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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

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Manager of Knowledge Resources ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday ! And on April 29-30, nonprofit scholars came together at the 8th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference to share current research and discuss methodological developments in the field. Take this quiz to test your knowledge. Nice quiz! I got an 8!

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? I was so inspired by this story that I started looking into the rational for our intellectual property system, and found that it is centuries out of date, and heavily crafted by drug companies and Hollywood. Get tech saavy. The Seattle Ignite was amazing!

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards

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The grand prize winner will be announced at NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans on March 21. Last year’s winner, Avaaz “Stop the Clash of Civilizations” received a standing ovation when played at the conference. NTEN facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within the nonprofit community.

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Google Announces Project 10^100 for World-Changing Ideas - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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My idea deals with creating a more incentive-driven health system. link] And [link] October 22, 2008 | Rajja [link] Check this out October 30, 2008 | Joe Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The group is enthusiastically engaged with this idea all year long and how to implement it. I have submitted my idea. Video is very fast.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Will there be conferences for Orkut experts to exchange best practices? In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants.