Friday’s here, time for an #interestingsite Last week, I started this idea that from now on, on Friday’s, I would post an interesting site. If nothing else, it gets me looking around for new and different concepts out there. This week, the choice is for a site that speaks to the Chinese internet market (literally!). [...]
Brand Building: The importance of Transparency and where to place the limits. Part III of a 4-post series Having discussed the issue of transparency at the governmental and societal levels, as well as the enlightening role of the Internet in the two previous posts, this third post is dedicated to the implications of transparency for [...]
WikiLeaks is one of the most riveting initiatives (read: ongoing battles) on the Internet and is putting a new spin on the transparency-anonymity debate. The Sunshine Press, which runs WikiLeaks, is an non-profit organization funded by human rights campaigners, investigative journalists, technologists and the general public. The “brown paper envelope of the digital age”, WikiLeaks.org could [...]
This is the second of four posts on the topic of Transparency. This second post deals with the role of the Internet in the evolving importance of transparency. With the Internet providing the opportunity for all people to express their opinion more or less liberally, governments, associations and companies – and to some extent even individuals — that reign by fear, with tight-fisted control will struggle to justify or manage their subjects. Lack of transparency and incongruent positions will, over time, be shown up.
Transparency is one of the important buzzwords that has surged into new management and leadership vocabulary and, surely, rightly so. It has, in fact, become such a buzzword that the University of Michigan has put it tops of its 2010 list of 15 words that should be banished. This post is the first of a [...]
