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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that’s why it’s critical that all those young geeks have the best, geekiest time that ever they had because happy, fulfilled Campuseros translates into positive brand identification for Movistar, Microsoft, The Mexican government, Ibm, HP, Asus, Nokia, Motorola, Nec, Opera, Noiselab, Volaris, Cisco, Oracle, Zte.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Seattle, Washington: Governance Matters: Is Policy Governance for Your Organization? The link need to be like so: Africa.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Grantmakers

Connection Cafe

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. Reflection: Do your foundation’s governing documents or bylaws allow you to change or adjust funding strategy?

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Networks in an International Context. His slides and my notes and reflections follow. 1) Everybody is People.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. Indeed, software released as open-source is usually governed by a strict license agreement limiting, as all software licenses do, how the product may be distributed. You can find it online here.