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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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Learning Resources for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. Nearly everything we have listed above is free, plus all of the content on TechSoup is Creative Commons – licensed. Get more out of Google by using its advanced search techniques. Check out this handy search primer for Bing. For TechSoup resources , see our recent blog post.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

, thanks to our Creative Commons license. 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. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. What Is Creative Commons?

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia).

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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. " I would have done a remix of this photo with that line as a speech bubble using one of the flickr remix tools, but the best photo of Weinberger in flickr was not licensed with a Creative Commons by license, but all rights reserved.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

plus $2 per user license. It is currently available for nonprofits and libraries at an admin fee of $265 plus $9 per user license. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. advantage of using MS Communicator is that you can see who is on your. computer network and you can get a hold of them in a variety of ways.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models.