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The Picture Show: The Best WordPress Themes for Video Ventures

Byte Technology

For enabling a truly immersive experience for the user, it’s definitely a solid choice. For those seeking to leverage their WordPress site as an e-tail concern, Dorsa comes with full WooCommerce support as well as an attractive grid layout look utilizing thumbnails to draw attention to the most important and frequently accessed content.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. To bring the power of books to everybody on this planet, we must make books truly accessible. Third, the print book is not universally accessible.

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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. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities. My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger.

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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

This can be inspiring, but it is not always scalable and definitely not measurable. There are short-term outcomes (cleaner beaches, better access to childcare); intermediate outcomes (boosting awareness, changing policies); and long-term outcomes (preserving the environment, improving society). How do you present nonprofit outcomes?

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

With breaking news, it takes time for the full picture to emerge. To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. Analysis that relies on real-time data does not provide a final, definitive picture of funding. foundations’ giving. foundation grantmaking.

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Data to support the relentless pursuit of racial equity 

Candid

Candid recently launched its Demographics via Candid initiative to “empower nonprofits to share their demographic data one time (Data1x), on their Candid profile, where it can be accessed and re-used by all.” Our first task was to develop a shared definition for “people of color-led and people of color-serving” organizations.

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