OpeningParliament.org – Opening, Monitoring and Supporting the World’s Parliaments and Legislative Institutions
http://www.openingparliament.org/

OpeningParliament.org is a forum intended to help connect the world’s civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries’ parliaments and legislative institutions. Parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) are working to create strong, open and accountable parliaments, through enhancing citizen participation in the legislative process and bringing parliaments closer to the people they represent. OpeningParliament.org provides a forum for international collaboration on efforts to improve access to parliamentary information and share experiences and good practices among PMOs. It also serves as the home of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, a set of shared principles on the openness, transparency and accessibility of parliaments developed by the international PMO community. OpeningParliament.org and the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness are outcomes of a conference of PMOs co-hosted by the National Democratic Institute, the Sunlight Foundation, and Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency, in Washington, D.C. The conference, held from April 30-May 2, 2012, brought together PMOs from 38 countries worldwide to facilitate discussion of international strategies for improving access to useable parliamentary information and sharing good practices in advocating for parliamentary transparency and in monitoring parliamentary performance. The gathering was supported by the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations, the National Endowment for Democracy, the World Bank Institute and the Embassy of Mexico to the United States. This has been added to New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. The Declaration On Parliamentary Openness is available by clicking here.

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
http://www.openoasis.org/

OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and they invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Updated> Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/

I am pleased to announce that I have just updated my Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ and it is now a 29 page (259KB) .pdf white paper document is available from the above URL. It lists alphabetically the latest resources available from the Internet for Data Mining. Additional white papers and resources by Marcus P. Zillman are available by clicking here.

SpotCloud – Best Providers and Best Price
http://www.spotcloud.com/

SpotCloud is the world’s first global market for cloud capacity. Buy and sell computing capacity globally based on price, locastion, and quality on a fast and secure platform. Features include: a) Buy Capacity – SpotCloud is the world’s best place to buy cloud servers. Instantly get the broadest choice of precise geo-targeted capacity at the best price; and b) Sell Capacity – SpotCloud provides a powerful channel to increase utilization and drive new revenue. Easily sell idle server capacity with instant access to global markets. This will be added to Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources Subject Tracer™.

OpeningParliament.org – Opening, Monitoring and Supporting the World’s Parliaments and Legislative Institutions
http://www.openingparliament.org/

OpeningParliament.org is a forum intended to help connect the world’s civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries’ parliaments and legislative institutions. Parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) are working to create strong, open and accountable parliaments, through enhancing citizen participation in the legislative process and bringing parliaments closer to the people they represent. OpeningParliament.org provides a forum for international collaboration on efforts to improve access to parliamentary information and share experiences and good practices among PMOs. It also serves as the home of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, a set of shared principles on the openness, transparency and accessibility of parliaments developed by the international PMO community. OpeningParliament.org and the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness are outcomes of a conference of PMOs co-hosted by the National Democratic Institute, the Sunlight Foundation, and Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency, in Washington, D.C. The conference, held from April 30-May 2, 2012, brought together PMOs from 38 countries worldwide to facilitate discussion of international strategies for improving access to useable parliamentary information and sharing good practices in advocating for parliamentary transparency and in monitoring parliamentary performance. The gathering was supported by the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations, the National Endowment for Democracy, the World Bank Institute and the Embassy of Mexico to the United States. This has been added to New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. The Declaration On Parliamentary Openness is available by clicking here.

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
http://www.openoasis.org/

OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and they invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Updated> Grant Resources
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2009/08/grant-resources-white-paper-link.html

The white paper link compilation of the Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. has just been updated and is now a freely available 17 page .pdf document (190KB) listing the latest and greatest online resources and sites for grants! Updated February 26, 2013. Other white papers are available by clicking here.

ClearSpending – Making Sense of the Federal Checkbook
http://sunlightfoundation.com/clearspending/

Keeping Tabs on USASpending.gov. They have taken data from other federal reporting systems and compared it with just the grants data found in USASpending.gov across three categories: Consistency, Completeness and Timeliness. How close are the reported dollar amounts to the yearly estimates? How many of the required fields are filled out in each record? And how long did it take the agency to report the money once it was allocated to a project? View their scorecard to find out. This has been added to New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information blog.

papirus.net – Project Management Service
https://papirus.net/

papirus.net’s Project Management Service is designed for small to medium sized organizations. Papirus makes it easy for you to manage projects, organize your tasks, monitor overdue assignments, arrange a formal workflow, and communicate with other project team members. Papirus is a web-based application, with a corresponding app for every popular mobile platform, including: iPhone/iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7. Papirus is based on the idea of structured communication. Its main aim is to have all of the information about a specific task recorded in one place, while ensuring that the process of assigning responsibility for that task is very transparent. Transparent assignment of responsibility for each task ensures that necessary information is delivered only to the involved members, without distracting other team members with non-relevant communications. By keeping other team members focused on their own responsibilities, the amount of time it takes to complete a task – whether a small assignment or a large project – can be reduced, thus improving overall task management. When a team member logs into Papirus, they see a list of the tasks they are currently responsible for. They can organize their list of tasks using the GTD® (“Getting Things Done®”) method, or whatever other method they prefer. By default, a team member will not see any information about tasks that other team members are responsible for, though they do have the ability to view them, if those tasks are shared with them. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™.

Skype In the Workplace – Share Your Business Ideas and Connect Using Skype
https://workspace.skype.com/

The place for your business to share ideas and connect using Skype. Offer your business skills, pose a question, or share your experience and expertise with the community. A new way of doing business. How Skype in the workspace can help your business: a) Find – Find the services you need from a global community of experts; b) Promote – Add your services to make new connections, share inspiration and help grow your business; and c) Organize – Helps you get the most from your Skype connections. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.