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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia).

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Image Name: Author / License. Mukono, Uganda: First Term Mobile Solar Computer Training Meetup for Kikandwa Primary School. Asia and Pacific Rim. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Wellington, New Zealand: Learn to Sketch Your Ideas. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Toronto, Ontario: How to Develop and Deliver an Effective Pitch. Seattle, Washington. HR Essentials for the Accidental HR Manager. 501 Connects. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix: QuickBooks Made Easy.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. How to find them? milllion blogs.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

Retraining staff to be translators and hosts instead of experts and authorities is both technologically and philosophically tricky (and necessary). If museum and library content is licensed, not owned, how can we work within those licenses to allow visitors to use and remix to their heart’s content?

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