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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

The “degeneration thesis” has long held that worker cooperatives are inherently weak within a capitalist profit-taking system, and will inevitably degenerate into capitalist enterprises themselves as they seek economic survival, or remain small niche innovations without broader impact.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

Note: the speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira. Both the second and third messages had more impact than the control, but the third had the most powerful impact of all. Give lots of information about what you''re doing to drive impact home.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We know that the carbon impact of all that travel is bad for the planet, and the personal impact of all that travel is bad on our bodies. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. I recently hit three million lifetime miles on American Airlines. Not sure whether to celebrate or mourn this milestone.

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