Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 14, 2011

You can pick music that helps people get into a reflective, active, or social mood--whatever you are trying to achieve. Licensing fees. and of course, who could forget Machine Project's charming "personal audio tour" in which a visitor plugs his/her headphones into a guy with an electric guitar who follows the visitor around?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. Symantec donated more than 432,000 licenses reaching more than 23,000 organizations in 29 countries last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

They want to enable social media activity, and that means providing both guidelines and resources. This is different from having a social media policy, which is typically all stick, no carrot. Marketing directors like Jeff don’t want to be traffic cops.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It also has an active website with more than 600,000 worldwide unique visitors per year. Frank says, "Most of our enterprise software is procured via TechSoup, which makes it affordable to license so many servers! Frank told me that the license he gets from TechSoup includes every option his museum needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. We also had some back end tools that provided details on the usage and activity; for example out of 359 accounts set up, 177 actually made it to Pathable and did some activity (that is 49%)– and we have graphs! Twitter was the biggest social media activity, absolutely no surprise.

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Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

People are going to steal your images no matter what your license scenario is. It has all kinds of audio and imagery to explore with a star at the helm. Legally, you have to be clear about what the rights status is on each image, so people know what’s legal and what isn’t. Avoid Flash for presenting content you want to spread.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Do you have a digital marketing process in place to manage your content, social, email, and engagement activities? Best of all, this 7 step marketing process is easy to learn and will free your time to focus on more value-adding activities. The best way to avoid this type of action is to ask for permission or purchase a license.

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