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Nonprofits, Get Your License to Design!

Tech Soup

Get your design driver's license by taking a few of TechSoup's online design courses. evaluate visual content using design standards and best practices. Get your design license. Design ain't easy, or we'd all be making Clio award-winning designs in our sleep. understand and identify brand book elements.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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22 Membership Benefits Your Nonprofit Can Offer

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Access to Exclusive Content One of the primary benefits of joining a membership-based organization is gaining access to exclusive content. If you’re looking for a good way to start offering exclusive content, try a members-only newsletter.

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Tech Awards: An Annual Showcase of Challenges and Hope

Tech Soup

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Rickshaw Bank provides a lease-to-own model for their redesigned rickshaws, and “back-end support” like insurance and licensing.

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although the Clearinghouse and Awards programs could be helpful to the cause of greater access for people with disabilities, I don’t think they truly take on the biggest opportunity for change. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards. Awards programs are around providing incentives to encourage certain kinds of behaviors.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference. My biggest concern about OERs has been that few people developing them have been measuring the impact: they celebrate the creation of the open content textbook or coursework, but don't collect the information on whether anybody is using them.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Everything is negotiable under license, except in practice, they don’t want to negotiate about access -- because there’s not enough money involved. Do I work on this $50 million licensing deal on a short deadline? Except, that’s the status quo. Because of money.

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