Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. All materials created for the site are released under Creative Commons licenses so that other sites and blogs can freely reuse the content. Follow us on Twitter: @socialbrite. Subscribe to our blog updates: [link].

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 3, 2015

There was a time before Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce Chatter where this blog was my primary channel to communicate with the world. However, Salesforce.com has a foundation where they give away licenses to qualified nonprofits! I did think it would be more). I found the first post where I talked about Salesforce. Completely free.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Allyson Kapin explores whether: "is FourSquare valuable enough to become the next Facebook or Twitter? Well, here's your source!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

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. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2021

Hailed by the Webbys as “the easiest to use design program in the world”, Canva is a free image editing software that has pre-set image sizes for email banners, Facebook banners and posts, Twitter and Pinterest posts, and a plethora of custom layouts. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the photos.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GyrusSystems. References: 24-hours.psd: Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 Climbing.psd: Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 Hourglass.psd: Icons made by Madebyoliver from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 feature=mhee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. We will then ask for some contact info and for the URLs of all your current social media properties (Twitter, Facebok, Blogs, etc.). Less of an agency and more of a change agent. Your goals for social media in less than 150 words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. We engage in multiple social networks, some that you probably also use: Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Flickr , Slideshare , our own blog , and a few other networks. So, I’m going to explore this theme over the coming weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Here's what it looks like on Facebook and Twitter. That's how much I appreciate Creative Commons licensing, no love Creative Commons. So much so that I release almost everything I do under CC licensing - with the least restrictive license -- the "by." So, we searched for creative commons licensed photos.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2015

It’s a unique format that gets attention, and it can be shared on a variety of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. But with Animoto it’s easy to craft professional-looking videos in minutes: just upload photos or clips and the program allows you to add in pre-licensed music and additional video clips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Witzel says other transparent behavior includes: Creative commons licenses on the web site. Strategy documents are put in google documents or blogged, they ask for feedback via Twitter. Along with Kathy Reich and Stephanie McAuliffe , we got to ask many questions about their network. Sharing internal presentations on slideshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing? How do you know that Twitter caused the increase in Web site traffic? Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. What tool did you use? ET that day, in shifts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Eric has a license, so I tried it. Finally, I don’t need a blog editor that’s also a Twitter client. If I want to edit the image’s size or alignment after I’ve placed it, I have to know the HTML to do it. Fine for me, not so much for my husband or colleagues. Ran screaming mad away from it. Pretty, but so buggy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Twitter was definitely on an upswing (but not near the use we saw this year), and we had a TwitterCamp display set up. And there was another bonus we found later, see the twitter section. Twitter was the biggest social media activity, absolutely no surprise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Generic license ). That dude John Burn [an earlier presenter] was up here saying that ‘Twitter makes it easy to find stuff that pertains to you.’ Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This, often unspoken, acceptance is referred to as an organization’s social license to operate (SLO). If that’s material that interests you, make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and to check out more content at www.utopiaexperience.com/blogs/. appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

While nonprofits have far more followers on Facebook and Twitter, TikTok continues to grow in popularity across the country. One quick note: Not all sounds may be available on a business account, but there are plenty of non-licensed trending sounds that can be used!

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Care2

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Businesses aren’t just sending households coupons anymore they are offering daily deals on sites like LivingSocial or sending out discount codes on social networks after you “like” them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter. And guess what?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

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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NonProfit Hub

JULY 3, 2020

You may choose to use platforms such as social media (like Twitter or Facebook) to publicly call them out. Data licensing. Pay attention to how your advocacy software solution handles licensing. Targeted messaging. Encourage your supporters to send a message via online platforms to targeted decision-makers. It’s up to you!

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