Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. I wrote a post at the time with the detailed suggestions from the expert group about the text of the draft. So, in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. These three movements all bode well for improved access to books and other content, but there remain challenges before we can fully realize the vision of equality of access to information.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

Of course, Mexico might well beat both the USA and Canada, but Mexico is in the Latin America group at WBU. We’re doing a ton of work with partners in India , the first country to ratify it, to allow people in India to take full advantage of India’s now-favorable copyright environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

via Steve Elbows from the Video Bloggers Community: Signed a deal that involves 3 youtube 'channels' of BBC content, one of which. Signs of a progressive attitude towards copyrighted stuff too: "Mr Highfield said the BBC would not be hunting down all BBC-copyrighted clips already. "We don't want to.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2011

Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services. Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The signals from a few European countries on its likely content have not been encouraging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

This year, I'm staying in on for Penguin Day and am facilitating sesion on Open Content and Nonprofits. While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. Here's the description.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. This is one reason why our Human Rights Field Team is supporting LGBTI rights groups from the Caribbean to the African regions with targeted Martus and capacity building trainings. But what about everybody else?

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Perhaps both groups might each donate $2 million for programs to prevent bullying in our schools. Copyright © 2014. Imagine the impact if we the people simply lived America''s creed. Free at last! Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Perhaps both groups might each donate $2 million for programs to prevent bullying in our schools. Copyright © 2013. Imagine the impact if we the people simply lived America''s creed. Free at last! Stan Stahl, Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

NOTE : Your group or organization's contact person must be an authorized representative of your group who has all right, power, and authority to bind the group to these Official Rules for purposes of this Challenge. (b) (a) Submission Form. Complete the challenge submission form with all required information. Eligibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Click To Play I've been exploring about how a teacher or parent might seek out video blog content that is educational for kids not yet ready to mix their own. So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. Later, I went and looked over at blip.tv

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Copyright infringements: A large portion of historical collections are in the public domain. North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Benetech, is a leading nonprofit organization based in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

So a bunch of groups get together and want to get people engaged. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. OK, quiz time. What’s the best way to do that? Yes, video.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It started with a request from a group of New York Wikimedians to the Brooklyn Museum. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. Some images were disqualified for copyright reasons, others because they could not be identified.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. The content is focused on the professional area of expertise. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals. Blog helps deepened expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. The classic technical glitch for me was doing a presentation at the Cloisters in NYC for a group of arts education teachers. That only works with small groups on the phone, fewer than 12 or 15 people, not 100. Full of copyright issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

60) Search « 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards | Main | 10 Best Web Content Practices » Friday Feb 27 2009 Tweet Locally, Reach Broadly Friday, February 27, 2009 at 06:43PM | by Daniel Bennett Daniel Bennett To Tweet or not to Tweet is not the question. But, nonetheless, first Tweet locally and then syndicate broadly.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

60) Search « New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted | Main | Social Actions: How to Pitch Yourself in Two Minutes » Wednesday Jun 11 2008 Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 11:52AM | by Hatef Yamini Campaigning online. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

The nights theme was Pimp My Nonprofit as the wonderful ladies from CODEPINK shared their website with the group. Group members offered helpful suggestions for the team on ways to improve their site. Move the site search up to the top right of the page, freeing up your main content area. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

MAY 9, 2008

Excell Foodservice Dealer Network, a national group of industry vendors and dealers, created the foundation. May 14, 2008 | Kivi Miller Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The Foundation’s board reviews the nominations and utilizes Excell membership as partners in securing, shipping and installing the equipment. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2008

Excell Foodservice Dealer Network, a national group of industry vendors and dealers, created the foundation. May 14, 2008 | Kivi Miller Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The Foundation’s board reviews the nominations and utilizes Excell membership as partners in securing, shipping and installing the equipment. All rights reserved.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Be sure and check out how groups like NARAL and the Sierra Club have used social networking to encourage donations and strengthen community.

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Social Media Difference Advocacy Case Study 28

Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

It will be a powerful grassroots greening machine; with bloggers, writers, and volunteers all contributing to local greening efforts; and held together by the added sticky-ness of good dynamic content, great search engine optimization, and of course that Web 2.0 spheres -- driving your organizations content deep into the blogosphere.

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Blogger Social Media Site Advocacy 28

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

Focus on specifics in your communication from content, segmentation, personalization of appeals, and testing each of these elements including subject lines, frequency, and timing. Dave Steadman Hamilton College March 26, 2009 | Dave Steadman Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Keep up the great work on FrogLoop! All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Benetech, is a leading nonprofit organization based in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

She has also established a policy working group that consists of a mix of social media experts and lawyers. That’s why it is good to have an going relationship and a policy group. She also observes that addressing one issue is like “Whack a Mole” but others pop up. Being proactive is also important.

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Care2

APRIL 2, 2008

Instead of writing a long list, take time to identify your target group beforehand and think of terms that will appeal directly to them. Separate ad groups: Split up your keyword buys into different categories. Take advantage of single ad groups: Keep everything organized by creating containers to hold related ad groups.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Upworthy is a content filtering tool that features the most read, shared, and buzz-worthy content on the Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Group/as :: group.as. Group/as is a user-submitted grouping tool for Google+ Pages. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. If you would be genuinely interested in your target group, you would know of ways to reach out to them. January 27, 2010 | Denver SEO Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

And, that''s not even mentioning that fact that the MPAA has already gotten their content excluded from the Treaty years ago. I feel quite strongly about this because of how well a balanced copyright law can work, and does work, right here in the United States. Congress to gut our model copyright exception. Which leads to #3.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

For years, our extraordinary cohort of dedicated volunteer scanners has provided Bookshare with most of its new content. This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Nonprofits can start a Facebook Group, Cause Page to raise a bit of money, or Fan Page to post recent news, videos, photos, events, launch contests, and talk to your members via discussion boards. Id also like to add the importance of being Googleable - having a Web site with fresh content that users (and, therefore, search engines) like.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Rather, the focus of the conversations was philosophical: What are the consequences of user-generated content? It was clear that this group of senior museum professionals was not ready for the implications of user-generated content invading the establishments that they had worked so hard to build. It was a non-issue. in museums?

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