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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

While I was at the ATIA conference in Florida, our Director of Marketing was in Washington DC at another conference. But, it's not just in Washington DC. Betsy Burgess got to run into Senator Harkin, who exclaimed "I love Bookshare!" For someone working in the disability field, hearing that (even secondhand!)

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AUGUST 16, 2011

I just attended two days of meetings in Washington DC on the first year of the DIAGRAM Center , held at the Office of Special Education Programs in the Department of Education.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Sometimes, it's often hard to find the comments to reply to, at least for me, since I'm not a DC insider. Then, people have a certain number of weeks to post comments, but can't comment on each others' work real-time. And then, there's a time for reply comments.

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MARCH 1, 2009

I'm between speaking four times in Illinois on Friday (will blog about that soon) and heading to Washington DC today (Sunday) for three days of meetings around Bookshare and social entrepreneurship. Somebody captured a great picture of Jimmy (which I asked him to send me) in full fencing gear during the tourney.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) as well as meeting with our Bookshare funders at the Department of Education.

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APRIL 20, 2013

But, by eventually following Donna’s advice and talking to the Office of Special Education Programs in DC, we discovered the funding and the way forward for Bookshare to begin to realize its potential. Washington? Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” Thank you, George and Donna, for helping us make real our dreams of service!

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JANUARY 27, 2008

Right after the award for B4E, I gave a keynote at the NCTI conference in DC that went over well. It was a blast, given that we've more than quadrupled the number of students we're serving in less than four months! Plus, Bookshare.org just past 36,000 books on-line, and 37,000 will likely happen within a month.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Formerly the chief technology officer the nation's capital city, Washington DC, his job now is to direct "the policy and strategic planning of federal information technology investments and is responsible for oversight of federal technology spending," according to the White house.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

I’ll be putting a few of my tactics into the mix as the conversation unfolds, such as: * How I learned to love Priceline for getting cheap four-star hotels $85 for four star hotels in DC and London! *

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NOVEMBER 18, 2007

Although we are well known in the national and international disability field, it's been about ten years since I spent much time in DC (last time was the original Section 508 federal advisory committee in the 90s). Apparently, winning a competition for the largest award made by OSEP in memory (ever?) caused quite a stir.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Today, I gave a presentation on human rights in DC, with a focus on our work with truth commissions. I’m thinking a great deal these days about human rights and about doing more for the field. I recently spoke at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference , where I talked about technology for human rights defenders.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2008

I had a vision of this being a DC-3 or some such, but it's a modern 737 that is rated as "ETOPS" which means it's able to fly for three hours on one engine. Getting to these islands is not simple. The way to get to the main islands from the U.S. is to fly to Hawaii and then take the "island-hopper."

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JANUARY 24, 2009

They had just take a group of students to Washington DC to meet Caltech alums working in science policy, but they want to go further. The leadership of the Y (including the ED, Athena Castro) was interested in exploring how to get Caltech students and faculty more involved in social and humanitarian science and technology work.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

In early October, I'll be heading to Washington DC for a board meeting of the Social Enterprise Alliance , the group that promotes social enterprise among nonprofits, and then on to Seattle for a board meeting of RAF Technology, Inc., a tech company that Dave Ross and I founded in 1989.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. She also loves the fact that Benetech is based in California’s naturally beautiful Bay Area.

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APRIL 19, 2009

The conference,which took place in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, was hosted by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I then zipped down to DC for three days. But, we’re concerned about small nonprofits who are not Google, Facebook, Pearson or Benetech, and they aren’t able to show up in a place like DC. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. And much more… Washington, D.C. So, we fill in for them.

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