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sharing is good

This page contains stuff developed by Dvize for everyone to use and share.

website production business documents

  • Sample website agreement
  • Interactive website brief

sustainability

  • Bindarri blog – australian design for positive change
  • Bindarri directory – australia’s largest collection of creative change websites
  • ENVI – carbon neutral paper
  • How to Host a Green Christmas Function
  • Design Guide for designers who care – currently being updated.
  • FutureAustralia The Australian environment and community directory. 2000+ links in 93 categories
  • Map of Australian Nuclear Sites

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social media and the internet for business

these resources were developed under our brand PBT Digital

  • Online Content Made Easy – Use the internet to increase bookings for your business
  • Top fifteen free methods to increase traffic to your website
  • Top five expert methods to convert website traffic to bookings

creative commons

  • Aeroplane desk clock – build plans
  • Art – our whole art section is licenced CC

wordpress

  • WordPress install and website setup guide
  • Learning WordPress for site managers
  • Inove-U WordPress theme
  • Dvize Minny WordPress theme
  • Recommended sites for WordPress themes
  • Recommended WordPress plug-ins

drupal

  • Drupal 6 website configuration and setup steps for a basic Drupal install that includes a wysywig editor and contact form
  • Dvize Drupal 5 end user guide how to manage basic content for beginners

plone

  • Plone CSS – navigation tree
  • dynamic rounded tabs

website baker

  • Website baker user manual
  • Website baker templates

because

Before the invention of the printing press, the Christian church owned the limited copies of the bible and therefore controlled the knowledge of their God. Their interpretation of God’s knowledge gave them political and financial power over society.

Using the printing press to print bibles was deemed blasphemous, as the distribution of knowledge would dissipate the church’s control of information. The full force of the law was directed at stopping bibles being printed.

As well as in the christian world, the printing press was an important step towards the democratization of knowledge and was a factor in the innovation within other genres such as literature, philosophy, art, politics, and science, during the Renaissance period.

Currently powerful institutions such as corporations and governments are controlling knowledge through patents and copyright.

According to one patent document, sequences of the code of my DNA are owned by a company in America and any medical researchers have to pay royalties to this company to use the sequences.

Legislation such as the millennium copyright act is increasing the power of international law to enforce the ownership and restriction of knowledge.

We now have technologies as revolutionary as the printing press and we need to use these to free knowledge, information and ideas. The power must be found in this renaissance to counteract the powerful institutions of today and transform our society to become sustainable.

Creating this new renaissance is as easy as sharing our ideas…

Check out:

  • Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
  • RIP: A Remix Manifesto

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