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Washington Access Fund: Social Media for Small Enterprises

Amy Sample Ward

Date : November 15th, 2010. Related Links : Washington Access Fund , Slides , Blog post with slides and resources. Related Links : Washington Access Fund , Slides , Blog post with slides and resources. Tags: 2010 presentation presetnation small business social media webinar. Location : Online. Topic : Social Media Basics.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. billion people lack access to toilets. This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org This means that sewage spills into rivers and streams, contaminating drinking water and causing disease.

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The FCC just did a series of four blog posts asking for feedback on their new accessibility plans. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The DIAGRAM Center team has also created an image data content model which will provide standards to define and enhance the efficacy and interoperability of accessible images as the project evolves. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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4 Key Features of the New GoFundMe Charity™

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched in 2010, GoFundMe is the world’s largest free social fundraising platform, with more than $5 billion raised by tens of millions of donors. It is important to note that all current CrowdRise by GoFundMe fundraisers will continue to receive the support and access to the tools and features they rely on, without interruption.

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New Microsoft Office 2010 Courses from easyLearning

Tech Soup

And they've recently expanded their catalog with new Microsoft Office 2010 courses. The new Microsoft Office 2010 courses include an overview of common new features in the Office 2010 suite, as well as separate courses introducing new features in the 2010 versions of Word , Excel , Outlook , PowerPoint , Access , and SharePoint.

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