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| SPIN Project: SPIN Academy 2005 |
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The SPIN Project's Academy 2005 is a five day training program in nonprofit strategic communication, to be held on August 17 - 21, 2005. Ninety percent of the costs of the program are covered by outside funders, so you have to apply to get enrolled. I'm a fan of the organization and I think the agenda for this academy is solid. I wish I were teaching there, actually!
Posted: 7/6/05; 10:41:45 AM # |
| Sharing Nicely |
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In Sharing Nicely (86 page PDF), Yochai Benkler explores large scale, effective practices of sharing, such as carpooling and distributed computing, along with their social, economic, and political implications. I particularly enjoyed the analysis about peer based content development.
Posted: 7/6/05; 10:41:40 AM # |
| Knowmore.org |
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The use of collaborative online editing has proven very successful with Wikipedia, so it's being tried in some narrower domains of knowledge. Knowmore.org is described as a "corporation watch search engine" and basically it's a wiki designed for helping people track corporate misdeeds. I'm not sure how many corporations they have profiled. Exxon and Coca Cola are in there. Microsoft and Boeing are not. It will be interesting to see if this is a good use of the collaborative editing model.
Posted: 7/6/05; 10:41:33 AM # |
| Software Patent Bill Thrown Out |
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In a bit of good news for nonprofits and others in Europe, it seems that the matter of software patents has been resolved. The European parliament voted overwhelmingly against such patents, which means that we won't be seeing for-profit companies in Europe seizing ownership of nonprofit business processes any time soon.
Posted: 7/6/05; 10:41:18 AM # |
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