Last night Social Media Club NY met and there was a focused presentation by John Havens about his work with the The Transparency Manifesto. What does it mean for businesses (or all organizations, for that matter) to be tranparent online? What information can and should be shared to establish and maintain credibility and authenticity? John recounted two great stories to illustrate his message, one with Scoble at Microsoft and another with Scoble and PodCampNYC. What information may be too much to share (e.g., HIPAA, salaries of employees, trade secrets)?
I immediately thought about my recent posts regarding the changing dynamics of authority and expertise, as I see them related in the manner that online information and sharing is more immediate and democratic (readily accessible without great costs or insurmountable obstacles to get started) than it was in the past where information was controlled by the educated and wealthy elite.
John has invited anybody who is interested in his work to participate in this project, and he will share the information with the wiki password for this. It seems he is looking to publish the resulting work, though the impression I have is that he is looking to begin this discussion and then see where it leads.
Yes, there were a lot of other discussions that occurred at the session last night (i.e., wireless social media, the changing advertzing model, global perspectives of texting), and as I am writing this from my Moleskine notebook, I am focusing on what stuck with me the most after processing the event. Perhaps I will liveblog the next meeting as a (possible) continuation to the liveblogging research projects in which I am engaged?
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Pageflakes, the personal Web 2.0 homepage I use in Internet Explorer, has just released a revision, entitled Blizzard. I found it when I opened a new browser window, and at first thought there was something broken because I did not expect to see anything different. While they list their new features here, the one tweak I have repeatedly requested was not done, namely my request to set how many of my del.icio.us bookmarks should appear (they have capped this at 20, and I want all of mine to show to save me clicking the Next 20 Posts button twice). My Weather Flake no longer works properly, and the new snowflake background on the site is a strange contrast to the current 83 degrees with humidity here in NYC.
However, I do like the more contemporary look that reminds me of the light and airy features of Windows Aero. I like the newly-integrated browsing of new flakes. It definitely loaded faster (which is more important than anything, since I come here as a hop-stop to the Net). It has a more distinctive and edgier look than NetVibes (which loads with a strange place-holder page that appears before my own content loads slowly slowly slowly if it does not freeze) and iGoogle (which, ironically, looks a bit old-fashioned and sterile).
I welcome this new iteration of Pageflakes, and plan to continue using it as the best alternative to opening directly to Google. BTW, the best feature of Pageflakes may just be that it has a Google search box right there on top that opens the results in a new window. Open PageFlakes once, and all navigation from there will leave it loaded and intact. Pretty good.
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