Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

Today, we're joining what is probably the largest online protest in history , by blacking out significant portions of the Benetech website, as well as our Martus and HRDAG human rights websites. Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

It's definitely easier to grab great videos off the Internet to put on your website or blog than to make them. In general, it's fine to post video that you create yourself on your website. Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

With so many cute cat photos on the Internet, it's tempting to just grab one and use it on your website. But what are the rules and where can you get good public domain or Creative Commons images to spice up your website? copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

There are complex copyright and fair use issues, and new PR and crisis communications challenges. Content needs to be checked and referenced, and sometimes falls short. Outsourcing your marketing entirely to AI will result in bad marketing and will hurt your brand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

We also can (and do) make them freely available on our website. That's a huge difference compared to copyrighted works that we convert under the copyright exemption, which we have to keep under tight controls to restrict copyrighted works to only the use of people with bona fide print disabilities in the U.S.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 21, 2012

It has come to our attention that your Citibank account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. Copyright 2012 CitiBank. Thank you for your Cardmembership. Sincerely, CitiBank Customer Care. All rights reserved. CASEUPSW0001005.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

Example RFP for a larger website build (PDF). Example RFP for a smaller website build (PDF). Will the agency have a role in migrating existing website content? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? RFP Resources and Templates. Questions to ask a potential vendor (PDF). Check this out.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 11, 2011

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). Never share it with anyone, and avoid logging in to fraudulent Websites by always visiting www.westernunion.com directly. This one is kind of funny. Then there's the tortured grammar in the first sentence.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Someone started a parody website called GetaFirstLife.com and the reaction of Linden Labs was to send a trademark approval letter ! But, hearing something like the following story makes me feel good about Linden Labs, the folks that operated Second Life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.” Our commitment is to provide access to books for those who are unable to read a traditional print format and to do so without harming the economic interests of authors and publishers.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

14 Sites to Help You With AI Art Image Prompts : A curated list of 14 websites that provide AI art image prompts and resources. Ensure that the images you create do not infringe on copyrights, promote harmful content, or misrepresent your organization.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It can also include intangible property, such as copyrights and patents. Whether your wish list is posted on your website or uploaded through an online merchant, people can purchase goods to be sent to your organization.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2021

Further, it gives everyone in it an opportunity to write good ads and produce high-quality content for your website. Any work done on your website can easily be amplified by the Google Grant. In Google Ads, conversions are any important action that a user takes on your website. Often, these keywords are easy to avoid.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 11, 2007

can easily see which books have global permissions, which are required when we can't rely on our copyright exemption (which only works inside the U.S.). Now I'm getting delighted emails from Susie about multiple schools that simply went to the website and signed up by themselves in the first day or two of the upgrade.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. The AUP is an integral part of security policies for businesses, universities, schools, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

First, Carrie and I waited impatiently for the week's books to be announced on the NYT website, always on Fridays, but at various times of day. If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. Carrie, who manages the scanning and proofing of books for Bookshare, has worked out a procedure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

DAISY Audio and MP3 formats offer Bookshare members more choices to read on the go In this case, we upgraded the Bookshare website to allow direct downloads of accessible MP3 files for a small number of Bookshare ebooks. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I met the developer behind WebVisum, which is getting much attention from blind people for its ability to make CAPTCHAs (those annoying squiggly words you have to type to access many websites) accessible. And that's just two examples. I'm hoping to have new Bookshare.org users from many new countries as a result of my visit there.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Wireframes are skeleton layouts of key pages or templates for a website and are used to position elements on the page without colors, styles or photography. Wireframes also allow for the team to plan out key interactions for the website and how the site might adapt to various devices and screen sizes. Methodology. Visual Design.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

The Hong Kong Society for the Blind Home Page The Hong Kong Blind Union | 香港失明人坔進會: 本會新消杯 (website has no English) Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired | å¿ƒå…‰ç›²äººé™¢æš¨å­¸æ ¡ Our timing was great: we had excellent meetings in all three places.

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Organizations aren’t just raising money through direct mail and phone banking – they are raising money through email fundraising appeals, their websites, and, to an extent, through text-to-give campaigns. Copyright: Who Really Owns Your Photos, Video and Media? It has also changed the way we do business. Here’s why.

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Care2

MAY 19, 2008

60) Search « Landing Page Optimization for Online Fundraising | Main | The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email » Monday May 19 2008 Care2 Website Goes Green, Saves 341,000 KW-hours Monday, May 19, 2008 at 05:08PM | by Hatef Yamini I was really excited to drive into work this morning in a Toyota Prius.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

Many nonprofits who are going through a website redesign on a tight budget want to know the best ways to find and hire a web vendor, especially ones that will understand their goals and challenges. Will the agency have a role in developing the website content? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. All of this work helps us support the international effort for full implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty —a global copyright exception model that provides the legal framework for greater sharing of accessible books across national borders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

" She gave us a primer on copyright and fairuse , shared her experienced from a blogging community for law students, talked about her plans for teaching this topic on the 3-D virtual world, there.com. The State of Play is a law and technology academy built in a virtual world. guest access???).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. Amazon is the company that built Target's website. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. The Textbook problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without the artist's permission, works protected by copyright -- wherever they are displayed -- except for certain very limited purposes, and property, privacy, and contract law may indeed preempt that. It's really out of our hands.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Do not reference or identify any person, entity, trademark, copyright, or property in your post unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing. Sponsor may, but is under no obligation to, post the winning post on the Sponsor's website (or to otherwise use the post).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. Asset Based Community Development can be a great way to start thinking about community, but the important thing is to move beyond theory and on to action. Action in this case really means interaction.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

2] A copy of this notice is posted on the IRS website and a list of organizations that have had their nonprofit status revoked. [3] If you have additional questions, please contact us through the Ask the Nonprofit Specialists section of the ASU Lodestar Centers website, or call us at 602-496-0550. 7] Additional questions?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

According to their website, they get state money to provide services to adults and children with developmental disabilities. The website resolves to a similar organization called Lets Bring them Home , headquartered in Arkansas. Turns out, it probably would have been better to leave them out. The largest one, reporting $2.3

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US. Maximize email signup opportunities across your websites and social media channels. For example, integrate signup forms for web visitors to receive the latest news on XYZ issue near the website header and on every page of your website.

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

All of our clients are very interested in the number of visitors to their website or the number of views of their videos. The issue of website traffic is big in the commercial world because it relates directly to ad revenue. Here’s the issue: On many new website pages, you can see lots of content without reloading the page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This video really helped me get an idea of who Charles Best is, and how his philanthropic website, DonorsChoose.org , is making a huge difference in the lives of school children around the country — and even around the world. He definitely is "character approved" in my book.

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