Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. We did not look at this as legal experts, but rather as organizations that are dedicated to serving people with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. government and states like Texas.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

From eBooks to webinars, there’s a heaping handful of other ways to raise money online. Whatever content you provide, it should always be doing two things: giving value to your audience and pointing toward your organization. The post All-In-One Nonprofit Marketing Library (Link Roundup) appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing.

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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

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. That makes it legal in these countries for people with these disabilities, and the organizations that serve them, to make accessible versions of books without having to get permission from the author or publisher.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

This is especially true given that so many nonprofit and humanitarian groups are collecting private information that, even though intended to help, could inadvertently put the vulnerable populations they serve at risk of harm from repressive regimes, organized crime, and increasingly corporations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. delegation signing the treaty.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you work for a nonprofit organization, you’ve likely heard that Giving Tuesday is one of the most important days of the year. Gift matching programs are designed to drive support for your organization without even asking your donors for more of their own dollars. Your Best Peer-To-Peer Fundraising Campaign [eBook].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is organized as a nonprofit, but run like a business. Whether you are a nonprofit leader with a track record of using technology to improve outcomes, or a for-profit tech leader with a history of commitment to social justice organizations, we want to see a commitment to both sides. You’ve come to the right place: Benetech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

Most importantly, he walked me through how to frame the goal of any agreement with another organization, and to think through scenarios of how it might go sour. I laughed, because at the time Calera was an accidentally nonprofit tech company: it was organized as a for-profit but was still losing (a lot of) money.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For example, one proposed change to the Treaty draft would make it the responsibility of an exporting library to need to know details about the publishing status of a book in another country before we could fill a request from a bona fide person with a print disability from that country. For what am I advocating?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re not an advocacy organization, but our technical insights are in great demand from advocates. But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. As the most internationally engaged library for people with disabilities, we’re trying to find funding and partnerships to help bring both Bookshare’s collection and technology to bear on this problem.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

And, Benetech is committed as an organization to all of these six principles. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. We’re pleased to contribute to today’s theme, celebrating the fifth of the six principles: Fair Use Rights. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. copyright law. We don't have to pay a royalty, and we don't have to ask for permission.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

It also lets you discover and donate to organizations involved in disaster response work, and find opportunities to volunteer. Donate money or requested goods to selected disaster relief organizations. Featured Emergency Response Organizations for Donating and Volunteering. All that in one little app. Start using the app.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. By proper tech planning I mean the things that TechSoup for Libraries Technology Planning Cookbook talks about: Pulling together a committee of stakeholders to serve on a planning committee. How do you currently use technology?

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2022

Reach out to donors based on their interests with your organization for best results. Promo.com offers an extensive library of footage for videos so that you can make a polished video for social media and other sources. Instead, donors want to feel like you know what motivates them to give to your nonprofit. Give us a try.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

I often recommend you look to your local community for grant writing courses offered by community foundations and libraries and those available in the continuing education offices of universities and community colleges. Keep in mind there are many nonprofit organizations asking for funding. Another resource is Candid Learning.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Between drawn-out and FOMO marketing, arranging your topics, organizing sessions, and getting your speakers to agree to present, these things will take a lot more time than you might expect. Remind them that you have created an asset library, so sharing requires only a few clicks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

The common thread of all of these big hairy audacious goals is that they are measurable – and they involve ecosystems of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of organizations businesses and government agencies. He took on leading the EPUB commercial ebook standard body – and now there’s no need for a separate standard for people with disabilities.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Luckily, there are plenty of free nonprofit resources online for your organization to take advantage of. 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! Nonprofit Library. Qgiv Resources.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Between drawn-out and FOMO marketing, arranging your topics, organizing sessions, and getting your speakers to agree to present, these things will take a lot more time than you might expect. Remind them that you have created an asset library, so sharing requires only a few clicks.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

For instance, it would be unreasonable to expect that you could personally call 7,000 donors to thank them and provide them with an organization update. No one really wants to read yet another thank you letter that begins with, “On behalf of XYZ organization, I’d like to thank you for your recent gift.” Take a Cue from Major Gifts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Benetech, is a leading nonprofit organization based in Silicon Valley. We’re getting very worried that our organization and the people we serve: people with print disabilities (i.e., And, if we’re worried, a lot of other good organizations should start getting worried! Endangering Human Rights Activists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. There are projects from Vietnam to Australia to the Netherlands to the US, from libraries, museums, science centers, zoos, state parks, and art centers. Want to buy a book ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. The first was the ebook. Fundamentally, the Arkenstone Reader allowed blind people to create their own personal ebook as a text file that could be read in something like Microsoft Word.

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