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I spent hours waiting to find out what an NFT looks like IRL

The Verge

For most of the afternoon, the event transformed Terminal 5 into a digital art gallery, showcasing rising NFT artists. Some time afterward, I ended up in a conversation with an artist and an employee of a major NFT exchange. We won’t be offended,” the artist said. The artist was offended. I hesitated before answering. “We

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Why Should Nonprofits Choose Abundance (and Breathe)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? “ Marnie talks about the importance of data aggregation and synthesis skills as a new competency for nonprofits. She also admits that shift from artist to curator is not an easy one for many nonprofits because of the way they are structured. Flickr Photo by TheeErin.

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Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training

TechCrunch

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. In an effort to grant artists more control over how — and where — their art’s used, Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst co-founded the startup Spawning AI. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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Can the Real Time Web Let Me Be in Two Places at the Same Time?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yes, there is a delicious list of tools to explore which include some of my favorite types of tools - aggregation, analytics, monitoring, collaboration, blogging, microblogging, and more! Rob Cottingham, one of my favorite stand up comics, cartoon artists, and social media/nonprofit gurus, got to attend the Real Time Web Summit.

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Kenya-based Powered by People gets $5 million seed to scale operations of its wholesale e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

We’re also providing aggregation of logistics,” said Peinovich. “They can track items; we also provide low-cost payment transfers from the U.S., which is our primary market. We provide payment rails so that they can receive orders in U.S. Peinovich said she has always been drawn to social enterprises.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Measuring Work. Does it help you solve a problem?

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How to Visualize Your Music Data

Tableau

Measures can be aggregated. We’ll walk through some useful features in Tableau and how to make a sheet for your most played artists, then hand over the reins for you to draw your own insights. Drag the “Artist Name” dimension to the Rows shelf. Most Played Artists (Bar chart). Artist Name. Artist Name on Tooltip.

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