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2009 NTC Preview: Brian Rowe on Fair Use and User Generated Content

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Brian Rowe has put together a great panel at the 2009 NTC , " Fair Use, User Generated Content, Terms of Service and the DMCA Safe Harbor Act " I'll be the first to admit that intellectual property law sounds like it could replace the Tylenol PM in my travel bag. We use Creative Commons to license all of our reports, etc. .

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News from NTC ‘08

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower. Turns out it requires MS SQL Server ($240 + CALs from Techsoup, plus hardware). Which is fine.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve Struggling Youth

Tech Soup

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. " She requested the one user license version of QuickBooks and began using the product herself. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve At-Risk Youth

Tech Soup

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. " She requested the one user license version of QuickBooks and began using the product herself. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. ” IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.