Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

That was the theme of the ninth Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting that President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton recently convened in New York City last month. Our commitment was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing a global challenge. “Mobilizing for Impact.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . First Book. The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of “awesome in the universe,” mostly through providing $1,000 micro-grants.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Bookshare , our accessible online library, has reshaped the accessibility field and now serves over 250,000 members (the majority of whom are US students) with a collection of nearly 220,000 (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest repository of its kind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 15: World Art Day — #WorldArtDay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

People with disabilities like blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, physical limitations and returning vets with brain injuries -- anyone who cannot simply pick up a printed book and read it. In addition, the quality was often not good enough to deliver fully equal access to educational books. We thought the publishers might help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

23: World Book Day — #WorldBookDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 16: Global Cat Day — #GlobalCatDay. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 14: World Dolphin Day — #DolphinDay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Children's Literacy Initiative. The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) began as a way to provide collections of excellent children’s books & trainings in reading-aloud to teachers in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Star Wars: Force for Change. Greenpeace. The Humane Society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. I admit that I mostly read non-fiction, but if I only read social media or geeky books that would be too narrow. There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes. Schoemaker.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

Simbi’s virtual reading platform enables global literacy through the power of narration, creation, translation, and donation. In her current role at Salesforce, she leads volunteerism in Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta, and Dallas, and co-leads Global Volunteer Month across the company. This isn’t your usual read-a-thon! .

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In case you haven''t already grabbed a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller ''s new book, A Communications Map for Engaging Your Community, Becoming a Favorite Cause, and Raising More Money , it will guide you through designing and implementing a content marketing strategy that will bring in supporters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Julia is the author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits and has a new book coming out this fall on nonprofit social media strategies. Inovo is a global consulting firm that helps purpose-driven leaders with innovative and profitable business models to pursue social change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

One thing I am definitely going to do is write the book I've been kicking around for the last five years. Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You can learn more about the m and how they use technology to further their missions on TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map (LIM). As a strong advocate of children literacy for the past 24 years, Reach out and Read has established a network of 5,000 partners in 50 states and distributes 6.5 million books per year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

These bloggers are also helping out with posts, adding the widget to their side bar, and encouraging readers/friends to contribute: Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog Michael Pick, Screencaster Rebecca Krause-Hardie, Pema Ts'al Amy Jussel, Shaping Youth Darren Barefoot, DB.com (Buy his book!) Amy Sample Ward. Want to join the fun? Sign up here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. The New New Inbox: How Email and Social Media Changed Our Lives , and previously The Smartphone Experiment Book-How to Select Your Smartphone in 5 Easy Steps.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Create a training program to ensure social media literacy. If you want to take a page from Dell’s book, have it include three tiers: personal users, spokespeople answering questions and traditional, offline spokespeople (such as your CEO) who now must also be online spokespeople.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Games examples: Identity and social clicks in high school Globalization - Sim game about you could plounder a developing country Panchatantra - a board game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

(RED) was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by teaming up with the world's most iconic brands to produce (PRODUCT)RED branded products. A percentage of each (PRODUCT)RED product sold is given to The Global Fund.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

We also agreed that we had to work harder at delivering our core common message that disadvantaged communities globally need much more than charitable handouts, they need access to the tools to help themselves. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting. Instant accomplishment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. " Media literacy is a paradigm shift - not an add-in subject. It starts in the home. Parents are facing challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. We will also expand the number of books in our collection by 100,000 new titles. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. What are some resources you can recommend to people who are interested in this kind of work, or your favorite book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

They are generally early adopters of new technologies and consider themselves to be global people. I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again. Only 1/3 of hyper connected people see themselves as early adopters. For each of us, connectivity carries a high price.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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