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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java.

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MagnaFlyer: New Tech Helping People with Central Vision Loss

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Denny Moyer, Executive Director of Colorado-based Ensight Skills Centers for Low Vision Rehabilitation , who introduced me to MagnaFlyer, told me that users can read a given amount of text several times faster by having the words rapidly flash by in this way, when compared to traditional approaches to reading the same text.

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The licenses let you pick how to publish your work and grant others the right to reuse it. The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution. What does that mean?".

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Windows MultiPoint Server Frequently Asked Questions

Tech Soup

Windows MultiPoint Server software is ordinarily available through academic or commercial volume licensing. or Premium , and on the license type, either Academic or Commercial. What MultiPoint MultiPoint Server Licensing Do I Need? The licensing for Windows MultiPoint Server is a bit complicated. Both MultiPoint Server.

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What Gets Measured Gets Better

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flash forward 18 months, and I’ve become a measurement evangelist. It gives us license to experiment, knowing we will have hard facts to evaluate the results. I was part of a peer learning group Beth convened when she was writing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Work intervened. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web. Previously, On NMC….

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Generic license This article was originally posted on NetWits Think Tank at [link] by Frank Barry: Frank is a Managing Consultant at Blackbaud - Internet Solutions. Stand up 2 Cancer.