(ISF) New NTEN Affinity Group: Open Content Business Models

Hi all,

We've started a new Affinity group: Open Content Business Models

Here's the description:

There has been a lot of discussion in the nonprofit technology community about open content. Open content is content (papers, articles, presentations, graphics, etc.) that is freely available, and released under a Creative Commons (or similar) license. But, so far, a successful business model has not be tested or evaluated. This group is designed to provide a forum for frank discussions of open content business models for the nonprofit sector, to discuss what works, what doesn't work, how to evaluate different models, and, eventually, to help develop, disseminate and foster different kinds of content business models that provide the ability to provide quality content to the sector in ways that are both financially sustainable for the authors and editors, and are as open and freely accessible as possible.

Business models for content generation in the nonprofit sector is one part of a much larger question: how does knowledge generation happen in the sector, and what are the ways we can help foster and sustain it? We'll be discussing that larger issue as well.

The moderators of this group are Beth Kanter, Michael Gilbert, Michelle Murrain and Laura Quinn.

Come join us!

http://groups.nten.org/group.htm?mode=home&igid=48282

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