The Daily Entrepreneur: Transparency, Twitter, and Turmoil

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-03-18 17:47:00 UTC
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Good news for transparency, interesting tweeple, and some important introspection in today's Daily Entrepreneur:

Sunlight Foundation Announces $4 Million Investment from Omidyar Network: Government transparency innovator the Sunlight Foundation has received a nice fat grant from Omidyar Network to expand it's work digitizing and opening access to government information. Follow Sunlight co-founder and ED Ellen Miller on Twitter @ellnmllr and Omidyar Network head Pierre Omidyar @pierre.

Top 100 Social Entrepreneurs, Businesses, and Ideas on Twitter: Social entrepreneurship themed webmag Social Earth posted a list of interesting Tweets, organized into categories like "humanitarian," "media/news," "microfinance," and "green." Good list!

AIG & Me: Tom Peters, one of my favorite "management gurus," takes a reflective look at his role in promoting (or not more strongly condemning) the view of capitalism at the root of today's turmoil.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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