ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

I have previously written about the top issues addressed by the Treaty , but to recap, the Treaty is a wonderful instrument because it requires exceptions for people who are blind or have other print disabilities in national copyright laws. HathiTrust.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500. develop appropriate and relevant business models. develop appropriate and relevant business models. Gartner's five laws for exploring virtual worlds at the enterprise level. Fourth Law: Understand and contain the downside. second life, ???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Big Data and the Internet of Things. Big picure time. MyDigitalBridge.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. As organizations with a stake in the future of communications, we must ensure that the commissioners hear our call for fast, affordable, ubiquitous, and open Internet access. We should look to other models. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

TechSoup has long sent our old phones to the 911 Cell Phone Bank , a nonprofit that provides emergency cell phones and funds to meet the unexpected and urgent needs of law enforcement and disaster victims. Here's his insight: " Like anything, the cell phone donation/recycling model is driven by economics. Phones 4 Charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. How did you get interested in copyright laws and their impact on human rights? They see copyright law as a way to control the way their message is distributed. He is also a professor at Stanford Law School.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

All models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus and also with system restore capabilities. One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S. How Green Is RCI? low-income household with children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens There is truth to this argument - but only as long as we look at the Creative Commons licensing model as an abstract design. Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit ???,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Meta’s advertising revenue model is failing and their future is unpredictable. 9) Stay current on online privacy law. The law is finally starting to catch up with the internet and privacy rights are a legal trend that nonprofits cannot afford to ignore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2006

One of the questions my father-in-law has begin to ask, "What's next?" So, last week kept my Internet search skills honed by trying to find recorder teachers in his area of Arizona. As it turned out, there are no recorder teachers in my father-in-law's neck of the woods in Arizona.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The idea, grand in scope, was to present models and technology that can assist organizations shift internal cultures to make diversity of all types the norm. While ideally anti-discrimination laws would prevent much of this, proving discrimination in most cases is nearly impossible. Pretty big and worthwhile stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. The subject must be modeled using complex data and formulae. Come on, get real already.

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See3

JANUARY 30, 2008

I tried to give them a framework in which to think about this kind of change and we discussed different models to explore and teach this subject. In philanthropy, for example, the people-to-people connectivity of a Kiva is not a new concept, but the internet makes it possible on a new scale. It’s fantastic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos. Also announced 2.0

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

Attackers often use information gleaned from the internet to specifically target victims. This means that a hacker can intercept every piece of information you are sending out on the internet: emails, credit card information, credentials—you name it, they can get it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. The sharing or peer-to-peer economy is a relatively new Internet trend that arose out of the Great Recession. Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Much of what you read on my Blog may not be new to you, but hopefully, it’ll serve as a good reminder of things to consider when you lead your next employee, team or group.I’m GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

And most of its practices exist thanks to the Internet. Your existing fundraising efforts can be structured into a model that attracts donors. See this post by a law firm , and this post by the National Council of Nonprofits for more info on staying within the limitations of the IRS. Step 3: Use Your Juju.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Or, better yet, use Internet faxing. This is particularly important, considering the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. Fax Machines : Avoid a cover page when possible and youll save paper on both ends. Paper : Recycle and use only recycled paper. Youll save on equipment and meter maintenance.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Context for the event from Rory Cellan-Jones: Prevailing ethos of the web has been libertarian, optimistic about the potential of the internet to be a medium of free expression and break down barriers. Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

This is the fourth in our series of "shovel-ready" internet projects -- Forum One's take on how to spend the the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)" popularly known as "the stimulus package.". and embrace innovative new learning models" (ED.gov). " Well, then, this one isn't business, it's personal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are two models of growth. Britt: You've used entrepreneurial models in combination with nonprofits, with Global Exchange, and now the Global Citizen Center. Some people are saying that the nonprofit model is fading out, and that we need more social entrepreneurship. How do we grow the organization?

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we need a set of companies that see this not simply as a compliance issue—that is, “Are we following the law?”—but, Can you point to any examples that kind of give you some hope or optimism, or that we can point to to say, you know, this could be a model for how we might move forward in a more responsible manner?

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