Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. If you want to give nonprofits and other noncommercial ventures permission to republish your story, but don't want to allow a company to sell it for profit, there's a license for that.

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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. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

copyright law, it is sometimes legally OK to use images you find on the web and often not. It may be useful to know that as soon as something is created, it is covered under copyright rules. Copyright Office. If an image is marked copyright-free , you can use it without permission. Copyright Fair Use Doctrine.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Since we're a partner of Hadley's (our goal is to be the school library for their students), Hadley's president, Chuck Young, invited me and other Hadley supporters to accompany him and his staff on this celebratory trip. We started our visit in Hong Kong, visiting the three main nonprofits there serving the blind.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. Making an impact also requires giving your audience a story in a format they can consume. Twitter tweet chat tsdigs digital storytelling'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In this courageous guest post, Adrienne Berney, a Collections Care Trainer who works primarily with history museums, gives us an insider’s guide to these issues. Copyright infringements: A large portion of historical collections are in the public domain. North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 Followers of Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. We may even have some of our super cool swag left to give away. Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217. Washington DC, here we come! NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need. Reform Copyright.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

ASOL gives a write up and some pointers for holding your own blogger outreach event. "The writing is in his own voice, personal and authentic, and he's giving the patrons exactly what they crave: who won which competition, who just got engaged, where alums are singing, backstage snapshots. s Blog about? Launched in Jan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Bookshare is terrific, but it’s fundamentally a separate system where a specialized library becomes the primary source of books for its patrons.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten. Copyright © 2008. Your message should be easy to take in, easy to understand, and easy to repeat: clear, concise, and memorable. Grab your audience with something that commands attention â?? February 2007 (10).

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. “To have the documentation of the transformation gives you material for powerful stories.&#

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. “To have the documentation of the transformation gives you material for powerful stories.&#

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I figured I could give readers a more reasonable price ($25) if there wasn't a publisher to take a cut. Also, my whole career is predicated on a structure where I give away ideas on the blog and then people hire me for money.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

With over 100 panels to choose from on every topic under the sun, choosing the right ones that will give your nonprofit the best research, tools and resources in technology and social media is key. Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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Global Giving

JULY 12, 2017

Who has the copyright to the footage? Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Make sure to agree on the number of revisions and how long the filmmaker has to implement your revisions. Depending on the project and subject matter, this can be shared by the filmmaker and the nonprofit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Nonprofits, for example, may also create a list of the best online library resources for their niche. Gift guides are usually best served a few weeks before a major gift-giving event like Christmas or Mother’s Day. If it's unique and useful, other sites in the niche will want to link to it because it brings value to their visitors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. Vine :: vine.co. Present.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

With only 36 charities selected per year, most nonprofits will not be able to participate but its a clever and powerful idea that could be easily duplicated by employee giving programs and socially responsible businesses. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. Easelly :: easel.ly. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising. Democracy in Action give us a great list of " Six Outside the Stocking Ideas for Online Fundraising." " Looks like MySpace is also getting sued for copyright violation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

I feel quite strongly about this because of how well a balanced copyright law can work, and does work, right here in the United States. To give you an idea of the poison pills being advocated for by the MPAA, publishers, and now the U.S. Congress to gut our model copyright exception. That''s what the MPAA calls "balance?"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Hopefully, it will give you a flavor of why this travel is worth it to me and Benetech! Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. Student privacy.

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