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Congressional Testimony Statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.” We don’t create solutions from scratch: our innovation is adapting existing raw technology to meet the needs of the users in the social sector.

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. That’s pretty impressive.

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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

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As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

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Rowe has a law degree and worked for Creative Commons, though he now works at Freedom for IP , which calls itself "a grass roots organization dedicated to exploring the interaction of Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights.". He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07 Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

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They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Although San Francisco is currently in a housing crisis/real estate boom , it also has some of the strongest tenant laws in the country. Referral Services. LocalFreeWeb. Helpful Tools.