Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I'm now on my first-ever trip to mainland China, thanks to the Hadley School for the Blind twentieth anniversary of their China school. nonprofit to have a China branch, but truly amazing that it's been there for twenty years. It's impressive what people in Hong Kong have done with their tiny patch of China.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The China Braille Press was another impressive visit. The software they use was apparently written at the Press. We also got to visit (on the same campus), the Braille library, which was full of thousands of volumes of Braille. Apparently, the Sino-Japanese war in the 1930s started nearby, at the Marco Polo Bridge.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. Our Local Impact Map.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The service requires no login or password and no special software or hardware, just use email from any type device. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. also reports some news that effect libraries. See the map here. Netflix for E-books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Wonderful stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Wonderful stuff.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

You can read about some of these apps in on our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page. Windows Phone 8 is designed to work with Windows 8 and Windows software. If your organization or library is interested in building an app, the new AppMachine site is worth checking out. App Development Just Got Easier. Mobile Green Tech.

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