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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Disaster Preparedness and Relief Survey: Win an Amazon Gift Card!

Tech Soup

If you have ten minutes to spare, please take our Emergency Preparedness Survey for Nonprofits and Public Libraries. Please forward this survey to your colleagues at nonprofits, NGOs, or libraries. Photo: Random McRandomhead , CC license. We're overhauling the manual and toolkit, and we need your help!

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

The grand prize will be a $500 Amazon gift certificate, with five honorable mentions receiving $100 gift certificates. The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) Now is the time to send in your nonprofit's story!

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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