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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. “He

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. copyright law. They send Bookshare the same digital book files that they provide to Amazon, Apple or Barnes and Noble.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Lost Your Tax-Exemption? What Next ?

ASU Lodestar Center

What Next — posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center The IRS has begun to revoke the tax-exempt status for those nonprofit organizations that have not filed some form of a 990 (information report) for three years. These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license? It includes classical, jazz, world, and beyond.

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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional. There is a link to the download and the written instructions. They are using copyrighted music, but give a big disclaimer and plea to support those musicians by buying their music. It is seven minutes long flash movie file produced at 640x480. Editing is done to the music and works well. Production.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The title is " Remix This Powerpoint " -- it's some draft thoughts on remixing and wink to SlideShare's new feature - the ability to download the Powerpoint file ! Youth trying to learn new art mediums, they often incorrectly use copyrighted works.they create a derivative work.a site that has photos, etc.,

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. instructional video. Copyright © 2008. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007.