Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It is important to respect copyright laws. Wikipedia Public Domain Images – Wikipedia uses public domain images and has organized a collection with information on how the photos can be used and attributed. Here’s a round up of resources and advice. That’s not the definition of fair use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S, In response, many web sites are going on strike.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Make your potential vendor prove they are open to data imports and exports without having to purchase expensive additional APIs. I could go on and on but those are some key ones. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 11:38AM | by shannon Source: Wikipedia/Yotophoto.com When you send out a newsletter or email blast, you probably figure that your message will be seen by everyone you send it to, right? | Main | Is Going Local the Next Big Thing in Online Activism? That might not be the case. All rights reserved.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

wikipedia b. 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. Communication grid so people can talk to each other eg. drinkingliberally.com which is online and offline one-to-many.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Most of the things that I know about Wikipedia are from watching The Colbert Report. Here is a list of websites that were used as examples: (This list includes social tagging projects, visitor-curated exhibitions, copyright options, and more.) As I explained to Nina, I am a bit new to the idea of web 2.0, so keep this in mind.

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