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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

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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. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Monthly donors make this work possible!

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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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