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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, this is an in-depth report on the two days I just spent at the end of last week in Geneva. The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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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. Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. There are remedies.

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So You Think You Can Blog? Guidelines For New Bloggers

Care2

Explain how you'll be evaluating your success and how often you will be sending them analytics reports. What feedback are you going to be providing bloggers in the organization with that will help them improve and understand what's working? Recognize the good work of competitors and peer organizations. You gotta give to get.

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With Liberty, and Information, For All?

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Fayster Now that the stimulus package -- or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, if you're keeping score at home -- has been signed into law , the work of making it all happen begins. I know that as good, smart people working at good, smart organizations, we believe in the power of transparency. You can do it, too!

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