Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Nimble AMS

JULY 9, 2020

License payments – Do you want a “perpetual license” in which you pay more up front and save in subsequent years, or a “software as a service” solution, in which you spread payments out over the lifecycle of the system by paying a fee per user per month? This will help filter out “wants” from “needs”. There’s more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Logins, Lists, and Licenses. Also, be sure to transfer any licenses tied to you as an individual in the organization. Adobe, Microsoft, and other common platforms use user-specific licensing that may need to be reassigned. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? How do I communicate my content???s non-exclusive???

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Applying for any necessary licensing or permits. Each state has different licensing rules depending on the type of nonprofit you’re starting. Recurring donors provide you with reliable revenue, while major donors’ gifts will likely fund the majority of your programs and projects. Project or program coordinator.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

These RFPs have giant lists of requirements related to how content will be authored, formatted and published. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites? The post What is the Best Content Management System For an Association Website? Depends on what?,

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

These RFPs have giant lists of requirements related to how content will be authored, formatted and published. We often get asked this question: What is the best content management system (CMS) for association websites? The post What is the Best Content Management System For an Association Website? Depends on what?,

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

If funders, grantors, and key stakeholders are not on board with the JEDI-centered approach to hiring a consultant, you could face conflict or barriers to engaging the consultant and moving your project forward. . The final step is to tailor the process to fit your project or initiative. Broaden your reach. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. Here's the description.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

web projects we think the federal government should fund. These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

I am part of the Digital Arts Service Corps, which is an initiative of the Transmission Project that pairs tech-savvy AmeriCorps Vistas with organizations dedicated to supporting community media and technology. My project this year is to create a collaborative among seven different community media centers (CMCs) in the greater bay area.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

Ben asked me to participate in this very fun and insightful project to highlight and share our views of the top 5 trends for the next decade for technology and social media that will impact charity communications. portability – moving to the cloud; conversations and content moves seamlessly across platforms. What were my ideas?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Logins, Lists, and Licenses. Also, be sure to transfer any licenses tied to you as an individual in the organization. Adobe, Microsoft, and other common platforms use user-specific licensing that may need to be reassigned. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The reason I am excited about this project is because it represents a new area of inquiry for me as well as a chance to deepen my learning in the topics that I've been writing about here on this blog for years. Here's the project description (and it's evolving). Here's the project description (and it's evolving).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. It made we wonder about how one can create a small scale, manageable method for a small organization to collect stories and use them as a feedback loop – AND part of their communications/content strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. November 1-15th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Sure, you can deliver a lot of a great content, but the real joy of being a trainer is seeing how your participants apply what they learned. I was excited and terrified, and, ultimately, did not complete my action learning project. It’s still scary to set quantifiable goals for a project and report on whether we reached them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. Why make the book available for free under a Creative Commons license? I didn't have the time to do a concurrent release for The Art of Relevance because of the Abbott Square project , but I'm catching up now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some folks call newly developed knowledge "intellectual property," but this obscures the fact that we don't treat ideas and content the same way as we treat a house or land. If you give all knowledge away freely, you'll discourage people and companies from investing in creating valuable technology and content.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

To achieve this new direction, we have outsourced most of the day-to-day network administration so I can focus on other projects that impact our staff and grantees. We received our software licenses in two days and installed them right away. After looking at online project management tools, we chose Microsoft Project 2010.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data. informatics Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed. Dave is a journalist 2.0,

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer. Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

Find the creative design products you're looking for with this handy guide, and start making engaging content today! Perpetual Licenses. Take our quiz to help choose the right product for your project. Best of all, all organization types and budget sizes are eligible for discounted products from Adobe. every year after.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

Speaking of resources, Microsoft recently offered the licensing to their Local Impact Map , free of cost, to nonprofits. Our friends at SocialFish recently announced their Think Tank Summer eLearning Series , featuring five sessions covering a range of social media topics, from Pinterest to Google+ to creating and curating content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Material should be posted under an unencumbered open content license, so that the content can be shared widely, especially in case of the Clearinghouse losing funding as some future date (so that the content can be freely moved to a new home) • Promotion: the Clearinghouse won’t matter if no one visits.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Decatur, Illinois: Storytelling, Planning, and Scheduling Content for Your Nonprofit #Storymakers2017. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: The Content Marketing Blueprint. Washington, D.C.:

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Rickshaw Bank provides a lease-to-own model for their redesigned rickshaws, and “back-end support” like insurance and licensing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Covina, California: Monetization of Content. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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