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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe in the power of books to change the world. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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As the art critic John Berger said in his book Ways of Seeing , “We only see what we look at. Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that stewards Wikipedia, regularly asks for feedback from stakeholders and publishes what they share, along with any changes that are made to the programs from that feedback. To look is an act of choice.”

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 are about empowerment of individuals, and connecting people to each other by the content that they create, or are interested in. What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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