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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. If people starting taking audio versions of their Kindle books and distributing them, they would of course be violating copyright. Author Neil Gaiman put forth similar arguments in his Journal , which I appreciate.

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Some Great Citizen Journalism Links - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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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. What is citizen journalism? May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Some Great Citizen Journalism Links - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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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. What is citizen journalism? May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

ASU Lodestar Center

It was a great week for learning and connecting, with over 500 people attending the Phoenix Business Journals Fourth Annual Nonprofit Business Summit , which engaged nonprofit and business leaders in dialogue and educational sessions. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Survey Says: Nonprofits Fail to Track Marketing Impact - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Post a Comment | by Share Article in Marketing Research Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Nancy Schwartz , our friend from the Getting Attention blog , informed us about this just-released study that questioned 350 nonprofits about their marketing initiatives. Thanks Nancy!

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How do you define Creative Commons Attribution?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tool and the ideas behind the post post generated some good discussion, great questions, and additional blog posts that I'd like to explore further. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.

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