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NTEN Visits Free Geek

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Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon.

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Share, Use, Remix: An Overview of Creative Commons

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Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes. 14ntc copyright license creative commons nptech nten Social Media Strategy Web Sites Communications'

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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? December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), at 1:24 am What was it, the question mark?

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Good Curation VS Bad Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content. His concern was that people would get the wrong message: content curation = theft. ” He says that copyright infringement is not theft.

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NTEN Project Name Change: We Need Your Feedback

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been reading this blog, you know that last week I started to work with NTEN on a social media and nonprofits curriculum development. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. The People in Social Media.

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The Community is the Curriculum: NTEN's Social Media and Nonprofits Project - Come Join the Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the next six months, I will have the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven funded by the Surdna Foundation. But the best reason of all is a chance to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media. lends itself to having people discuss these issues--i.e.,

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This Just In: Computers Are Dead. It's a Mobile World (How Does Your Nonprofit React?)

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One only need look around at the number of people that can''t seem to stay off those mobile devices of theirs. There is no such thing as the FAIL organization -- at least as far as we know -- and NTEN does not propose the actions described above. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com.

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