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Remembering Elinor Ostrom
Pioneering commons researcher Elinor Ostrom died on Tuesday from pancreatic cancer. She was 78.The first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, Ostrom challenged the “tragedy of the commons” theory...
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Library Brings People Together Through Collaborative Creation
When a coffeeshop inside the main branch of the Oak Park, Ill. library closed, library staff and administrators found themselves facing a decision: what to do with the now-vacant, very visible space?...
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Restoring Rural Communities Through Open-Air Coworking
“What makes the reef so inventive in not the struggle between the organisms but the way they have learned to collaborate – the coral and the zooxanthellae and the parrotfish borrowing and reinventing...
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This Week in Sharing: Creative Destruction!
As with all good things, Malcolm Harris's tenure as Shareable's resident link-scourer has come to an end. I'll be taking the helm on the good ship TWiS, and we'll be shaking the format up a bit. Have...
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This Week in Sharing: It's Full of Stars
While your dogged Shareable editor scanned the Martian surface for any sign of a giant black monolith emitting portentous classical music, there was plenty of sharing news a little closer to terra...
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12 Leadership Lessons of Internet Pioneers
The Internet started out as a small demonstration project -- connect four computers at four universities to each other. That was the objective when the Department of Defense launched the first stage of...
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Global Service Jam Creates Collaborative Innovation
Once a year for the last two years, cities from all over the world have organized their own local rendition edition of the Global Service Jam. What is the Global Service Jam? In each city, participants...
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Space Invaders: Why Proximity Breeds Collaboration
A new study out of the University of Michigan found that allowing people inside your bubble can actually help you be more productive and creative--a paradox that those participating in the sharing...
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One Girl’s Wish to Share a Few Awkward Pieces of Metal
I want everyone to feel confident in their power to make things with their hands, process information, and use their imagination. I want to see a future where we're all able to help each other, freely...
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OuiShare: Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Economy
Forget about the oh-so-twentieth-century notion of one voice broadcasting ideas to the many. These days, there are new ways of doing things. Collaboration and sharing--the many-to-many model--has...
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Collaborative Coworking in Southern Italy
Is it a house? An office? A meeting place? A community space?Casa Netural, in the Italian city of Matera, is all of the above and much more. It's the first collaborative, coworking space in Southern...
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Mapping P2P Initiatives in Ibero-America with a Wikisprint
I learned a new word this week: wikisprint. As you probably know, a wiki is a website that allows users to add and modify its content (think: Wikipedia) and to sprint is to run at top speed for a short...
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unMonasteries: Collaborating for the (G)local Good
You’ve probably heard of unConferences but how about unMonasteries? Yes, the collaborative movement has extended into monastic life, at least an updated, social enterprise version of it. Situated in...
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Co-designing OuiShare Fest: A Collaborative Experiment
One year after the birth of the global community OuiShare, we decided to launch an international festival dedicated to the collaborative economy called OuiShare Fest. Given that OuiShare is a...
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Free Desk Here: Connecting Creatives with Free Desk Space
One of the best things about freelancing is the freedom of mobility it allows. Many freelancers can work wherever there is wi-fi and a desk. As this mobile freelance community grows, so to do the...
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Can Coworking Accelerate Your Business?
Coworking keeps popping up everywhere you turn. Austin's coworking community is thriving on start-ups while Kenya's coworking scene inspires female techies; Australia's recently held a conference and...
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The Interruption of the Dominant Narrative: An Interview with Colectivo Enmedio
Amador Fernández-Savater interviews Colectivo Enmedio. Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Jane Loes Lipton - Guerrilla Translation!Frustrated by the lack of connection between art and political...
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Space Invaders: Why Proximity Breeds Collaboration
A new study out of the University of Michigan found that allowing people inside your bubble can actually help you be more productive and creative–a paradox that those participating in the sharing...
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One Girl’s Wish to Share a Few Awkward Pieces of Metal
I want everyone to feel confident in their power to make things with their hands, process information, and use their imagination. I want to see a future where we're all able to help each other, freely...
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OuiShare: Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Economy
Forget about the oh-so-twentieth-century notion of one voice broadcasting ideas to the many. These days, there are new ways of doing things. Collaboration and sharing–the many-to-many model–has emerged...
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