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Case Study | The Refugee Buddy Project Hastings, Rother & Weladen (TRBP) is celebrating universal humanity by welcoming and supporting newly arriving refugees to their UK town and using Loomio to organize their rapidly growing group. When Rossana Leal fled Chile in the 1970s, her mum told her they were “headed for a land where giant men wear skirts”. Soon after, they arrived as refugees in Scotland to a chorus of bagpipers wearing kilts. This warm reception was hugely impactful for the family who had just endured years of fear and uncertainty amongst political unrest. Now, years later, Rossana works

Case study | Partago is a Belgium-based car-sharing citizen cooperative enterprise that offers only 100% electric cars. Their mission is to free up space in neighborhoods, reduce carbon emissions and toxic traffic fumes, and make a big dent in the fight against climate change. Here’s how they are using Loomio to bring their mission to reality. Joachim has never owned a car. In his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, it is easy to bike or hop on a bus to most everywhere he needs to go. If he needs a car, he uses a shared car. But when his neighborhood community

Case Study: Ian Martin Group made big changes to their organizational structure to ensure that their employees enjoy the most meaningful work experience. Here’s a look at their journey and how Loomio is helping them along the way. For more than 60 years, the Ian Martin Group has been helping organizations hire better with traditional contract and permanent placement recruitment services, and innovative offerings like Fitzii, which helps smaller businesses who lack internal hiring expertise, and Matchfield, which intelligently matches consulting engineers with top employers. “We describe our purpose as connecting people in meaningful work,” says Luz Iglesias, the Director

Communication can make or break any team or organization’s efforts. Save time, email confusion, and energy with higher quality conversations that move to action. Loomio’s discussion threads can help. Starting threads on Loomio helps people participate via their computer or mobile in their own time. All organizations benefit by having an online place for discussions – a space for your group to start vital conversations, consider and debate, and get clear outcomes. Don’t have a communication platform yet? Try Loomio with your group, for free. This article will guide you through five powerful ways to use threads that have been

Kia ora! Hello from team Loomio, Since the start of the year, we’ve been working hard on even more awesome new Loomio 2.0 features. Check ‘em out – along with some valuable webinars: Your team can now log in to Loomio with their company login, while staff access & permissions can be administered in one place. It’s a secure, fast and easy way to use Loomio in your organization. Single Sign On (SSO) support for OneLogin, Auth0, Microsoft 365 and many more providers is available on the Loomio Pro plan. See Help for more info. Say it with video Lift

Just checking in to see how you are doing, and to share some new guides we’ve made available. In my previous email, I shared a resource that can help keep your business moving, even while you can’t meet with your team in-person. If you haven’t already, you can get it here. Good Governance Online How do you transition your board’s processes online; make decisions or run a virtual board meeting effectively? Here at Loomio, we see many great examples of organizations doing good governance online and I’d like to share what we’ve learned with two new guides: I would love

Your team is suddenly remote, and you need a place where you can have discussions and make decisions. Your team can get going in under 10 minutes with these five simple steps. Set up your group Invite team members Start a discussion thread Make a decision Set an outcome 1. Set up your group First, click here to start a new organization on Loomio if you haven’t already. Edit group settings to add your Group description, so your team understands the purpose of your group. Upload a photo or a familiar image. This could be your logo, a team photo

We are fortunate to support many incredible organizations – each with their own particular management styles – and it’s not uncommon for us to adopt practices from groups in the Loomio community. When we learn from the examples of others, we are opening up ourselves (and our organizations) to growth. So, today we’re highlighting the Ian Martin Group’s journey to self-organization, a way of organizing that makes your company more resilient in the long term. Self-organization in practice — Ian Martin Group Watch the above video to learn: How a small team of six ended up transforming a company of

Keeping everyone up-to-date on the decisions happening in your organization can be tough and especially when you are working remotely. The good news? We have just released a big upgrade to make this easier. Our new Webhooks feature enables integration between Loomio and other tools your team uses. It can send notifications through almost any chat platform including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost, Telegram, and more. It’s not limited to chat, either, anything that supports ‘incoming webhooks’ can receive real-time updates about activity in Loomio that is important to you. To get started, have a look at our setup guides for

If you have been following Loomio for a while, you will have noticed we periodically review our pricing. I’m delighted to announce our latest pricing focusing on simplicity, fairness and inclusion. Many customers have told us they want to invite more people into discussion and decision making, but don’t want to pay for people who are not actively participating. They want to scale up for key events like a general meeting and then scale back down after, and only pay for people actively using Loomio. So we have combined our previous plans into a single Active plan. Our new price