Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Byte Technology

MAY 27, 2016

Sometimes, with custom site designs that aren’t pulled from existing templates, the designer has the right to copyright said design, which means you may be unable to take it to another designer should you choose and would have to start over from scratch if you decided to make a move. • The problem with this relationship?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Are you shocked to find out that uploading photos is the number one activity on Facebook, or that Pinterest is the number one growing social platform these days? Pay attention to copyright - stealing content is not okay, so make sure you have the proper licensing and copyright to share your post. You shouldn't be.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). You can read much more about this in Jim Fruchterman’s blog post, “Upholding the Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). Calibre : a cross-platform suite of tools for ebook management, conversion, etc. that are standard for eBooks.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Facebook is a platform — meaning, you can develop your own applications on top of their functionality. YouTube is now a platform. This could prove highly disruptive to other video-hosting platforms such as Brightcove, Maven Networks (now part of Yahoo), and Move Networks. It is offering video-hosting for free.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

copyright law. Leveraging the strong community of Bookshare volunteers, we are building a crowd-sourced platform for creating affordable, high-quality image descriptions and tactile graphics in accessible textbooks. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

ArtHub AI Library : A collection of AI-generated art prompts and a platform for artists to showcase their AI-generated artwork. Ensure that the images you create do not infringe on copyrights, promote harmful content, or misrepresent your organization.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Technology. Do they have expertise in a particular technology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at a few examples: Major Gifts Officer: A new platform called First Draft developed by Gravyty uses AI to identify and draft emails to prospects in an organization’s database. Robot lawyers probably won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or write elegant legal briefs just yet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. YouTube currently has just two primary copyright types: Conventional copyright, in which the creator has full rights. Vimeo has a section for Creative Commons-copyrighted videos.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?) You can log in using OpenID.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2018

Remember, it has been shown that, “[w]hen stakeholders are engaged in social media platforms, they may be more likely to engage with the organization in other ways,” according to an article by Carboni and Maxwell. Organizations need to build and strengthen relationships with their followers through dialogue and interactions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Paris, France & Manchester, United Kingdom: Camilla Burg of Wiser.org , an online platform to connect those working on sustainability issues, and Steven Flower of Manchester NetSquared. The chat stressed the importance of communicating about privacy and copyright for those concerned about participating in digital storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

I can't share the specifics because of copyright issues, but it was informative to hear the lawyer's perspective and it has prompted some important insights for me. we do have information and other policies that cover things like personal use of the internet, phone etiquette, crimes against humanity, copyright, bad attitude, and ugly pants.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

copyright law. With Bookshare, we knew that a web-based platform would enable us to get the product to scale and into the hands of hundreds of thousands of users today. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. As a result, we quickly became the world’s largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? Technology. Do they have expertise in a particular technology?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

There's so much to talk about here with Amazon, so let me focus on just a few key points: The Closed Platform problem. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. The Closed Platform problem. Unfortunately, when they turn it off on the Kindle, they are turning it off for everybody including people with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

Lucy Chilli's Copyright and Commons Publishing Game. The cards would include: creative commons license cards (source material and published material), publishing tools/platforms, and types of publishing content/projects. Next, we'd break into 3 small groups and each group would be given a pack of cards. Each group would be asked to: 1.

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See3

JANUARY 10, 2008

We are moderating the panel on short-shorts and new platforms. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. Here’s the info on the conference. 7-8 at American University.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. . $5-$30 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2007

Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. Brett Gaylor is a amazing! His newest project is Open Source Cinema.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. Respect copyright laws by quoting and linking to the full text and only use images that you have permission to use (i.e.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch.

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See3

JANUARY 7, 2008

Danny “plans to leverage the widespread appeal anticipated for this project with an innovative, multi-platform community engagement campaign designed to build audiences before the broadcast and extend the reach of the series into communities across the nation.&# One of the coolest things will be the outreach and engagement pieces.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big. First a little background. Facebook is the second big social networking site behind MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The last part, a community publishing platform, is something we are working on with the Connexions Project and a brief video about it is here. Now, if we can’t publish a book in Assamese, but a teacher in Assam wants to do so, she doesn’t have to worry about copyright infringement. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

The study also discusses how nonprofits continue to question whether it’s better to build a community on a popular social networking platform like Facebook, or to build their own in-house social network. So far, so good, as a fair amount of conversations have started on both platforms. All rights reserved.

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See3

MARCH 17, 2008

You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

The study presents data from January 2006 through December 2007, covering 21 major nonprofit organizations that use four different major CMS platforms. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Reform Copyright. That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups.

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See3

JANUARY 15, 2008

Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to submit their videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV , the video sharing platform for nonprofits. The grand prize winner will be announced at NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in New Orleans on March 21.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

Receive monthly updates 1 Comment | by Share Article in Online Marketing , Social Networking , Technology Reader Comments (1) Twitter, like all other social media platforms, only works if you already have a built in audience or you do the work to promote your tweets to your existing audience. Good article, Allyson. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

Main | Advocacy Online Unveils Social Networking Platform in Toronto » Thursday Jun 11 2009 Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:58AM | by Allyson Kapin Your nonprofit spends time and money growing your online list. June 30, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

So far people have contributed everything from a Firefox extension that recommends social actions as you browse the web, to a Wordpress module that recommends social actions based on the content of a post, to a service that makes it super easy for companies to find, sponsor, and showcase charitable actions from various platforms at once.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

So far people have contributed everything from a Firefox extension that recommends social actions as you browse the web, to a Wordpress module that recommends social actions based on the content of a post, to a service that makes it super easy for companies to find, sponsor, and showcase charitable actions from various platforms at once.

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