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Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. Daproim worked with TechnoServe and developed soft skills training modules for students who stuck with the work after an initial period.

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Leading the Way Toward Digital Inclusion

Tech Soup

Recently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) published guides to help community organizations create or expand programs to close the digital divide. Over the years, successful programs have developed comprehensive solutions that share much in common.

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Learn to Use Adobe Software

Tech Soup

Many nonprofits or libraries need to bring in an outside graphic designer, or ask a tech-savvy volunteer or staff member to do the work on top of other duties. The premium subscription allows you to download the same files the instructor uses in the videos to then practice your new skills on your own computers.

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How the Alabama Eye Bank Runs Its Entire Organization on FileMaker

Tech Soup

He has kept his skills current by attending FileMaker developer conferences from time to time. 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. at the Alabama Eye Bank.

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What is Microsoft Lync?

Tech Soup

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at. People in the U.S.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

To identify an appropriate messenger, the report suggests that you ask yourself what knowledge and skills are required for the presentation, who has those requirements and is available, what his/her credentials are, and how those might best be highlighted to the audience. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Evaluation.

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Gateway to the Arts: A Web Design Story

Tech Soup

Throughout the month of May, TechSoup is sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. Sharpen Your Website! “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said. “I would open it and just get depressed and close it again.

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