Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Spanish is the second-most-common language in the United States, with an estimated 40 million Americans speaking Spanish as their primary language. Digital images that help you capture and share your organization's work in action. Spanish-Language Products Available at TechSoup: read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. 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.

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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. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library continues to expand its international service providing accessible books and publications to members in more than 30 countries. These partners include the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), the Hoerbuecherei des OSBV Talking Book Library in Austria, and the Dorina Nowill Foundation in Brazil.?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the future, the bot will be able to sift through slack channels and identify in appropriate language. Source: Charity Digital News ). AI and Libraries: A consortium of 14 public libraries is banding together to look at the potential benefits and risks of AI and public libraries and educate the public.

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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. Respect Privacy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

Of course libraries are all about education in its various forms. Since then, the organization has partnered with hundreds of schools and provided digital learning resources to 50,000 families in five cities. The math and language materials are geared to the Common Core State Standards that most U.S. How It Works.

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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.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria was especially excited about Read2Go’s navigation features that allow her to search and download accessible e-books from our Bookshare library directly to her iPad and iPhone. Ltd which is known for its PLEXTALK® brand of digital talking book players.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

People are watching our hand movements and our body language. If you can appropriately find the money, it’s great to offer digital gifts to boost attendee excitement and thank your speakers. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Use more slides than you think you need, and think visually.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. Our new work in the coming years is based on a simple premise: Everything born digital should be born accessible.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. on how to get your organization started telling stories digitally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I now review books that are scanned and uploaded in formats that can be read using different forms of assistive technology such as text-to-speech, digital Braille or enlarged fonts. While publishers do donate thousands of digital texts to Bookshare, the NYT bestsellers are added to the collection through a "people process."

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. When building through the API For more advanced users, there are ways to better tune models with more variables beyond language. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. Start building your video-adjacent content library now. Build content on very long-tail keywords and natural language questions. Interacting via voice is conditioning us to speak more naturally to get what we need.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. I would class this as TVI (nearly identical) plus additional provisions creating a similar exception for schools, libraries and archives. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). This was recently presented by the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2008

We'll expect to be sending some digital images of books from the U.S. Plus, as we get more permissions from India publishers, we'll be able to source English language books locally. And, hopefully in the future we'll be able to do books in Indian languages like Hindi and Tamil (and many others, of course).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), These licenses provide a plain-language, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work — on conditions of the creator's choice. Take advantage of all of TechSoup's best digital storytelling resources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I was able to tour the facilities, which included at least three digital recording studios using the DAISY software for human narrated books. Narrators were recording digital audio books in both English and Hindi while I was there. Narrators were recording digital audio books in both English and Hindi while I was there.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What happens when AI has even more vast libraries and generations of human learning to draw from? DL applications have revolutionized areas such as image recognition and natural language processing. Natural language processing is concerned with the interaction between computers and human language.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Luckily, there are some great Internet safety resources that are specific for healthcare organizations , libraries , seniors , kids , and small offices (like the ones that most nonprofits have). We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age. Online Security for Libraries.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. Did you recognize the five elements in our story? A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link].

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. ARC already has a training lab there that provides lifelong learning opportunities for older adults, many of whom speak languages other than English. Windows MultiPoint Server.

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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. To learn more about how fellow nonprofits and libraries are using assistive technology at their organizations, check out this Net 2.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. low-income household. They’re a busy place.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 25, 2017

In the age of conference calls and digital communication, the value of face-to-face interactions is often overlooked. Not only is it easier to clearly communicate in-person using body language and other nonverbals, but people are much more likely to remember a face than, say, a name or an email address. Why face time is so important.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. Digital Divide Will Be Bridged in 2016. Social Media and Fundraising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A key with an n with 232 digits (768 bits) was factored in 2009 using many years of computing time and dozens of computers spread around the world. Although p and q are very, very large numbers hundreds of digits long, only a relative small range of possible numbers were being used to choose p and q. Heninger et al. are examining.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 1, 2021

Investing in an all-in one, fully connected system is your best bet to ensure you have all of the tools you need and that they all speak the same language. Effective grant management software comes with a few key features: document library, calendar tools, and reporting capabilities.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Free webinars and other educational materials can keep you up-to-date with fundraising trends and best practices in the digital era. Nonprofit Library.

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