Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
It's a well established fact that reading with your kids helps give them a lifelong love of books, for instance. Then please share your experience on Bookshare's Facebook page. Tags: Reading facebook Bookshare National Family Literacy Day literacy. We're also sharing some of our favorite reads on Bookshare. Happy reading!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 21, 2009
Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook had the tough gig of presenting a lunch keynote outside under a tent in lower Sproul Plaza (mucho noise and people talking). She was much more on Facebook marketing message, but of course that's her role at FB. Lots of enthusiastic FB users in the audience helped make her points.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 10, 2011
He talked about the opportunities and challenges he sees ahead, especially as technology tools continue to be adopted by more of the human rights community, from cell phones to Facebook. If the groups we're working with don't succeed, then we don't succeed.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 10, 2013
From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley. That’s what inspired me to start Benetech , a nonprofit tech company, over 20 years ago.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 17, 2012
I feel fortunate to work with a set of employees who are technically competent yet very friendly and helpful. As for this project, with the limited time frame, I have limited the social network integration to Facebook and Twitter. I have realized that Benetech is indeed “technology serving humanity.”
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 12, 2008
From the story: He is urging young entrepreneurs and engineers to stop making some of the sillier software that lets Facebook users throw virtual sheep at their friends or download virtual beer on iPhones, and instead start making a real difference in the world. Great article on Tim O'Reilly in the Los Angeles Times.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
I think of it as being similar to the social networking sites (like FaceBook or LinkedIn) where people have more control on what information gets shared with whom. Some folks are passionate about literacy and helping people with disabilities, others about human rights, and still others about the environment.
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