Transparency

The WelchmanPierpoint offices are located in Baltimore, MD. So what, you ask?  Well, Baltimore is about 40 minutes by train from Washington, DC, so, we have a lot of federal government clients. We didn't plan it that way, it just worked out like that.  As it turns out, that's not a bad thing.  Federal government agencies for the most part have pretty messed up Web sites. And that's what we like: big, super-bad, un-navigable Web site atrocities.

One buzzword that will forever be linked to 2009 is "Transparency." The topic has been associated with corporate governance for years, thanks in part to Enron and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

In an effort to make their site governance more transparent, Facebook has invited all members to vote on the final version of its Web policies. Voting will remain open until April 23.

For the past 30 days the company held an open commenting period on draft policies. Members have the opportunity to review all drafts and comments as well as contribute their own feedback. They've even gone a step further by including copies of policies in multiple languages including French, German, Spanish and Italian.