Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

HuffPo recently published my first post, Disabled Students Need Accessible Books. It's great to be able to bring this kind of attention to our work at Bookshare helping students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I talk a lot about how technology can help create tremendous educational opportunities for students with print disabilities. Steffon, who attends Gadsden Community College in Gadsden, Alabama is a straight-A student who has made his college deans list each semester. Because the Bookshare collection is free to qualified U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In his book, Education is Freedom , author James W. Because of his lifelong commitment to education, Keyes founded the Education is Freedom Foundation , which provides college scholarships for hard-working young students. And in his book, he shares much about his time at Blockbuster and that company’s journey. from 2007 to 2011.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

There’s a global book famine afflicting people with disabilities. They lack the books they need for education, employment, and social inclusion. Benetech has already solved this problem for students in the United States. Our Bookshare library has over 550,000 books that have been delivered digitally over 10 million times.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

France mentioned some cool education technology that had been developed at Purdue, called Signals - Stoplights for student success. Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! And, get these signals to both students and faculty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Before this initiative, critical illustrations in math and science books could only be studied by those reading traditional texts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

There is good reason why, The Leadership Challenge , book is now in its sixth addition. Revised to address current challenges, this sixth edition marks thirty-plus years since the book was first published. One of my favorite pieces of advice from the book are the six ways leaders can Challenge the Process. The authors, James M.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There is good reason why, The Leadership Challenge , book is now in its sixth addition. Revised to address current challenges, this sixth edition marks thirty-plus years since the book was first published. One of my favorite pieces of advice from the book are the six ways leaders can Challenge the Process. The authors, James M.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Benetech got a call recently from an excited Bookshare member who had been waiting to download our new Read2Go accessible e-book application for Apple devices. Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Fundraising is often a necessity for schools to provide students and teachers with resources that set them up for success. Choose a fundraiser that educates students. Celebrate students by offering prizes. What about students’ extended families? Just as your student body changes year by year, so might your donors.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. They were students of Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types. The MBTI can illuminate group dynamics.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

While most institutions have been able to successfully transition students to online learning, admission leaders are still adjusting their strategies to promote new student growth and sustain retention despite the changing times. For adult students, ask about work adjustments and family experiences. Show student work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

But I also regularly read books as part of my ongoing self-directed learning. When I’m training other trainers, I often get asked “What books should I read?” This book looks at standard secondary education practices and adapts them based on scientific research about how the brain learns. by Eric Jensen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published many, many years ago. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keo Savon, the young Cambodian woman supported by Measuring Networked Nonprofit book royalties. The book also has a social good purpose. The money went to support students like Maneth, an IT major who now teaches computer lessons in the orphanage where my children lived.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1: Being – explores how Learn-It-All leaders think. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

Audiobook and e-book library : Access thousands of fundraising- and nonprofit-related e-books and audiobooks, expertly curated by Candid’s librarians. Grants to Individuals : Students can use this resource to find grants intended to reduce student debt.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Featured Gift— The LGBTQIA+ Reading List —“ Gift the gift of queer books to an LGBT Center, a Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA), or a similar LGBTQ+ affinity club at a school near you! It Gets Better Project Proceeds from each purchase help to reach more young people throughout the world every day. Wear your support for LGBTQ+ youth.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1: Being – explores how Learn-It-All leaders think. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

Our book was one of four finalists, including colleague Allyson Kapin and Amy Sample Ward’s awesome book, “Social Change Anytime, Anywhere.” ” This book would not have been possible with going through a wonderful collaboration for my first book, “The Networked Nonprofit” with Alison Fine. .”

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Those talks with association CEOs and executives who head businesses that service the association industry formed the basis for two books. Roy Chomko, CEO of Adage Technologies, credits a book with helping his business to run more smoothly. requires the courage to never stop being a pioneer, a student, and a risk-taker.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Your work attracts new students, engages current students, and delights alumni and donors. Attracting Students. Potential students are excited and nervous all at once. As marketers, we’re always trying to stay on top of the latest trends—and college-age students are a discerning audience. Hold Students’ Attentions.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There’s a fundraising story about Bill Gates receiving a telemarketing call from a young student alum asking fellow Harvard alumni to donate. Bill’s reply to the young student. When the student replied that “most people were giving $500” Bill replied, “Great, I’ll give that amount as well.” Even more interesting?

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Education announcements tied around the theme of wowing students for lifelong success introduced a number of key new features and enhancements poised to revolutionize the industry. Student Contact vs. Parent Contact), and respected Record Types, all while preventing those stubborn duplicates.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You can do this by visiting a Black history museum or African American heritage site, by reading and sharing books written by Black authors, and by exploring Black music history. They help hundreds of students every year and 96% of their classes consist of students who are people of color and 67% of their students identify as women.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While many people claim to be experts, the real social media users know that they will always be students, and they love it! Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book Book Tour?. ?Book Book Tour Sponsors. List of Nonprofits Mentioned in the Book?. What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Another Dreamforce is in the books, and although this year’s event looked different than those in the past, it wasn’t lacking the usual entertainment, insight, and community building that we’ve come to expect from a traditional Dreamforce experience. Mapping an End-to-End Student Journey with Education Cloud with Ivy Tech Community College.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

Casella, who has worked in special education for 50 years, discussed the different kinds of technology the Bridge School uses with its students. The goal of the program is to develop a sense of independence within the students by giving them as many tools as they need. The Bridge School's work and research has global reach.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2024

As Louis Gump puts it in his new book, The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship , “an intrapreneur creates value through innovation and growth, inside a larger organization.” It also emphasizes recruitment and retention of top-tier talent.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

Check out the book, Eat That Frog! For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

From recruitment and admissions to student success and reporting, the Salesforce.org Winter ’22 Education Cloud Release features a number of updates and optimizations designed to help make institution operations more efficient. This new feature will help better track the individual’s journey from prospect to student to alumni.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Student Information System, accounting system, and fundraising CRM all contain critical data points. There are many areas in which data can help influence our decision-making, from supporting academic initiatives that drive student outcomes to budget allocation and donor engagement strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Note from Beth: Carol Cone was kind enough to offer several copies of her a book as a giveaway. About the book: At a time when nonprofits are growing globally, and as the U.S. The authors based the book on their decades of combined experience working with nonprofits, and on in-depth case studies of eleven visionary organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

The new book, Bridgebuilders , should be on the reading list of every public official, CEO, and civic leader. That is because throughout the book, authors William D. You will discover more than one hundred specific strategies and tips , proven by some of the world’s best managers that Eggers and Kettl share in their book.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Many print-disabled people (people who are blind, severely dyslexic or a have a physical disability that keeps them from reading regular print books) see electronic books as a dream come true. But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 30, 2022

This small but mighty nonprofit is committed to improving life for LGBTQ+ people by sharing personal stories and educating school students, parents and guardians, teachers, youth workers, and workplaces on LGBTQ+ issues. Or why not book an in-person or online workshop for your school, organisation, local parent or youth community group? “To

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