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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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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. But hopefully that will change. { You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. So I’m on identi.ca now ( follow pearlbear ). you can have private groups.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Change the Debate in 2008

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Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment University Update – YouTube – Change the Debate in 2008 [.] 1 Aug 2007 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Sign the petition here.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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Live from Convio Summit 2007 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Haji could not attend the event in person because his wife just gave birth to their second child, and he said he was going to be busy changing diapers. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Haji thanked GetActive’s clients, staff (“such a talented, committed team”) and partners. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it. Uck.They still don’t get it.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Framework for Producing Transformative Change Two key concepts from the book really stuck with me. The first is their core concept of equilibrium change.

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