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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "The Art of Data.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Friday, March 4, 2011 Research Friday: "The Art of Data Interpretation" posted by Robert F. We welcome your comments and feedback. If our research is to be valid and useful, the design, data collection, and analysis must be meticulous and exacting. Another vexing challenge to researchers is the interpretation of data.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

ASU Lodestar Center

If you have your own tips for nonprofit success, please share in the comments section below. Hello friends, it looks like the comment section was down, - it deleted a couple of comments - but is up and working now! But, the cards are copyrighted by Gallup. Sorry about the missing comments, folks!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

ASU Lodestar Center

We welcome your comments and feedback. And on April 29-30, nonprofit scholars came together at the 8th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference to share current research and discuss methodological developments in the field. In the spirit of learning, weve put together a fun quiz on Arizonas nonprofit sector. Nice quiz!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Creating, Building, and Sustaining.

ASU Lodestar Center

Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:16 PM Labels: Asset Based Community Development , Chandler , community , Hannah Humphrey , nonprofits , Public Allies , social media 1 comments: George King said. Maybe youll find that your community is made up of people around the world, or maybe youll discover that theyre right next door.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:13 PM Labels: AmeriCorps , Arizona Citizens for the Arts , Michael Soto , Public Allies 1 comments: Siobhansaid. Thank you, Michael for sharing your story and reminding all of us Americorps Alums of our service to this Country. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.