On August 4, the New York Times broke the bombshell that Verizon and Google were meeting about net neutrality to broker their own proposal. Then, on August 9, Google and Verizon took a left turn, and announced their own joint proposal for an "open internet." What we DON'T buy is that this proposal is a viable solution.

1: The Search Box) » I’ve Looked at RFPs from Both Sides Now… Posted Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 2:14 pm by Elizabeth (27 posts) In 11+ years in association management, I’ve been on both sides of the Request For Proposal process more times than I can count.  And DO make your proposal easy to read and process.  Finito. 

Groups are great and they share lots of data including proposals, plans, budgets, etc. Why does most the literature and information in proposals not give online organizers enough to chew on? I started to think about all the campaign meetings and discussions I have been in over the years. These are not in order. What is success?

They envision organizations working like an ocean sponge — anchored to the ocean floor (the cause) and they allow water and sea life to flow through them (human talent, ideas, strategies) but they skillfully capture the good (innovation, free agents) and let the bad (silos, protocols) flow out. read more. Tools

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? That's not an endorsement of my proposal by the WEF, but I am certainly looking forward to going next week!

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards.

In the statute: "authorized entity" means a nonprofit organization or a governmental agency that has a primary mission to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities; In this case, authorized means authorized under the statute.

I'd need to spend time learning about your organization to make any kind of informed recommendation. You can start by sending out a Request for Information or Request for Proposals with some yes/no/maybe questions about your top needs (e.g., Talk to organizations with similar fundraising programs, staffing, IT support, etc.

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Allowances for import and export of such material between countries by people or organizations.

This being an unconference, it aimed to self-organized by interest and we started by everyone giving a three words introduction of their background and interest. We also have mounds of data extracted from nonprofit social services and educational organizations at tremendous cost of time and infrastructure. Mine way, “share data now.”)