Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it! Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Accessibility of digital media has been repeatedly and systematically denied because of digital measures to “protect” content. Provisions designed to handle copyrighted materials could conflict with fundamental exceptions in copyright law like fair use of copyrighted works and the Chafee Amendment.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2010

And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? Tags: roundup bigsociety bookmarks conference copyright facebook irl list millennials nonprofits photography postalicious privacy resources sharing slacktivism socialchange socialmedia sxsw virtualworlds.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. A check list to work through with your legal counsel: 1.)

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If They provide tools that let everyone have a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Why didn't they link to the original context?

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

Meanwhile too many of our people continue to be unemployed, too few can even earn enough to pay taxes, our medical entitlements continue to grow through the roof, we are spending considerably more than we take in, we have no long-term economic strategy-let alone a tax policy to enable it. Copyright © 2014. Free at last!

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

Meanwhile too many of our people continue to be unemployed, too few can even earn enough to pay taxes, our medical entitlements continue to grow through the roof, we are spending considerably more than we take in, we have no long-term economic strategy-let alone a tax policy to enable it. Copyright © 2013. Free at last!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some folks call newly developed knowledge "intellectual property," but this obscures the fact that we don't treat ideas and content the same way as we treat a house or land. If you give all knowledge away freely, you'll discourage people and companies from investing in creating valuable technology and content.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

It’s about the content and how it’s written—and sadly it’s usually the piece of a website that gets the least amount of attention. Remember, content is still king. Here’s a list of 10 best practices you can follow when working on your site content. What are your best web content tips?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Media release forms are (typically) used in formal situations—promotional shoots, program recordings—in which the museum, not the user, dictates the circumstances and use of the content. But if we’re moving towards more integration of user content in museums, ownership can’t be swept under the rug. The interactive “owns” the content.

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See3

MAY 28, 2007

One way to get people to create content for you is through contests. In the nonprofit world we also have contests and at See3 we have become “the contest people&# helping organizations conceive of and execute user generated content contests. The article is a nice look into the challenges of user generated content contests.

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See3

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

Are you serving as a proofreader, or will you also be making content suggestions? What types of comments will you consider over the line and what kind of content would you consider deleting? Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e. Over to you.

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See3

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

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. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

phenomena of portable content and user generated content is just the transition to something deeper. 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.

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See3

MAY 9, 2007

and losing control of content. How do we take advantage of user-generated content and user-controlled forums such as MySpace and YouTube without totally losing control of our brand? All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us It’s the magic question.

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See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Video is the most compelling content online. Video is the most popular content online. 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. That’s HUGE.

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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. Keep in mind that enforcing limited-access policies requires significant staff time too, along with possible legal fees.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

I have been writing a long time about how advertising is changing, how you the fundraiser or the marketer must adopt the new paradigm that entertains, shows instead of tells, and meets people in their communities with content that interests them — and allows them to contribute to the conversation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The Bookshare library is made possible by a copyright exception: Section 121 of the United States Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment. Students outside the United States are not covered by this national copyright exception, because every country has its own copyright law.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2007

It has the petition right on the home page, a URL that’s easy to remember and fits the content, the video as the center of attention right next to the form, only a few links on the page, clear and concise content, a push to get bloggers like me to host the video to get more views, and a coordinated strategy with multiple organizations.

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See3

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

On the IdeaDrivenMarketing.com blog there is a post about a social networking/content sites for Baby Boomers called Eons.com. 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.

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Care2

MARCH 15, 2009

By giving each page in your website a unique, useful description of the page content, you make it easier for a user to decide whether or not to click through. I say "usually" because Google, for instance, may choose to show another piece of content that its algorithm thinks is more relevant. Use heading tags in your content.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

So while we don’t yet have all the metrics we need to show that video will actually improve/increase fundraising online, we know that this is the content people are gravitating towards. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Demonstrated expertise with Web publishing technologies (social networking tools, content management systems, image optimization, message boards and forums, etc.). All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

Many Content Management Systems can automate this process, keeping the sitemap up to date and informing search engines of the changes. Even if you dont have a Content Management System, you can still easily create a sitemap through any number of online generators. May 19, 2010 | Brenda Johnson Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2008

> “The Arbitrage Conspiracy Report” is our first piece of hard hitting Freeline content. Check It Out Here: [link] It’ll knock your list’s socks off and keep them watching theirinbox for your next email… December 8, 2008 | Tony Camero Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 2007

If you enjoy frogloops content, we highly recommend joining Care2 and putting some of our words into action to make a difference! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. You can read all about the strides weve made since 7 million here on our official press release.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites. As you can imagine, a metric like average time on site is less helpful for a donation site than it is for a content-based one. Is it to gather donations or content? January 12, 2009 | Altan Khendup Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

JANUARY 16, 2008

All answers are 100% confidential and will greatly influence the content youll see on frogloop in 2008. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. Its just nine multiple choice and two one-liners (about three minutes) that are so easy even this chicken got an A. All rights reserved.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was looking for ways to be accessible to our constituents, grow our audience, and virally promote our content, so Twitter seemed like the way to go. Our Executive Director, Jeff Blodgett ( @jeffblodgett ), is on Twitter, but I still am working on showing him of some of the benefits beyond just broadcasting links to our content.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2007

Amy Gahran - a conversational media consultant, content strategist, and freelance writer/editor - showed us some really cool sites about the exciting, ever-developing world of citizen journalism that we wanted to share with you, our Frog Loop readers. May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com I think it went really well!!

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

So far people have contributed everything from a Firefox extension that recommends social actions as you browse the web, to a Wordpress module that recommends social actions based on the content of a post, to a service that makes it super easy for companies to find, sponsor, and showcase charitable actions from various platforms at once.

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