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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture. The first lecture I heard as a freshman at Caltech was delivered by Feynman on the topic of liquid helium three, and I was certain he did understand the topic! Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. The biggest turnout was one thousand students for my lecture to engineering and business students.

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Interview: Colin Rhinesmith, CCTV Cambridge

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University. Creative Commons licensed training materials would be particularly beneficial.

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Best of the Decade for Museums

Museum 2.0

Huge shift in online collections beginning with Flickr Commons and CC licenses back around 2008 but it will take another decade for everyone to get onboard :) — Aron Ambrosiani (@AronAmbrosiani) December 2, 2019 And, when you make that kind of shift to shared ownership you're willing to share in an open, trusting manner, as Heidi mentioned.

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Event formats — for example, a lecture, a panel, a world cafe, or speed dating, and how keep them effective and manageable. Covina, California: Monetization of Content.

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What Does a NetSquared Event Look Like?

Tech Soup

Victoria, British Columbia: How to Choose a Content Management System for Your New Website. Melbourne, Australia: Content Marketing for NFPs: Get Results! IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Instead of words, let me try a few pictures that will illustrate our community. Thursday, April 16, 2015.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Read the post from Brian Lamb. blame the internet! :-).