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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

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To facilitate the use of that data, the city hosted a contest to motivate the development community to make use of more than 100 types of datasets it had released — everything from aerial photographs and business licenses to parking meter information, liquor license applications, and street-sweeping routes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest. license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 1:19 pm ToTehMoon Blog Part » OpenOffice.org Big Winner in SourceForge Contest 07.29.08 And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). at 7:18 pm { 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 jack 06.24.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. There are six different flavors of Creative Commons licensings that have various degrees of restrictions on how people may use your work.

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