Our Member Success Manager Kaitlyn has a great new blog post out for anyone looking for any advice on how to organize and digitize their collections. Check it out for some excellent expert advice! #DigiPres #PhotoManagement #Digitization #Organization
https://www.permanent.org/blog/resources-for-organizing-and-digitizing-your-materials/

SoFA has a new book coming in October - "Collective Power. Patterns for a self-organized Future."
You can read some of the main ideas here - and you can pre-order the book!

https://t.co/PQA1wgAHnB

#futureofwork #organizing #CollectivePower #organization #leadership #orgdev https://t.co/B3i3RWJ4Az

"Unshared component teams are a root cause of mediocre performance."

https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/why-are-component-teams-still-so-popular #agile #software #product #organization

The Sociocracy 3.0 Canvases are included in Ultri's Canava now.
https://www.ultri.com/canava
That allows easy customization of the canvas rows, columns, and instructions. It also makes viewing and entering the data easier than other canvases.

Give them a try and tell us what you think.

https://www.ultri.com/canava/template/s3Organization

https://www.ultri.com/canava/template/s3Team

https://www.ultri.com/canava/template/s3Delegation

#sociocracy #business #planning #canvas #coop #team #organization #domain #Visualization #diagram #chart

All Nations Invited to Join BRICS Said ‘Yes’ to Membership: Russian Diplomat - The six countries that received an invitation to become members of BRICS at its su... - https://news.bitcoin.com/all-nations-invited-to-join-brics-said-yes-to-membership-russian-diplomat/ #emergingmarkets #memberstates #organization #enlargement #invitations #southafrica #candidates #newmembers #expansion #diplomat #members #russian #russia #summit #brics #group #news #bloc

The terms #RICO and #Racketeering around regarding Trump because they sound cool but they both mean one thing: Organized crime. The criminal defendant has been a two-bit cheating fraudster pimp scumbag his entire adult life. Now he's finally going to prison where he should have been long ago.

Criminal defendant donald learned everything he knows from the king of blackmail and dirty tricks. Mob shill roy Cohn taught him to get dirt on people from the start. Who knows what the FBI found in his safe.

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties for acts performed as part of an #ongoing #criminal #organization.

Read about case strategy 🎁 gift

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/us/trump-georgia-trial.html?unlocked_article_code=_1WShIRnYtKcZSS4DQTvDtFIJ8JjMRJ8pNloZtR6AJR9QmK5uOazr_rQPcJGSxySBs3ayi7lIo5ByP8C5kGIKvAs3tZN9H6YtNv8fLPAPs8BR1Ku08GO-joOHk5AuZrIUcdd8BbACil5MQyDFfjkeR2NRnS7CVI9zoJmAjaRv46uF5la_cFS72CiY5jyuE7TN3nqFpD6LYB-mTjEwT98q-PiogEz0bSlysv_qgsEOWDJ2YQ-1oMfaLkIjav4iiA4mgSDe6sgssUpPtlXsy58cvAAyiqVZQQG8IUxuvi-37DecTZiZBYc1xo_aqJSLS01g2uFsV7OIw&smid=tw-share

#graphicDesign #organization #UI #UX
Hey all, I’m trying to make Windows more usable for me, which means custom icons for folders. (E.g. book, lightbulb, pair of headphones…)
Anyone else do this? I know how to change the setting for an individual folder. Wondering 3 things:
- should the referenced icon images be in a certain location
- where I can buy a (searchable) set
- if you have another thought or tip
Etsy has been one option, so maybe I’ll reach out to a couple sellers.

BRICS Discussing Single Unit of Account, Alternative to Dollar, Russian Finance Minister Says - The BRICS members are mulling over the possible launch of a common unit of account... - https://news.bitcoin.com/brics-discussing-single-unit-of-account-alternative-to-dollar-russian-finance-minister-says/ #summitsouthafrica #financeminister #commoncurrency #singlecurrency #unitofaccount #organization #u.s.dollar #currency #siluanov #finance #russian #dollar #russia #brics #group #bloc #euro

#Talking #Trash: The #Global #Garbage #Crisis w/ Oliver Franklin-Wallis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyMq4npswII&ab_channel=GreenandRedPodcast

In much of the developed world, waste is out of sight and out of mind. The world generates around 2 billion tons of #municipal #solid #waste #annually, with at least 33% of it #not #managed in an #environmentally #safe #manner, according to a 2018 World Bank report. Though high-income countries only account for 16% of the world’s population, they generate about 34% of the world’s waste each year. A third of all 3food produced is wasted and ends up in the garbage can. 3Plastic waste is another mounting issue: Across the globe, #less than 10% of it is #recycled, according to the most recent data from 2018 published by the #Organization for #Economic #Cooperation and #Development. Plastic waste has more than doubled globally since 2000.
#RedGreen #podcast

A Startup doesn't have to Grow into #Product & #Engineering

https://www.agileorgdesign.com/content/startup-structure-orgdesign-product-engg

#organization #workorganization #enterpriseorganization

Points of Unity template for shared practices and processes (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc

Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.

Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes horizontal rights such as freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document.

Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations and participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.

Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to achieve various goals. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.

Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals, creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.

For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:

Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.

Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:

Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.

***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.

Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:

Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy (as defined above), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/

#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #socialmovements #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #egalitarianism #horizontality #federalism #democracy #mutualaid #freeassociation #pointsofunity #pou #organizing #freedom #revolution #organization

Asking for a friend: how do you keep your thousands of cables organized? I’m moving next month and I think it would be nice to have a better way to keep my cables organized. Right now I have a big plastic storage bin with so much cables that it is always a mess every time I need a cable. Tips are welcome! #cables #cablemadness #organization

I've been exploring Fabric for the past week, and I'm really impressed. This project definitely has potential, plus the team behind it seems great.
https://fabric.so

#productivity #organization #pkm #fabric #cloud #OS

#MeisterKonfus sagt, konzentriere Dich immer auf die Schauseite Deiner #Organisation. Den formalen und informalen Teil ignoriere. Je größer die Diskrepanz zwischen den drei Dimensionen, desto größer die #Konfusion und damit die #Verschwendung.

#Konfus says, always focus on the front side of your #organization. Ignore the formal and informal part. The greater the discrepancy between the three dimensions, the greater the #confusion and thus the #waste.

Praising Messy #Minimalism

https://nosidebar.com/3-reasons-to-embrace-messy-minimalism/

#lifestyle #organization #minimalismo

#Konfus says make new #decisions as quickly and often as possible. Constantly change direction. Make sure that your #organization does not keep up with the implementation and that there is no chance for them to have an effect. This is how you create #waste

#Konfus says make new #decisions as quickly and often as possible. Constantly change direction. Make sure that your #organization does not keep up with the implementation and that there is no chance for them to have an effect. This is how you create #waste

BRICS Is No Joke, Bloc Could Become G7 Counterpart, Experts Say - The BRICS challenge to the world’s established economic order is not a joke, accor... - https://news.bitcoin.com/brics-is-no-joke-bloc-could-become-g7-counterpart-experts-say/ #internationalrelations #internationalaffairs #digitalcurrencies #de-dollarization #organization #counterpart #enlargement #settlements #southafrica #currencies #dependence #u.s.dollar #expansion #payments #economy #finance #dollar #summit #news

BRICS Expansion to Make West Recognize New World Order, De-Dollarization: UAE Professor - The accession of new members will allow BRICS to push the West to accept changes i... - https://news.bitcoin.com/brics-expansion-to-make-west-recognize-new-world-order-de-dollarization-uae-professor/ #internationalrelations #internationaltrade #de-dollarization #memberstates #organization #discussions #enlargement #saudiarabia #u.s.dollar #worldorder #expansion #members #dollar #summit #brics #talks

Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/08/burnout-is-about-your-workplace-not.html #Organization #individual #Prevention #Workplace #Symptoms #Burnout #factors #Stress