sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. Creating new content, leveraging old content, or creating a sign-up wall to access existing content is a great way to grow your email list.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. To continue this work, we depend on the support of generous donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As The road toward full access for braille readers has a number of other hurdles that must be overcome.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think it’s time to write a series of short essays on the struggle for accessible books, starting with this brouhaha. In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. Ebooks on PCs have had text-to-speech capabilities for years (although not always enabled).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Resources Deluxe – their blog, ebooks, help docs, and design trends are seriously useful and well designed resources that any nonprofit marketing team should check out. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. Our partners proofread the text, fixing mistakes and adding accessibility, and ship us the files back to add to our Bookshare library. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). Ensure that only people with qualifying disabilities get access to these books. Because the names of the users who downloaded the content are almost always still in the files in plaintext!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 5, 2009

We recently announced partnerships with The University of Chicago Press, the University of California Press and New York University Press, where they will be sending digital files of their books to Bookshare to be made available to people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They send Bookshare the same digital book files that they provide to Amazon, Apple or Barnes and Noble.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Here’s a sampling of the kinds of projects on our current list: Operating an open repository of image descriptions to assist blind and other disabled people to access the information locked up in images, especially in education (big fair use question here). I was an expert witness in the case, and we’ve filed an amicus brief in the appeal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming. With the old approaches, only a tiny fraction of print materials were made available in accessible formats.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Common offers include: Lifetime or VIP access to your online summit or the recorded content. Selling your core offer with an All-Access Pass included. You should outsource it (instead of designing it yourself) and make sure that you have vector files. Create and Structure Critical Landing Pages for the Virtual Summit.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Foundation recently took part in an IT security assessment that resulted in additional training for staff related to keeping access to our data and files safe. Free eBook: Internal Controls for Grantmakers. Free eBook: The Business Case for an Online Foundation Management Solution.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Common offers include: Lifetime or VIP access to your online summit or the recorded content. Selling your core offer with an All-Access Pass included. You should outsource it (instead of designing it yourself) and make sure that you have vector files. Create and Structure Critical Landing Pages for the Virtual Summit.

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Online Create Registration Virtual 52

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ebook Website Optimization Action Plan Learn More 2. Is your website design accessible for individuals with disabilities? Financials: Contains documents or another type of breakdown of your revenue, expenses, tax filings, financial growth, etc. How long does it take to find your donation page and process a donation?

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

The files are stored on Microsoft’s servers. There is also a free eBook on Office365 on the same site. Whether I’m on the train or in Starbucks— or thousands of miles from my office—I can easily access the critical information that I need to manage our business. The point is, we do not have a server anymore. We got rid of it.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Then click the “Create Audience” drop-down and select “Customer File.” CSV file or MailChimp list to import. To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website. Make Calls To Action Relevant, Visible And Accessible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. The first was the ebook.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few people want to read a 388-page book online, and I've received several notes from people who checked out the online version and then decided to buy a physical or ebook copy. Self-Publishing with Print-On-Demand "Print on demand" systems allow you to upload book files (usually PDFs), which are then used to print books to order.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

One of the benefits of internet events is that you may distribute immediate access to digital goodies like downloads, special offers, or links to webinars. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 8) Digital download donation rewards. 9) Movie screenings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

With the right event registration tool, your supporters should be able to access your event registration page from your nonprofit website, gain all the necessary details, and successfully complete the form. Download eBook. Video Toolbox is a free video editing solution that can process video files up to 1500 MB.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. The emergence of new technology alone has led to increases in donor expectations on several fronts—from mission transparency and program reporting to organization access and donor responsiveness.

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