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Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is Here!

Amy Sample Ward

Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the Web sites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Submissions period begins on February 23, 2009, at 11 am PST, and runs through April 3, 2009, at 3 pm PST. How To Participate.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

"As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license. Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009.

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

NTEN

How much of the New York Times technology blog can you quote on your own site? We use Creative Commons to license all of our reports, etc. . The world of technology is changing so quickly, the laws that govern intellectual property can barely keep up. There's more content than ever before -- and more confusion about how we can use it.

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Open source your Open Social Apps?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The salient quote: Why not roll your own social network, include the OpenSocial API, and have applications, groups, widgets and portals to your site in any number of the “OpenSocial” platforms? Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Anyone interested?

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News from NTC ‘08

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Their web site makes no mention of what server technology is used/required for MPower. But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. I’m looking forward to having time to digest all that has happened here. { Oh, and Crystal Reports Application Server. Which is fine.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Thanks for a great site!! MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. And since it ties into Drupal or Joomla you get a complete frontend / backend system. ??

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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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