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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries! ) In some models, it's not sharing that's taking place at all; it's renting a commodity owned by the community, rather than owned by the company. Why Nonprofits and Libraries Should Be Central.

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RightsCon: The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few years back a fellow activist asked how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could be embedded into Web 2.0 There have been significant initiatives in this area from groups like the Global Network Initiative but more momentum is needed. What are legitimate constraints on free speech under international human rights law?

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The Internal is the new External: EDF Business Innovation Exchange

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Along with Kathy Reich and Stephanie McAuliffe , we got to ask many questions about their network. The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May.

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits. copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It got me thinking about managing multiples: multiple twitter accounts, multiple people tweeting from one account, and how do you tweet a network of affiliates or a movement. It is also important to identify your staff twitter accounts on your organization's web site. Networks of Affiliates. It's simpler.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. To me, SL has the potential to replace all of those social networks with personal 3D spaces, all linked via a pseudo-metaverse. SL has the potential to add a new level to the existing web technologies.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. We should look to other models. This $7 billion-a-year program promotes universal phone service by subsidizing phone networks. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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