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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse. Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. guarding business interests and data theft. The users’ responsibilities to protect their own data (as well the. organization’s data if the user is an employee) when accessing or while.

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Why Social Media Can Suck

Care2

And while a gazillion blogs ranging from Mashable to news networks like CNN are writing about how awesome social media is as a marketing vehicle and social connector (and yes there are some great case studies), are people paying the price by giving up their personal data without blinking an eye? Here’s why.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. Big Data and the Internet of Things. Data, we are told, is indeed becoming the new oil. There are remedies. Smartwatches.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Better Data Visualization Using Excel: Hands-on Workshop. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Reform Copyright. Oxford, United Kingdom: The Open Data Event. Monday, November 7, 2016. Kampala, Uganda.