http://www.netsquared.org/conference-sessions/free-speech share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/mlinksva/creative-commons-and-free-culture-technologies <p>In my part of the <a href="/conference/conference-sessions/freespeech">Turning Communicatons Technologies Into Tools For Free Speech And Free Culture session I&#39;ll cover:</a></p> <ul> <li>Technologies that enable free, participatory, sustainable, democratic culture</li> <li>Threats to the full flowering of these technologies</li> <li>Free culture as free speech and vice versa</li> <li>Creative Commons legal and technical tools</li> <li>How your nonprofit can leverage CC and other technologies to spread its message and involve its constituency</li> </ul> <p>For an introduction to Creative Commons please visit&nbsp; the <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons home page</a> and in particular watch the five minute intro <em><a href="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/">Get Creative</a></em>.</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/mlinksva/creative-commons-and-free-culture-technologies">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/mlinksva/creative-commons-and-free-culture-technologies#comments Free speech Wed, 17 May 2006 19:49:55 -0400 mlinksva 1303 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/bob-robertson-boyd/ears-open-mouth-closed <p>What am I bringing to the conference?&nbsp; Open ears.&nbsp; Open mind.&nbsp; Closed mouth.&nbsp; Okay.&nbsp; I won&#39;t keep my mouth closed for the whole time, but I intend to do a lot more active listening than monologuing.&nbsp; I&#39;ll do the monologue here: </p> <p>What else will I bring?&nbsp; Some book knowledge of the Millennial generation and a little experience in marketing to them in a higher education setting.</p> <p>My experience? I have a little volunteer experience.&nbsp; Some experience in building and maintaining online communities.&nbsp; Some experience enabling citizen journalism (circa 1997).&nbsp; Some exeperience in the .Gov world; some in the .Edu world.&nbsp; I have ZERO experience in real programming, but I&#39;ve been living and working online since 1993. </p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/bob-robertson-boyd/ears-open-mouth-closed">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/bob-robertson-boyd/ears-open-mouth-closed#comments experience fuzzy gonzo higheredblogcon intro read Aggregation and tagging Business model revolution Citizen Journalism Community knowledge Disruption Free speech Grassroots marketing Social networking Tue, 16 May 2006 21:03:28 -0400 Bob Robertson-Boyd 1285 at http://www.netsquared.org