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Transparency Camp West 2009
August 15, 2009 — 1 Comment
The non-profit organization Sunlight Foundation, together with Google, hosted “TransparencyCamp West 2009,” a two-day unconference on transparency in government, to convene…
- “a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.”
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants”
– Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
What is “transparency in government,” anyway? Here’s an outline as applied to federal government, but the ideals are relevant to state and local government as well.
generosity
March 13, 2009
This Friday the 13th has been marked by one theme: generosity.
ONE — There’s a homeless man in Los Angeles I’ve never met, but who by chance appeared on my Twitter screen today. It’s also his birthday. His job ends tomorrow and the shelter he uses closes tomorrow. So, to recap: he’s already homeless, whatever “work” he has ends tomorrow, and his “shelter” closes.
Happy Friday-the-13th birthday, pal.
His reaction?… here’s his tweet from earlier today:
@hardlynormal: “Here’s what I’d like 4 my bday! EVERYONE go do something REALLY NICE 4 a complete stranger then @ back #hnbday. Please retweet”
He’s having a Friday-the-13th nightmare of his own, and yet his focus is on others.
TWO — Another person I follow on Twitter (@kanter) is at the South By Southwest conference (SXSW) and forwarded this presentation under the heading “Is generosity the new corporate greed?” The presentation is from neilperkin.typepad.com.
Press the play button to watch the slideshow…
Goodness And Happiness – Why Generosity Is The Future Of Marketing Strategy
View more presentations from neilperkin.
THREE — Yet another random twitter tweet from a stranger brought his blog posting for today to my screen. Steve Averill is an Orange County technorati type who blogs and markets and writes and generally cajoles the soul… Check this out:
Business Counterculture: Turn On, Tune In, Help Out
And, by the way, that’s just the tip of the generocity iceberg.
Here’s my question — What does generosity mean to you today?