Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 21, 2007
Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 17, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. It just isn’t intuitive to use (Photoshop isn’t either, really.)
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 16, 2015
In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. "The rise of mobile.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 28, 2013
During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. Jobs was as usual quite prescient.
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 1, 2014
The couriers use iPads to collect the data about the organ donation using mobile client software called FileMaker Go. The Alabama Eye Bank operates the Global Sight Network , a service the eye bank started in 2008 to provide corneas prepared through long-term preservation to health-care facilities in developing countries.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
In 2008, volunteer Casey Sorensen became PCs for People's first executive director. Plus, in 2016, it created a new community initiative to distribute computers and Mobile Beacon Internet to low-income people. Going National. He introduced significant innovations. Image 1 : Hatchapong Palurtchaivong / Shutterstock. spanhidden.
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