Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

I made a suggestion and got invited to Davos to discuss it. We often leave 90% of the planet out of these discussions. Universities and government labs encouraging their technology transfer offices to make social licenses of new technology. Tags: WEF HuffPo Davos Benetech IP GRI intellectual property Davos10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Change the subject: If you’re having a debate over the value of social media, you’re having the wrong discussion. The discussion should be about your organization’s goals – with web 2.0 Tags: guest blogging social media. being the means, not the end (see #2). Make it about the audience: A good way to depersonalize the web 2.0

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2010

I caught Brian Rowe 's Sharing Content, Terms of Service, and Copyright Best Practices session today at this year's NTC, which was a great primer for understanding Creative Commons licensing and included information on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and several other topics. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2010

I'd like to go over the layout of our donor partner and product pages and discuss licensing — both of which will be very helpful for nonprofits and libraries who may be requesting technology through TechSoup. In addition to those, most people may know us best for our software, hardware, and technology service donation programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Robert Rosenthal, of VolunteerMatch After the President’s call to serve during National Volunteer Week, the VolunteerMatch team held lengthy discussions about how the best way for us to help engage a new generation of volunteers inspired by the new President’s words. Tags: guest blogging volunteering. The sky is the limit.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. participation in online discussion groups. Tags: Consulting. You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. And remember the most important form of computer insurance--regular backups, preferably stored off-site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Huge shift in online collections beginning with Flickr Commons and CC licenses back around 2008 but it will take another decade for everyone to get onboard :) — Aron Ambrosiani (@AronAmbrosiani) December 2, 2019 And, when you make that kind of shift to shared ownership you're willing to share in an open, trusting manner, as Heidi mentioned.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2009

Software buying and licensing can be a daunting subject for the uninitiated, but Zac Mutrux , a San Francisco-based technology consultant with years of experience advising nonprofits, did a great job simplifying this subject during our latest TechSoup Talks! webinar , 5 Mistakes to Avoid when Acquiring Software. Look ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The licenses let you pick how to publish your work and grant others the right to reuse it. The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution. What does that mean?".

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

There's an interesting discussion happening on MetaFilter about how to use the Web with bandwidth limitations. The user who started the discussion has only mobile broadband access, so he was trying to keep his costs down. Photo: Cindy Seigle , CC license.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2010

Through the Salesforce.com Foundation product donation program, qualified 501(c)(3) organizations are able to receive a donation of 10 Salesforce CRM licenses. If you want to learn more, join us for this upcoming free webinar. Is Salesforce CRM Right for Your Organization? Thursday, March 25, 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m. Register today !

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) " You can read a case study about one nonprofit, and participate in the discussion to share your experiences and learn from others. Members are in bold. Beth's new blog! (I

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. Photo: Roger Burks ( Elliot Harmon , CC license ). Tags: Digital Divide Reporting Running Your Organization. We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

It was a fascinating discussion that touched both on many of the reasons why nonprofits are taking a look at data sharing and on why consequential data sharing can sometimes be challenging or unfeasible for nonprofits. This morning, NetSquared hosted a special unconference at NTC on open data. Tools Web Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

2) Curated Blog Posts and Resources that provide context to the discussion or resources mentioned. 3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year. Notes from Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

One important design concept for this project is creative commons licensing - which allowed the community to remix, reuse, or repurpose the content. This three part discussion series includes: Social Programs, Deep Engagement, and Getting To Scale. Tags: wearemedia.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

Photo: gcbb , CC license. . Discuss This in Our Forums. Share your insights in this Emerging Technologies forum discussion. Tags: Digital Divide Running Your Organization Software Using the Web and Internet Volunteers Web 2.0 What do you think of the Universal Translator plugin? Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The wiki is being released under a creative commons "by" license, the least restrictive license so that those who are training people from nonprofits are free to use or remix it for their needs. Use the module template as the framework for discussion and participation. So, what's my role in all of this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

For one thing, the line between internal and external discussions is thin. Anyone can participate or contribute to their Network strategy planning discussions which are also shared on the program's blog. Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site. Tags: transparency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A big reason for our three day meeting was for the four of us who are creating the “ Train the Trainers &# workshops for the in-country leadership teams in Beirut next month to meet and finalize our lesson plans and materials. As part of working in a transparent way, the curriculum is available on a wiki and creative commons license.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

and licensing models. You don't need to be or hire a lawyer, but you should understand the basic principles that underlie the commonly used open source licenses and what they mean to you if you're using, extending, or distributing that software. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

But, before we dive into the five features that you should seek in your next CME LMS, let’s discuss why you’re seeking a new solution to begin with. Create question banks to categorize and tag questions and then reuse them across assessments as applicable. The Biggest Challenges With Healthcare Learning Management Systems.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. Tags: nptech , FOSS , GPL You can find it online here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

All the great features of Facebook are available - writing on the Wall, uploading photos, and joining discussion groups. As I discussed in a recent post (see 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site ) stats are key to helping you improve your web site or in this case your Facebook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Openness - ????A It's messy. Her points: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. retag all the items tagged in del.icio.us (can a tag be trademarked?). looks like Josh Leo's blog is licensed by the least restrictive Creative Commons by license.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The museums cared about participants connecting with artworks and identifying them properly, whereas the Wikimedians cared more about participants sharing images under open legal licenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Inspired by Marnie's musings, Deborah Finn suggests that flickr is great source of highly quality nonprofit stock images, although suggests understanding how flickr creative common licenses work before plunking photos into a powerpoint. discussion." Technorati Tags: nptech cambodia. " Chris is spot on!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Today, we're releasing those tools to the nonprofit community under a Creative Commons attribution/noncommercial license. schedule a call or video meeting to review your engagement planning worksheets and discuss the steps you have envisioned for moving your users to action. Tags: engagement guest blogging n2y4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Photo from Photocappy in flickr - a cc "by" license. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Generic license ). Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. I think you’re some of the most brilliant, passionate, tireless, amazing humans I’ve ever met. Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

Many of us were digusted earlier this month to learn that once again Yahoo had cooperated with the Chinese authorities' request to turn over a citizen's private records, this time the discussion group threads of 35 year-old Li Zhi. Tags: yahoo , web2.0 , webdev It's certainly big news.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

In the related world of online image licensing, some museums have done studies of the affect of open digital photo distribution on their revenue from image licensing and have seen flat or positive effects from the actions, not negative ones (see this in-depth paper from the Powerhouse Museum).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

When your stakeholders can't chew on, discuss, and disseminate your data and messages, transparency can't happen. But they've also made sure that third-party content is licensed through Creative Commons. Tags: NPTech APIs data NTEN transparency Obama social media recovery.gov. You need to do that with your own data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 at 2:36 pm This is actually a topic I’ll be discussing at the NTC this year. So what’s the right strategy?

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