Loomio news

If you’ve seen our last article with Loomio’s new features, that was just the beginning! Here’s our latest batch of improvements and new tools.

Everything is new! It’s an exciting time for us at Loomio and also for our customers; we’ve listened to your feedback and here's the result — Loomio 2.0.

Score polling is a simple but expressive voting process which captures the level of preference voters have for each option in the poll.

The Full Circle model works on two levels: a way understand and visualise diverse kinds of leadership, and a way to map the steps of innovation and…

Hi folks, it’s Rich here, one of the Loomio co-founders. You haven’t heard from me for a while so I want to give you an update on what’s been happening this…

Rich and Nati from Loomio are coming from New Zealand to join US-based team member MJ for a workshop tour across the States.

Loomio Co-op Member and Director MJ Kaplan has been all over the US in recent months, at conferences exploring impact, collaboration, the economy, the…

Join us for the New Zealand Premiere of an inspiring new film featuring Loomio alongside other cooperative organisations.

It’s been quite a month… Here in New Zealand we've been shaken by a 7.5 earthquake, while the world has been shaken politically.

Platform cooperativism is the radical idea that the internet would do more good if its major properties were democratically owned and governed.

We got a shout out at the White House! Loomio has been picked as part of a suite of tools promoted by Together We Work, a campaign to empower young workers…

We open source not only our software code, but our organisation too. Our impact mission is about democratic engagement, inclusive participation, and…

The latest news from Loomio… Join us at conferences in New Zealand and Indonesia, celebrating our upgraded navigation in the app, and a range of useful…

We’re super excited about contributing to the upcoming OS//OS open source, open society conference.

Our New Website is Live! We brought together everything we’ve learned about communicating the value of Loomio in a simple compelling way, and combined it…

The last few years have been quite a journey for Loomio. This is a story about navigating the world of startup financing to find ethical investment that…

We’ve reached the final step in the process of switching everyone over the the new and improved Loomio interface.

It’s been devastating to watch as the conflict in Syria has escalated into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation.

2016 is shaping up to be an exciting year for Loomio. Here are some highlights from the first few months.

We’ve been having a Mad Science kind of summer. One of our most exciting experiments has just bubbled out of the lab and into the wild. Announcing… EMOJIS!

Spring has sprung 🙂 Hi friends! Spring has arrived here in Aotearoa and it is gorgeous! We’ve got a lot of juicy stories to share this month:

Here's a quick update with all the latest news from Loomio land for August 🙂

Inside Loomio's strategy weekend at Aroha Valley, where the cooperative looked 20 years ahead and set priorities for the next three years and three months.

I had the immense honour of being invited to participate in the g0v Summit in Taipei last year. The Summit was basically a chance for 700 people to get…

Loomio is co-hosting the Open Source // Open Society conference, April 16-17 in Wellington, New Zealand, alongside GitHub, Chalkle, and Enspiral.

Loomio has received a small grant from Catalyst to help Litemap and Assembl develop their collective intelligence tools.

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs used Loomio for public discussion ahead of its National Energy Conference, gathering input on complex energy policy.

Well folks it has been an incredible few months and today is a very special day: we’re inviting everyone (starting with those who supported our crowdfunding…

We went out to the Loomio Community asking for feedback on the new designs for mobile/phone and desktop/tablet. In addition to some excellent suggestions…

Another month has flown by, with some more huge progress in Loomio land:

It’s the first day of Spring in Aotearoa New Zealand, and it certainly feels like it. We’re now halfway between the end of the crowdfunding campaign and the…

We’ve released some exciting new ways to see what’s most important to you on Loomio!

The Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) in New York is an annual gathering of people from around the world working towards a free and open internet.

A roundup of Loomio improvements including contact imports, discussion permissions, starred groups, RSS feeds and clearer email notifications.

It’s Matariki here in Aotearoa New Zealand and we’re really feeling the winter solstice vibe at Loomio HQ – feels like it’s getting brighter every day!

Right from the start, Loomio has been a community-driven project. From day one, we’ve had real people using Loomio to make real decisions, and real world…

After an incredible couple of days, the target is within reach! It’s truly overwhelming to see so many generous people getting behind this project…

A coalition of direct democracy groups launched hundreds of local decision-making groups covering every region of Greece, turning online discussion into…

• Nationwide citizen political participation
• Accessible to non-technical citizens
• Transparent voting with participation tracking
• Collective pressure on local officials

Improving our decision making skills is one of way to improve the world that we live in. Much of the happiness, and a lot of the suffering in our world…

ConstitutionUK used Loomio to make collaborative constitutional drafting simple, transparent, and open to public participation.

• Open public participation
• Transparent collective decisions
• Accessible constitutional drafting
• Ideas gathered in one place

Happy New Year everyone! Loomio has a chance to get our year off on an awesome footing. We are currently in the running for the MIX Prize Digital Freedom…

Greetings Loomions! Our second year at the Loomio Cooperative has turned out to be an action-packed and exciting time of developing the product, expanding…

We’ve been invited to speak at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, which has been the catalyst for our trip to Europe.

Thoughts en route: I am considering what it is I want from a trip as extensive and full as this one. Madrid, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, New…

We may only be there for 28 hours, but our stay in Madrid is already packed with action.

Next stop on our exploration of the globe: Europe and the United States! Ben Knight and Vivien Maidaborn, two of the co-founders and dream-weavers of the…

Hey there, Jon here, from the Loomio product team. I've been working pretty hard on some new designs for Loomio, and thought it'd be nice to share with…

Those of us working on Loomio all have big dreams for what we’d like the software to look like in future. We’re continuously inundated with helpful…

Thanks to everyone for making our launch party totally magical! Here's a video of Rich and Vivien presenting some of the Loomio story, supported by an…

We are excited to announce that after 15 months of hard work, we’re finally launching publicly! The team has put a huge amount of time, passion and effort…

Our campaign on PledgeMe has reached its goal, and more! We can't thank our generous supporters enough for throwing their inspiring energy and hard-won cash…

Read Idealog's coverage of Loomio, its crowdfunding success and the early international growth of the collaborative decision-making platform.

See another early iteration of Loomio's logo from May 2012, documenting the evolving identity of the collaborative decision-making project.

See an early string-based Loomio logo, shared as the open-source collaborative decision-making project developed its visual identity.

Meet some of the early Loomio team behind the open-source platform for collaborative discussion and group decision-making in 2012.

See the first draft of the Loomio logo, shared during the collaborative decision-making platform's early development in April 2012.