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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

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In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. it refers to the things you can do with an image without permission.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

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I've found that my generation has a habit of teaching ourselves new technologies, and I am no exception. I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. For teaching and learning. Flickr Farm.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

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I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The Institute for Development Studies , a nonprofit that does international development research, teaching and communications, created this YouTube video.

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