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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. See the Box.org Donation Program for details about this offer.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 31, 2023

Online Resource Library With only a week or two to absorb tons of new information about your sorority or fraternity, your chapter needs to provide ample educational resources to keep your prospective members interested in joining. Moreover, you don’t have to be a web developer to set up your online resource library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2015

How the Natalia Library Helps Patrons Improve Their Lives. The Natalia Veteran's Memorial Library serves the small town of Natalia, Texas. With extremely limited resources, librarian Amy Edge must make difficult decisions every day about what her library can provide. It netted $2,500 for the library.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If you plan to provide access to the virtual event recorded videos (see below) then you might want to allude to this before the end of the event; likely, this was part of your initial event marketing strategy. Email the Recorded Content Library With Limited Access. You’ll likely need to host these files on your webpage.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

As more applications move to "the cloud," where they can be hosted online and accessed from anywhere, many nonprofits and libraries are wondering whether they should be moving their files, email, or other tech needs to hosted online parties as well. Register now and join us on December 6!

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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

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

JULY 3, 2013

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. 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

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We have been helping blind and print disabled people gain access to books for over 17 years. Two recent experiences underscored different parts of this struggle to deliver access. It's great to see someone still using one of our products to access books for this length of time. They face barriers enough without adding more!

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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 the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. With Evernote , you can take notes on your Windows 8 desktop and then access them on your smartphone. File Management. Productivity. Quick Note is like a legal pad for your desktop.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This redesign took a user-centric approach to better meet the needs of the site’s users and also utilized accessible, inclusive, and scalable design. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. Frank’s story exemplifies the life-changing power of access to information and reading. I began a reading binge. Thanks so much for your help! This post originally appeared on the Benetech Blog.

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Byte Technology

JULY 18, 2017

To begin, it’s important to understand that Typekit is a subscription service, which means that you get access to hundreds of types for a flat rate, rather than the other option which requires paying for individual licenses for each font you want to utilize.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If you plan to provide access to the virtual event recorded videos (see below) then you might want to allude to this before the end of the event; likely, this was part of your initial event marketing strategy. Email the Recorded Content Library With Limited Access. You’ll likely need to host these files on your webpage.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 22, 2017

From backing up your files to keeping on a schedule of updates to your theme, plugins and other programs to remembering to always change your passwords, there are lots of ways to keep your site purring along and, more importantly, to make it safe from hackers, malware and the like.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., I was an expert witness in the case, and we’ve filed an amicus brief in the appeal. What’s next?

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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. copyright law.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there. We’re not even talking about “radical librarians.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that. provides cloud-based file sharing, file storage (10 GB), content management, task management, collaborative calendaring, reminders, meeting organizing, discussion boards, plus a bunch of other things.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. The deal was: help people with disabilities that can't access books and don't hurt the economic interests of the publishers (and authors). copyright law. How do we know it's inadvertent?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

model does not allow file upload and limits messages to 4096 tokens (roughly 4096 words) inclusive of both input and output. Using the free version, you cannot analyze your entire dataset at once, but must split the file into separate messages, each a maximum of 2000 words long. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Cloud storage: For file sharing and storage, you can start with Drive through Google Workspace, so all documents can be stored in a convenient, accessible place. And don’t worry – storing files in the cloud is perfectly safe. Your library may have a subscription that you can use onsite for free.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

An Insider Reveals How the Latest Hot Books Are Added to Bookshare’s Collection of Accessible Titles A Guest Beneblog by Liz Halperin After working for many years as a volunteer for Bookshare, I became a paid proofreader for the collection about two years ago. This freed up the pages which were placed in a fast scanner.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. Although it may seem like this is an easier way to manage data, it comes at the cost of the following drawbacks: Security: What happens if your computer is stolen and someone gains access to all of that donor data?

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2013

Save time and staff resources by automating maintenance of your public access computers, kiosks, and computer labs. It’s also comparable to Faronics Deep Freeze, which is helpful for maintaining public access computers so that libraries can easily restore to an original state and block malware, viruses, etc. RollBack RX.

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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. Remind them that you have created an asset library, so sharing requires only a few clicks. You may be trying to upsell to speaker packages or grow your lead generation list.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Some of the biggest ways your nonprofit or library can make an. Save those 10 minutes you spent fumbling through paper while on the phone by clicking on a computer file. Save money on files, file cabinets, printer ink, and paper itself. More accessible information. Here at TechSoup, that would work out to almost 1.8

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

Only access or knowingly attempt to access data that you are authorized to use as a part of your role and job responsibilities. Protect confidential information by encrypting it, limiting access to it, minimizing the number of copies of it, and deleting the data when it is no longer needed. See Tip #11 ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. This fiscal year ten new donor partners have joined with TechSoup to make their product donations available to nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Eligible nonprofits and libraries can now access discounted rates for Citrix Online's web conferencing and remote desktop services. Or you can access your organization's computers from home, while traveling, or after normal business hours. Not sure which web conferencing tool makes sense for your nonprofit or library?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Real time access to information enables nonprofits to more effectively advance their mission in a rapid response world. But anytime/anywhere access comes with a price, which can vary significantly. How often do your workers need mobile access? Some will even cut off access for you — a last-ditch drastic tactic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

We'll kick this off with a completely original, new, and free fundraising service for charities, churches, and libraries. It is useful for any charities and libraries that are moving to Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive for Business for document management. Airbnb Social Impact Experiences. Mobile Beacon.

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