Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

All content should be in small bite-sized chunks. Most online donation tools offer default language for this, but you need to customize it so the language is warm and on brand. Illuminate India has a fabulous video on their home page : 6. Use well-written and concise copy, with no long paragraphs or lists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

Founded by Indian Institute of Management professor Brij Kothari, the first concept was same language subtitling. When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. They first created original visual story content, and then added different languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. While English might be very useful in Nairobi, Swahili would be the language needed in rural Kenya.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. Conclusion In plain language, this is a Treaty that should start to remedy the book famine. Articles 5 and 6.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The event was designed for the Mashable audience, a younger and social media savvy group that has the hunger and capacity to consumer a lot of content as well as do good in the world. He mentioned developments in the technology – like the $35 tablet in India – that are getting many more people who were left out connected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Your design is not just about content. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. They’ll share your content. As with all Asks, center your language around the things you’ll be able to do with the donor’s money – like the lives they’ll be able to change. Very good question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. What is Jumo?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The signals from a few European countries on its likely content have not been encouraging. This seems unreasonably modest, when Bookshare alone already has much more favorable voluntary agreements covering 20,000 English language titles and 1,000 Spanish language titles with many of the major U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Eugene said not to focus on the content. 1) Everybody is People. 5) Peturb the Ecosystem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. I learned to speak the language fluently, and was there at a really intense time in terms of the civil war, and a lot of the political uprisings that were going on. We do sell our content to media organizations all over the U.S.,

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you just want to review the content later on, don’t worry. So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

We talked about bringing English language Bookshare to Qataris with print disabilities, and our discussions quickly went to what it would take to truly serve Arabic speakers in Qatar and around the world. There is a tremendous need to expand accessible content in the languages that most people with print disabilities around the world use.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

And, that''s not even mentioning that fact that the MPAA has already gotten their content excluded from the Treaty years ago. The World Blind Union''s lead negotiator pointed out how these provisions would, in practice, stop Bookshare from serving blind people in India. That''s what the MPAA calls "balance?" under a Treaty.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Now, there’s not a ton of content on these slides. So I’m working with someone and he has an organization based in India. He wanted to talk to a donor, a potential donor, about sponsoring a conference for his staff in India and he used this technique. “More useful tips about language we should use.”

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