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Harry's Interview in the School Library Journal About Creative Commons!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Harry was interviewed for this article in the School Library Journal about Creative Commons - and the screencast we created in November. His photo was also featured in a Creative Commons poster by Berne Guerrero.

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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. Here’s the description.

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Video Your Message with Michael Hoffman Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

editing a screencast, I was really relieved to he say "yes editing takes a lot of time." One point he covered that I think is really important was the idea of using video regularly to document activities over time, assemble that as a library and use the material for messaging. After being up until about 3:00 a.m.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). Hard to use.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. 15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. So here is my current survey of the landscape. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby.