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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Image Name: Author / License. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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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. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and the Pacific Rim. 501 Connects.

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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. 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. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some images are in the public domain and some of licensed through creative commons which can be used as long as you give proper attribution. Flickr Creative Commons – Flickr is a photo site but it offers creative commons licensing and you can use it combined with keyword searches to find an image. These should get you started.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

The charity pricing on it is is free for up to ten licenses with as much as a 75% discount per seat above that. The centerpiece of the philanthropic project is a cloud networking solution that’s free (forever) to 501(c)(3) organizations that need ten licenses or fewer. Larger nonprofits can get additional licenses at half off.

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