Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. This year, it’s been especially worrisome to see the rising tide of violence against the lesbian and gay communities around the world. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms.

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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

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

One thing experts agree on is that the digital divide has far-reaching consequences at the individual, community, and. national level. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. under the National School Lunch Program. The best part?

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Spring fundraisers are a great way to bring your community together while gaining support for your cause. You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Offer tickets for your community to come watch the event and bring in a judging panel to determine the prize winners.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We need hands on deck, so having to close our volunteer program was a challenge for us—emotionally, losing such a large part of our community—but we also had to find a way to keep them connected so that they would come back when our doors reopened. And so, we kind of scrambled to learn things like Zoom. Talking with Volunteer Administrators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark founded InvisiblePeople.tv , a nationally-recognized nonprofit that fights homelessness using the power of social media. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

" The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. Many nonprofits and libraries all across the country are doing great work around digital inclusion. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has organized a prominent U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

" The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. Many nonprofits and libraries all across the country are doing great work around digital inclusion. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has organized a prominent U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. An important ingredient to our strategy was building a community around our mission.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Local representatives from nonprofits, schools, and community groups convened in downtown San Francisco for Microsoft's YouthSpark Connection event. A national nonprofit, Year UP aims to close the opportunity gap and empower urban talent to reach their potential. Libraries Building Bridges. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

This spring, NTEN launched its Digital Inclusion Fellowship Program in which 16 young community leaders in eight Google Fiber communities will have paid internships for a year with local charities. They will create and promote digital literacy programs. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance. A Human Right.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate. Anyone interested in finding out more on this program can call 1-855-8-INTERNET. A number of U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries? suggests just that.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

TechSoup has partnered with goQ Software to make their writing assistance and speech recognition software, WordQ + SpeakQ , available to eligible nonprofits and libraries. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Veale Humanitarian Award for service to the blind community. Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. Carrie just received the James H. Congratulations, Carrie!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. As a company, they works to have a positive impact on the local communities around the world where it has offices.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. Hear what other nonprofits and libraries are saying in our Community Forums.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

The ability to read printed material is essential to advancing educational and employment opportunities for this community. The goal of this on-line library is to stop the scanning of textbooks for K-12 education - a job which is now done by parents, teachers and students. I was reminded of that moment this earlier this month.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Privacy and Security.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We so frequently over-focus on our own institutions' problems, and Jane and her cohorts in Pittsburgh are thinking much more expansively about their collective power to make positive change in their community. IMLS also wanted to help museums and libraries improve their skills, both for audiences and for their own professional communities.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. Many museums are making this shift as they hire “community managers” who communicate with users on an ongoing basis.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries?

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