Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

My reaction was that this kind of advocacy work was a luxury we couldn’t afford. We were elated and eager to get to work. Delivering my statement before the House Committee on the Judiciary, August 2013 We’ve since learned many lessons about the multiplier effect of advocacy. I was wrong. million contract to do just that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. That’s the Caltech advantage! Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture.

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APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Michael Hoffman.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. delegation signing the treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. Unfortunately, only one in six youth who are eligible for the National School Lunch Program take advantage of the Summer Food Service Program.

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JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. " The Role of Libraries. Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities.

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MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. We appreciated the opportunity to work with TechSoup and tell our story.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

Since Earth Day 2013, the eCycle Best has recycled more than 34,000 gadgets. Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, released a free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and other working with youth locate free meal sites in the summer. 11,000 were laptops. Images: iFixit.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

By 2004 she had come back to her hometown of Baton Rouge and was working as a management consultant to a failing nonprofit. Places like TechSoup and the National Cristina Foundation put out the word that donated computers were badly needed in Louisiana, and they came by the truckload. “It just works better that way.”

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“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. BackRubbing doesn’t work. The most significant data breach , so far, affected 3 billion users around the world and happened in 2013 and 2014.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association. Information Today.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Now available to nonprofits, charities, and libraries through TechSoup, Bitdefender security products protect individual PCs and Macs as well as enterprise networks. A two-way firewall continuously monitors Internet connections and prevents unauthorized access — even on a WiFi network or when working remotely. Drum roll, please!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Yes, that's right.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River has shown literally millions of people, including policymakers, the need to protect places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's Tongass Rainforest. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River has shown literally millions of people, including policymakers, the need to protect places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's Tongass Rainforest. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Volunteers add so much value to the work of TechSoup. And might it be worth it for your nonprofit, library or other mission-based organization? We love the idea of having this oh-so-easy way to involve online volunteers in our work, supplementing the longer-term commitment of our forum moderators. Not even hundreds.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. According to reports, Instagram is currently working on a built in metrics system, so that companies who invest advertising dollars on Instagram can get a moderate picture of ROI. In fact, the latest numbers given by the U.S.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. anniversary of National Cyber Security Awareness Month , the folks from our great donor partner, Symantec, asked us to check out the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance website. to see what resources are there for charities and libraries. To be sure, there are a lot. Send an email.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Very, very cool, I must say.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

You can read about some of these apps in on our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page. Windows Phone 8 is designed to work with Windows 8 and Windows software. For example, you can work on a document in the new Microsoft Office on your Windows 8 laptop, take a break, and then pick up where you left off on your Windows Phone.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Peter Campbell.

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