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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Everything is negotiable under license, except in practice, they don’t want to negotiate about access -- because there’s not enough money involved. Do I work on this $50 million licensing deal on a short deadline? Except, that’s the status quo. Because of money.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. The Bookshare team is excited because we can take these books and do all the accessibility work because they are under an open license! I think they are onto something.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Material should be posted under an unencumbered open content license, so that the content can be shared widely, especially in case of the Clearinghouse losing funding as some future date (so that the content can be freely moved to a new home) • Promotion: the Clearinghouse won’t matter if no one visits. Are they intended to inspire students?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. It's messy.

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where together with their partner, Net Impact , EDF embeds trained MBA students who identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and reduce emissions. Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site. Tags: transparency. This is an open and transparent network.

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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. The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons. to Change The World. site that has photos, etc.,

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