mar 2015 8:24AM

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Rory (as User) Sat 14 Mar 2015 9:18PM

FairSharers - Cliff and I are meeting Independent Living Ireland next week. They want to apply FairShares for their care work. Will report in due course.

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