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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/personalization-accessibility-drupal.html">Personalization & Accessibility with Drupal</a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 06/04/2018</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>Accessibility is complicated. There is no single site that is universally accessible. One of the best initiatives I've seen by an organization was the BBC with their My web my way accessibility section. Unfortunately, they have decided to archive it and stop maintaining these pages. It is unclear to me whether any of the personalization options defined here will continue to be supported or not within the BBC. I do think that sites could do more to help explain how their users can get the...</span> </div> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/office-waste-reduction.html">Office Waste Reduction</a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 21/01/2018</span></span> </div>
<div class="views-field views-field-field-primary-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/office-waste-reduction.html"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-blog-landing-page" src="sites/default/files/styles/blog_landing_page/public/9557426839_2e9a2ebb53_z9b5a.jpg?itok=pBjy6FWb" width="220" height="140" alt="Recycling & trash cans in Thailand. " /></a></div> </div>
<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>I am a Quaker and I was going to meeting on Sunday and came in from the cold with a bit of a runny nose. I grabbed a tissue, used it and then threw it into the trash. I didn’t even think about it until a member of our community picked it out of the trash (along with some other garbage) and put it into the compost. She then went on to talk about how discouraged that she was about our ability to do something as simple as manage our garbage. I definitely agreed with her concerns, and yet I had...</span> </div> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 19/01/2018</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>OpenConcept is a Certified B Corporation. We understand that the economy exists within a fragile ecosystem. Capitalism is a powerful force but when it focused exclusively on profits it is also a serious threat to the future of humanity. We think that environmental reporting is something that all organizations should do to help us measure what matters. We put forward our first Environmental Report for 2016 just a few months ago, so this is mostly a matter of releasing our 2017 numbers:</p>...</span> </div> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/actively-encouraging-open-government-engagement.html">Actively Encouraging Open Government Engagement</a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 18/12/2017</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>I have been very encouraged by the growth of Open Government initiatives around the world. It’s done so much to help make governments more agile, responsive, accessible and affordable. Success of this model depends on a community of contributors, most of who who lie outside of government. This means that they also fall outside of the hierarchical chain of command.</p>
<p>How the public sector engages with that community may well determine how effective these initiatives are.</p>
Supporting...</span> </div> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 17/12/2017</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>OpenConcept’s sites have mostly been served from Canada. Like many others, we were concerned when the 2002 Homeland Security Act was put into place. Lots of organizations adopted our concern about what access the CIA, FBI, NSA would have on sites on American soil. This was an issue for us, but we certainly didn’t feel like these agencies would respect Canada’s border and indeed there might have additional restrictions within their territory.</p>
<p>Despite our concerns, we decided to move...</span> </div> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 17/11/2017</span></span> </div>
<div class="views-field views-field-field-primary-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/becoming-greener-company.html"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-blog-landing-page" src="sites/default/files/styles/blog_landing_page/public/38449143892_fd4aa20aa4_z3a8c.jpg?itok=O91bJ7RR" width="220" height="140" alt="Bright Green Frog" /></a></div> </div>
<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>When I started OpenConcept in 1999 it was with a keen awareness that we needed to make rapid changes to how Western Society was consuming the resources of our finite home. I knew that we would need to build collaboration between groups to ensure that we could hope to manage the challenges that we are going to need to face. I knew that technology was going to be the backbone of managing that enormous communications challenge. Because of my background and involvement in the environmental...</span> </div> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/openconcept-moves-carbon-neutral-hosting.html">OpenConcept Moves to Carbon Neutral Hosting </a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 16/11/2017</span></span> </div>
<div class="views-field views-field-field-primary-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/openconcept-moves-carbon-neutral-hosting.html"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-blog-landing-page" src="sites/default/files/styles/blog_landing_page/public/26690436839_8dd412f629_z9368.jpg?itok=diZEuvpN" width="220" height="140" alt="Hydro Electirc Dam" /></a></div> </div>
<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>OpenConcept is happy to have migrated our corporate servers into greener data centers. Currently all of our corporate servers are hosted by companies in Quebec that is almost entirely powered by hydro electric power. We have some dedicated servers with iWeb and are leveraging Amazon's new Montreal data center.</p>
<p>In discussions with Certified B Corporations like Man Overboard and Mighty Bytes, I have learned a lot about the impact of the growth of data centers around the world. Man...</span> </div> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/bullfrog-power-helps-us-reduce-our-ghg-emisions.html">Bullfrog Power Helps Us To Reduce Our GHG Emissions</a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 09/10/2017</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>With the climate chaos that we are seeing, it is clear that we need to do more to reduce our Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). Government and business leaders are getting behind the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These are 17 goals which are critical to our survival on this planet. Goal 13 is to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts", which is one I've been promoting personally for decades.</p>
<p>In 2008, OpenConcept Consulting entered into an environmental...</span> </div> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/drafting-procurement-policy.html">Drafting a Procurement Policy</a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 02/10/2017</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>OpenConcept is a pretty small company and most of our services we consume are digital, so in the scheme of things, we have a pretty small footprint on our planet and our local economy. That being said, as Mahatma Gandhi said “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."</p>
<p>I just returned from my second B Corp Champions Retreat and I am even more enthusiastic about being able to leverage our small contributions to make a much bigger impact. I believe...</span> </div> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="blog/mike/openconcept-ranks-top-10-b-corps-positive-employee-impact.html">OpenConcept ranks in top 10% of B Corps on Positive Employee Impact</a></h2> </div>
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<span class="views-field views-field-field-first-name"><span class="views-label views-label-field-first-name">By </span><span class="field-content">Mike</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-field-last-name"><span class="field-content">Gifford</span></span> <span class="views-field views-field-created"><span class="field-content">on 14/09/2017</span></span> </div>
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<div class="views-field views-field-body-1"> <span class="field-content"><p>We are happy to announce that OpenConcept Consulting Inc. has been recognized for creating the most positive overall community impact by the nonprofit B Lab.</p>
<p>OpenConcept has been named a winner in the Best for Workers list, which means that in our B Impact Assessment we scored in the top 10 percent of more than 2,255 companies around the world. B Corporations are for-profit companies from around the world that have been certified by B Lab against rigorous standards of social and...</span> </div> </div>
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