Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

While I was at the ATIA conference in Florida, our Director of Marketing was in Washington DC at another conference. We recently obtained the ability to directly download books from the national accessible textbook repository for those states who appoint us to do that for the disabled students of their state.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Janice and I are heading out to Florida this week for the NIMAS meeting on the new national digital textbook repository and the ATIA disability technology conference. Janice is an experienced executive from the media and technology industries, and I am quite excited to have a senior executive adding her perspective in our operations!

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare is participating at the National Federation of the Blind’s National Convention in Orlando, Florida on July 1-6, 2013 and at the American Council of the Blind’s 52nd Annual National Conference & Convention in Columbus, Ohio on July 4-12, 2013. Please join us in realizing this “radical” future! We’d love to meet you there!

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You Can Help Us Strengthen the Social Safety Net!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We need major philanthropic funding to take this effort to the next level, beyond pilots in California and Florida , to make this kind of information readily available in every community. Meaningful use of data in research, analysis, and decision-making. The safety net is too important to remain invisible!

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