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Forum One Wins 11 Communicator Awards

Forum One

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Distinction – Website for Education.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Accordingly, U.S.

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Meet the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Judges

Tech Soup

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! Danny Alpert, Executive Producer of See3 , is a producer, director, and editor whose films have been nominated for Academy and national Emmy Awards, and have aired on PBS, HBO, A&E, and at festivals around the world.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

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To most patrons, HDL merely delivers titles and page numbers as results, but the University of Michigan’s Library, one of the HathiTrust members, does allow access to the full text of copyrighted works for people with qualifying print disabilities. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations. and the European Union.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries, including “The Tillamook Burn” (2003), “The ‘D’ Word: Understanding Dyslexia” (Sundance 2012), and “The Eyes of Thailand” (2012). His forthcoming. employers in Brazil and the US.