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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As someone who travels roughly half the time, it’s important to provide some insight into what’s going on, especially since these meetings often influence where Benetech goes with our efforts. In particular, they wanted the group to endorse that a copyright exception under Marrakesh exclude works that are commercially available.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. inappropriate language, pornography, and other questionable influences. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. Lost productivity. From lost productivity.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

And who may be able to influence those actors in their decision-making? Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. January 2007 (12).

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. Tuesday, March 17th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Room 10 March 13, 2009 | Allyson Kapin Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Whitehouse.gov 2.0: Panel presentation followed by brainstorming session.