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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

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DALLE , an image generation tool, Vision, an AI-driven image analysis tool, and Advanced Data Analysis provides the ability to upload a CSV file for AI to identify trends, create graphs, and generate reports. In a rapidly advancing tech world, waiting another 12 months to explore AI will mean missed opportunities.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Top 4 Web Hosting Providers for Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Website

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Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Expert Support – WordPress tech wizards go above and beyond to provide personalized support to you through live chat and email ticketing.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

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Benetech is a tech social enterprise. Our partners proofread the text, fixing mistakes and adding accessibility, and ship us the files back to add to our Bookshare library. I was able to demonstrate what we do with the files the students help generate, using our Read2Go application on an iPad. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

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In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it’s a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The ship has sailed.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

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The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? I was an expert witness in the case, and we’ve filed an amicus brief in the appeal. Human Rights Program policies: what are contingency/crisis plans for our staff? Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust. What’s next?

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How Nonprofit Board Members Can Help Their Boards with IT – Get Rid of IT!

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For guidance on this topic we turned to Pat Callihan, Executive Director of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact, and asked how nonprofit board members can help improve tech efficiency at their organizations. Tech Impact answered in this guest blog: Get Rid of IT! The files are stored on Microsoft’s servers.