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First trip to China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

And I hadn’t noticed the imagery at first, but when you look at it here you can see, [image] clearly the contrast that they’re creating is around skin tone where Kendra’s opponent has very light skin, rosy skin, “Kodak China Girl skin” as its described, and Kendra’s skin is darkened and she looks very shadowy. It’s not their story.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This actually sounds too good to be true. 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. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. See the map here. Netflix for E-books.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Sounds kind of un-American, doesn’t it? starting to act more like China than the home of the free.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Sounds kind of un-American, doesn’t it? starting to act more like China than the home of the free.

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