Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). I write a fair bit of science fiction, and also write other stuff. I’m talking in this post about self-publishing eBooks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!) In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Wonderful stuff.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat. The chat stressed the importance of communicating about privacy and copyright for those concerned about participating in digital storytelling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source screen readers. A couple of days later I had breakfast with my host, Professor Sena, and we talked in depth about the need for copyright changes in India, a cause he had been championing for years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

We need to avoid simplistic solutions to the complexities: Open Standards Fundamentalist: we just need XML. Open Source Fundamentalist: we just need Linux. Legal Fundamentalist: it breaches copyright, ??? Vendor Fundamentalist: we must use next version of our enterprise system (and you must fit in with this).

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Lucy Bernholz , on her Philanthropy 2173 Blog , wrote a post called " Foundations Set Your Content Free where she shares an interesting historical perspective of open sourcing your work. She describes several different systems and share economies. The license deed and language do not specify what that means.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Reform Copyright. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Joins Mozilla Maker Party 2016. Thursday, November 10, 2016.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

In the coming months, developers will be able to share information and best practices and theres the potential of creating an open source community around Convio Open APIs. Open source applications built using Convio APIs would significantly reduce the cost of implementing custom applications using Convio Open.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

open source. Copyright © 2008. Micro-philanthropy. net2mashup. New releases. Non-profit Communications. Non-profit technology. NPC Carnival. online community. online storage. podcasting. project management. Reader Polls. Social networking. spreadsheets. text to speech. February 2007 (10). January 2007 (12). August 2006 (4).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2006

If you are confident in this fact, then making all kinds of content open source is a benefit to the museum--extending the reach of the content, motivating interest in the brand, encouraging others to use and experiment with your content. Why go to the museum if you can see it all online in your pajamas?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Thanks to the Internet, open data efforts, and open source software projects, a variety of free and low-cost tools are now available that allow NPO/community group staff to dive into mapping. May 24, 2009 | Not for Profit Marketer Copyright © 2008, Care2.com May 6, 2009 | Beth Kanter Im sorry I missed these sessions.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

iFixit is an online repair community and parts retailer internationally renowned for its open-source repair manuals and product "teardowns." Copyright Office, completed its "triannual" rulemaking on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The huge Volkswagen scandal seems to have helped the cause.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email is a critical channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. PicMark is a free tool that easily enables you to watermark your images before uploading them to social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. is a free open source application. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator. It is not a cloud application.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Democracy Lab : DemocracyLab is an experiment in direct democracy, powered by open source software, and built on the idea that technology can empower us to harness freedom of speech and the power of the vote to solve today’s most challenging problems. March 19, 2009 | Kristin Wolff Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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