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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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Questions to Ask During the RFP Process

Whole Whale

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Technology. Do they have expertise in a particular technology?

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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. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff.

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The Ultimate Checklist to Choose a Web Vendor

Care2

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Technology. Do they have expertise in a particular technology?

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Mac or PC [link] GarageBand: Free with Mac [link] Podcast Hosting Liberated Syndication https://www.libsyn.com. $5-$30 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

So far people have contributed everything from a Firefox extension that recommends social actions as you browse the web, to a Wordpress module that recommends social actions based on the content of a post, to a service that makes it super easy for companies to find, sponsor, and showcase charitable actions from various platforms at once.

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Bring Your Idea to Life at Social Actions Wiki - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

So far people have contributed everything from a Firefox extension that recommends social actions as you browse the web, to a Wordpress module that recommends social actions based on the content of a post, to a service that makes it super easy for companies to find, sponsor, and showcase charitable actions from various platforms at once.

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