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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. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. Prior to the conference, Enrique Piracés and I authored a Huffington Post op-ed on human rights and the duty to protect sensitive data and our maxim: first, do no harm.

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Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

What does all of this data mean for nonprofits? May 14, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski "the total dollars raised online increased by only 26%" Id say an increase of total dollars raised of 26% year over year is huge. May 14, 2009 | Eric Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Continue to embrace low dollar donors.

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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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Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

I’ve given approximately 2,900 hours of work for America since 2009. Today, I am about two-thirds of the way through my second term of national service in Public Allies Arizona and AmeriCorps. I can’t tell you what an honor it has been to serve my country. Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunte.