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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. So, the publishers weren’t against all licensing.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them! It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture.

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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

DNL OmniMedia

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. For instance, one CRM system may be a better fit for small organizations while another is built for enterprise-level needs.

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How The Nature Conservancy’s Work in the Cumberland Forest Supports Jobs & Climate Mitigation

Saleforce Nonprofit

And while it is not a park, the project also offers public access to 126,000 acres for hiking, hunting, and trail riding, with additional acreage accessible through private licenses. In fact, the Cumberland Forest Project includes 700 miles of headwater streams that feed watersheds across nine counties in three states.

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Great reads from around the web on May 16th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license.

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How do you define Creative Commons Attribution?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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