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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN has just announced the first NTC video competition. And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know.

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Master Mashup: Viral Marketing from Bob Dylan

Museum 2.0

He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. Click the red box above once the video has loaded to see what I'm talking about (thanks to Jim Spadaccini for sharing). What's a mashup? This mashup turns a simple list of quotes into a geographically browsable conversation.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This YouTube video is from Kenneth Goldstein and it's hilarious. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content. TechSoup recently published a FAQ about " Borrowing Images from the Web.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things.

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non Non Commercial???

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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