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Pew Internet and American Life Project: Future of the Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has issued its annual forecast of “ The Future of the Internet.” It offers predictions for the Internet in 2020. Here's the high points: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020.

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The Iron Cage of Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

strengthens the hold of copyright in our everyday life.??? The concept and mechanisms of licensing are introduced to people who would not previously consider copyrighting their works, and thus possibly commodify their creations. iron cage of copyright??? Creative Commons, writes Elkin-Koren, ???may What this ???sloppiness???

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Nonprofits Blaze Virtual Trails in Second Life Mixed Reality Lounge

Tech Soup

Copyright © 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. The reason was because many participants in the room were participating from both Second Life and the room in San Jose, and they are doing so, in avatar form. Tags: Accessible Technology E-Learning Running Your Organization Services Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The third movement is the effort to make copyright exceptions a global norm , thus enabling easy import and export of accessible materials. thanks to our domestic copyright exception. Unfortunately, we can’t export these books, as other countries have copyright laws that we wouldn’t violate.

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Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. (IDI) million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Big Data and the Internet of Things. MIT Technology Review declared 2013 the year of the Internet of Things. Green Technology.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? Why should nonprofit organizations pay attention to copyright or your organization's goals? They see copyright law as a way to control the way their message is distributed. In fact, copyright is not necessary to accomplish that end.