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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

million downloads of accessible books through its online library, to over 200,000 people with disabilities such as blindness and severe dyslexia. We already collect a great deal of information like which books are downloaded most, but our delivery model has been similar to that of print textbooks: “Here it is; hope it’s useful!”

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can upload to their host or you can download a.swf file. Update about embedding from Laura Whitehead : Jing saves as an SWF, which is easily embedable using something called the SWF object. Get the bit of code you need here What is SWF? The project will eventually turn into something else. It is very easy to use.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. I rendered ten different versions (6 in SWF with different audio sampling and video frame rates and sizes) and 2 in Quicktime and 2 in WMF.) Humor always comes in handy! -I My work flow.