Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Guest post by Betsy Beaumon, President, Benetech We are seeking visionary leaders to join Benetech in applying technology to advance the rights of disadvantaged people around the world. We operate at the intersection of technology and social impact, and therefore our ideal candidates will demonstrate these dual interests and experiences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People with print disabilities around the world have a right to high-quality ebooks that they can read with assistive technology. These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. These texts will be available in early 2012.?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. ” Project Homeless Connect also uses Twitter in similar ways to connect homeless people in the city with the care they need. Free Microsoft Technical eBooks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As I was thinking about this, it became clear that now is the time to look beyond the tools for social change that we’ve built and consider the frameworks that guide us in moving them forward and in identifying the next projects to work on. We are always exploring new projects with the hope of launching a new product each year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

She also said that they learn about new technology mostly by word of mouth throughout their church network. Church Technology Listservs. particularly interesting like her piece 4 Technology Options that Might Kill the Church Bulletin. Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks. ChurchTechToday.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Every year, it spends over €30 million to further this aim by building social inclusion programmes and campaigns for small-scale, community-led projects in the Netherlands and the Dutch islands of the Caribbean, and providing opportunities for them to learn from each other. Bringing People Together. A Critical Supporting Role.

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Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

How might this cash projection inform some decisions during the first half of the year? Today’s technology makes it fairly easy to build a good financial dashboard. Just a few graphs make a big difference. When you supplement the numbers in your financial reports with 6-8 standard graphs, you will find it transformative. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Most recently, PCL has been a trailblazer in providing mobile technology to their patrons, redefining what library services means. “With shrinking municipal budgets and nonstop technological advancement, public libraries need to be customer-driven and ensure their programs keep pace with patrons’ evolving needs.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 24, 2022

Engaging Audiences using Mobile Friendly Technology. Transitioning traditional Silent Auctions into Mobile friendly online bidding , integrating Text to Donate , and creating Project Websites sparked lively conversation during the APEX 2022 Conference. Three Session Topics Fundraising Conference Attendees Couldn’t Stop Talking About.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Much like any new project or renovation, a transition to Salesforce could have you thinking about the various pros and cons of making this change. Much like any new project or renovation, a transition to Salesforce could have you thinking about the various pros and cons of making this change. Get a 360-Degree View of Constituents.

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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. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Direct service can teach you a lot about digital strategy. Save the Date!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). and we needed more help.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

These are my links for January 16th through February 6th: How Twitter is Being Used By Companies | Mobile Technology in TAFE - Great post from Sue Waters about how different companies are using Twitter. Interesting to compare different styles and approaches. Check it out! Here are some thoughts to help improve your back and forth."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 18, 2007

The milestones are going to be coming ever faster, now that we have the Bookshare.org for Education project (funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. We'll be working for Guam to help set up a system for assistive technology and media for disabled students with nine Pacific island entities. Big challenges.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Are you trying to connect local business leaders for a particular project? A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Provide an eBook or some sort of content that is relevant to the topics discussed during networking sessions, for example. . What do you hope to do? Choose a Virtual Event Platform.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Digital transformation is, to put it simply, rethinking how our organizations operate through the use of digital technology. Throughout our sector, each and every nonprofit is in a different place when it comes to using digital technologies and foundational data. Question: How will digital transformation help you to diversify revenue?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

About a year ago we came up with the idea for an ambitious project to help us better understand the state of private school web navigation, and how schools are responding to the demands of web usability, responsive web design and more. Nonprofit News k12 nonprofit technology Private Schools responsive design web design Website Navigation'

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Some of this research is highlighted in Blackbaud’s CSR 2020: Experts Look Ahead eBook, which includes insights from a number of CSR thought leaders. Examples of project-based fundraising include: Casual Fridays. Employees want tools that offer them choice and that help them seamlessly share their cause with the world. Giving Days.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2012

In between rounds of Flukey Ball and deep fried sticks of butter, we've managed to wrangle some highlights for you: from a chance to win a $5,000 grant and an ebook collection to free and interactive fundraising tools, check out what your fellow NTENers have been up to lately.

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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. Is it any wonder that proper technology planning is something we have a hard time getting to? Conducting a technology assessment and inventory of current software and hardware assets. How do you currently use technology?

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so. Meet Carolyn Appleton!

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Are you trying to connect local business leaders for a particular project? A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it. Provide an eBook or some sort of content that is relevant to the topics discussed during networking sessions, for example. . What do you hope to do? Choose a Virtual Event Platform.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Here are four more steps your team will want to incorporate into your digital community building: Scalability Creativity Urgency Amplification effect For examples and stories of how all of these steps are integral to digital community building join us at the NTEN 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, Saturday, April 13 at 10:30 a.m.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners. 500,000 Grant Winners.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 28, 2015

In fact, many firms use pro bono projects, on their own or in conjunction with groups like The Taproot Foundation , Common Impact or CatchaFire , as a part of their high potential employee programs. They are the potential faces of your next pro bono project. There are people out there looking to help.

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