Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., In September 2007, the U.S. There are some 7.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world. And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

The app includes journals and trackers to allow parents to record important information about their journey, a glossary of commonly used terms, a community and resource library, a directory of NICU family support partners, a postpartum checkup, and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries. Works Covered.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Celebrated every October, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure all Americans have the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. At TechSoup, we believe that everyone should have basic security skills, but it is especially important for nonprofits and public libraries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It scary to think that your activity online can be tracked by corporations, the government, hackers, and other nefarious (and seemingly un -nefarious) entities. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2013

TechSoup's Senior Content Manager Ariel Gilbert-Knight details how the MicroMappers apps work in the Guardian Global Development Professionals Network , a blog associated with The Guardian. The authors come from varying sectors, including NGOs, government agencies, academia, and business. More on Technology and Disaster Relief.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup donor partner, Huddle , which is our cloud-based collaboration and content management donor partner has just broken that mold. Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. It's our nature.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. I would class this as TVI (nearly identical) plus additional provisions creating a similar exception for schools, libraries and archives.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Donors, funders (including government funders), social enterprises, and others also have important roles to play. As the content manager here at TechSoup, part of my job is to help nonprofits and libraries learn to choose and use the right technologies to help achieve their mission. That's a hard question to answer.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. You should spend as much time and energy making your data, charts, and tables findable as you do making your reports and other content. Then, your "data library" can be sorted, searched, and filtered just like your publication library.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2011

– public Internet use, availability of government services over the. It’s clear from these statements that increasingly, solutions that serve both public and private needs will be offered via the cloud. Just as government agencies offer services and make transparent their. data in various e-government.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Donors, funders (including government funders), social enterprises, and others also have important roles to play. As the content manager here at TechSoup, part of my job is to help nonprofits and libraries learn to choose and use the right technologies to help achieve their mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. Giving public recognition for action and leadership empowers more action and more leadership – both from those in the spotlight and those that will come next.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

When I got back to Harvard Law School, you couldn’t get me out of the law school library because now I had this purpose and mission. They don’t know that New York’s governor, after reconstruction, said, “This is a white man’s country, let white man rule define governance in the state of New York.”

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The annual 24-hour giving day, created to counter the retail-heavy push that begins with Black Friday, has thousands of nonprofits, businesses, city governments, and other institutions participating in a drive to highlight generosity and partnership for good. Craft a strong appeal by sourcing your content early. Campaign Page.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) Distributed mobile content experiences seem to suffer from two basic problems: Underwhelming entry points. Are you going to use it to scan for public art near you?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) government (" U.S. Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights. Eligibility.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Dear Museum 2.0-ers, But one page!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. The Internet has proven an invaluable way to access and create content (which becomes part of big data ). Privacy concerns persist with the use of the cloud.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion."

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Businesses that fall under Title I, those that operate 20 or more weeks per year with at least 15 full-time employees, or Title III, those that fall under the category of “public accommodation,” are covered by the ADA. government may withhold state funding if the state doesn’t comply with Section 508. Dunkin Donuts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Events (publicity or other perks). Access to exclusive digital content. Touch the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

What do libraries look like in the future? Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. Making kids s public so we as adults can understand what is going on. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth for many organizations in the nonprofit and government space. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2005

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Some of the largest web ventures are opening the doors to their content by giving savvy scripters direct access to the databases that drive these sites using programatic interfaces or APIs.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of designs print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything. Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. This project took home six awards this year!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2015

TechSoup and Adobe have teamed up to bring you a Facebook contest where you can win $1,000 by submitting any and all content your organization has created using Adobe. to showcase your nonprofit or library. b) Content. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial. How fun is that?

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

What if societies could use a shared public record of election results to confirm that an election was carried out fairly instead of having to trust an opaque government-run commission? Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. What risks might blockchain unlock? Want more tips like this?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. How can we talk about promoting change when we’re not pushing this content into the commons? The overhead of finding sponsors for a small publication is enormous. But then I looked deeper.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So if you have to leave early or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. So there are some things like that that you might want to consider, especially if you’re maybe looking into government grants. Generally, not government funding, but that doesn’t mean.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Carlos Bergfeld, Lead Web Content Developer. " Ariel Gilbert Knight, Senior Content Manager. It's a dystopian vision of the not-too-distant future where the government monitors all digital communications and your every movement is tracked. It reveals the perils of Web 3.0

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