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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. These were the days when people had just one PC at home. And, the U.S.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. plus $2 per user license. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

Busia, Kenya: Beyond Today’s Internet Experiencing: Smart Future Conference Kenya. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Image Name: Author / License. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Mukono, Uganda: First Term Mobile Solar Computer Training Meetup for Kikandwa Primary School. Thursday, March 26, 2015.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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