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We Bleed Design - scrolling delight
Wow.. just.. wow. Wait for it to load then scroll down, slowly to be... wow-ed like I was.
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http://www.webleeddesign.com/#toplist
Even big companies are embracing a democratic style | csmonitor.com
If more Fortune 500 companies operated democratically [...] it would allow a powerful alignment between the political system much of humanity embraces and the places we work in each day.
2008, accountability, article, business, control, democracy, empowerment, integrity, participation, transparency, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0506/p09s02-coop.html
Leadership's Online Labs
Tens of millions of people are honing their leadership skills in multiplayer online games. The tools and techniques they’re using will change how leaders function tomorrow—and could m...
2008, 21stcenturyskills, article, business, challenge, collaboration, contribution, decentralization, distributed, flexibility, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-ar...
Crowdsourcing for transparency in Central & Eastern Europe | internet.artizans
I think it's vital that young civil society organisations learn to use the power of the web. I'll be passing on what I've learned about social media campaigning, but I'm also trying to th...
2008, article, crowdsourcing, governance, socialmedia, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/crowdsourcing_for_transparency
fastgovernment
This wiki is intended to collect wisdom about ongoing efforts to make government more transparent, efficient, and effective.
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http://fastgovernment.pbwiki.com
the human network » Blog Archive » The Nuclear Option
Every single person is now so well-connected that anything which happens to them or in front of them reaches everyone it needs to reach, almost instantaneously.
2008, article, connectedness, disruption, empowerment, power, sharing, socialnetworks, transparency, twitter, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=48
24 ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6
css, fix, hack, ie6, javascript, png, transparency saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6
Wired 15.04: The See-Through CEO
article, blogging, business, communication, management, transparency, trust saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_ceo.html
WikiDashboard - Providing social transparency to Wikipedia
If we provide social transparency and enable attribution of work to individual workers in Wikipedia, then this will eventually result in increased credibility and trust in the page conten...
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http://wikidashboard.parc.com
WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web - ReadWriteWeb
A very interesting site for whistle blowers called WikiLeaks is facing government censorship as today a California judge reportedly ruled that the company in control of the site's domain ...
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikileaks_censorship.php
Who Gets How Much Money and Where It Goes :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs
At Oregon State University, that kind of detailed information on financial transactions is accessible online, albeit only to those connected to computers on the campus.
2008, article, corruption, scrutiny, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/07/financial
Techdirt: France Decides That Expressing An Opinion About Your Teachers Should Be Illegal
What is wrong with a site that allows students to rate their teachers, and allows students, parents and the schools themselves to see what the students feel about various teachers?
2008, article, censorship, feedback, france, freedom, privacy, rating, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080304/005526425.shtml
Web Worker Daily » Archive Microsoft to Open Source: You Win «
Microsoft announced today the release of some of its technical crown jewels: the heretofore secret APIs Microsoft products used to talk with each other.
2008, article, microsoft, opensource, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-to-open-source-you-win
Gunther Eysenbach's random research rants: The recurring themes in "openess 2.0"
Web 2.0 (Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Science 2.0) highlights and magnifies (compared to Web 1.0 or pre-Web Internet) the transformative power of openness, transparency and apomediation.
2008, apomediation, article, eysenbach, health2.0, openness, science2.0, transparency, web2.0 saved by: meryn more details ...
http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/01/recurring-themes-in-openess-20.html
UNdemocracy
This site has nothing to do with the real UN website or any part of the United Nations itself. It is merely a private attempt to provide Web 2.0 compliant access to many of the important ...
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http://www.undemocracy.com
The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology and Society - Rethinking Peer Review
The last few decades of peer review may someday be remembered as [...] an aberration produced by an explosion of researcher productivity and the constraints of print publication, eventual...
2006, accountability, article, conversation, openness, peer-review, publishing, rating, science, submission, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/soa/peerreview.htm
Africa's Plight: The Idea Network
The main motors of this spontaneous Internet movement are openness, transparency, networking, and a focus on innovation.
2008, article, cooperation, development, innovation, kreutz, networks, openness, transparency, web2.0, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.ip-global.org/archiv/2008/spring2008/the-idea-network.html
commonspace: Open, philanthropy and a theory of change
The core principles here have some merit: filter for ideas with traction; be rigorous about packaging and promoting ideas with promise; and jump on opportunities to spread and go viral.
2008, article, conversation, openness, opensource, philantrophy, sharing, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2008/02/open-philanthro.html
Open government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open government is the political doctrine which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_government
commonspace: What is open philanthropy?
Most philanthropy is disconnected from creative social change. We need to respond with an open philanthropy approach that backs inventive social change agents.
2007, article, entrepreneurship, leadership, openness, philanthropy, socialmedia, socialnetworks, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/2007/09/what-is-open-ph.html
The Value of Openness: The PatientsLikeMe Blog » Business Development in Health 2.0: Blazing the Trail to Profitability
We attempt to match the needs of our patients with the goals of our partners. If the two are misaligned, then we pass on the deal.
2008, alignment, article, business, credibility, ethics, future, health2.0, openness, transparency, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blog.patientslikeme.com/2008/02/05/business-development-in-health-20blazing-the-trail...
WorldChanging: The Future of Philanthropy: Innovation, Networks, Thought Leaders and the Fringe
Good philanthropy, it seems to me, funds innovation that would otherwise never emerge, and supports action where none would otherwise be taken.
2007, activism, article, crowdsourcing, diversity, empowerement, engagement, entrepreneurship, expertise, fundraising, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006796.html
Interview with Alex Steffen, part one | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
What we need to invent: a vision of the future that is both prosperous and ecological, both attractive and sustainable, both bright and green. We need to present an optimistic future wort...
2005, commons, consumerism, control, distributed, future, innovation, interview, leadership, openaccess, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/8/30/85141/8338
Getting Green Done - Lifehack.org
Ultimately living by Green principles can be far more satisfying than grabbing whatever you can while the getting’s good.
2008, article, consumption, fairness, fairtrade, green, lifestyle, sustainability, transparency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/getting-green-done.html
Every Good Blogger Starts with Trust | Employee Evolution
The world of social media has certainly changed the way individuals become credible. With a little passion and some solid opinions, anyone can start a blog and make a name for themselves ...
2008, alignment, article, blogging, credibility, genuineness, honesty, meritocracy, presentation, socialmedia, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.employeeevolution.com/archives/2008/03/27/every-good-blogger-begins-with-trust
The Gartner Fellows: Tom Malone's Interview
I think we're in the early stages of an increase of human freedom in business that may, in the long run, be as important a change for business as the change to democracies has been for g...
2005, autonomy, conversation, coordiation, creativity, csr, decentralization, distributed, flexibility, freedom, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.gartner.com/research/fellows/asset_126360_1176.jsp
The EnviroMedia Greenwashing Index – Home
The world’s first online interactive forum that allows consumers to evaluate real advertisements making environmental claims.
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http://greenwashingindex.com
Cross-Browser PNG alpha-transparency
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http://eriestuff.blogspot.com/2007/11/cross-browser-png8-alpha-transparency.html
ie7-js - Google Code
A JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser.
browser, css, development, explorer, forcomar, html, ie5, ie6, ie7, internet, More... saved by: davidar and 3 people more details ...
http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js
Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding
In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them.
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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/21/powerful-css-techniques-for-effective-coding
Google Privacy Center
We let you know what information we collect when you use our products and services, why we collect it, and how we safeguard it. Our privacy policies, videos, and product designs aim to ma...
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http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html
Open Source Flash - pngpong
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http://osflash.org/projects/pngpong
psyrendust » PNGPong
PNGPong Cross-browser solution for displaying transparent PNG’s in IE, Firefox, and Safari.
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http://blog.psyrendust.com/pngpong
IE PNG Fix
add decent PNG support to IE5.5 on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code
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http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix