Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. Don’t create a global Swiss registry of nonprofit organizations qualified to use exceptions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. The Bookshare breakthrough was to put our users in charge of the collection; we created a crowd-sourced library built by and for the people it serves. copyright law.

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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. We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. No, we’re not being sued (and we want to keep it that way).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. 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. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. government and states like Texas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. 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. Accordingly, U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. Dara Westling.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

My TechSoup Global colleague Lewis Haidt was at the conference as well and penned Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy , which provides a good primer on what it is and how a nonprofit-centric sharing economy can benefit all of us. Where Are Nonprofits and Libraries on Sharing? Why Nonprofits and Libraries Should Be Central.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Social Misfits Media and Aegis Media in the UK have just launched a new free online social media guide for charities to help relieve our perplexity.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. All RCI customers can now call 800-939-6000 if you have trouble with your RCI equipment to get the help you need. A Bit About How RCI Started. With a catalog.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. Tell us how your mission is made possible with Symantec's help — for a chance to win awesome prizes! Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., What is your nonprofit's mission? Share your story. Official Rules. August 29, 2016.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S. entered the Progressive Era.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. Thanks to e-book technology, Bookshare today serves over 300,000 students with a collection of more than 300,000 accessible books – the world’s largest library of its kind. What can be done today to build this accessible tomorrow?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Bookshare is terrific, but it’s fundamentally a separate system where a specialized library becomes the primary source of books for its patrons. Fast forward to today.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. The campaign object in Salesforce helps with monitoring Google spend, keeping it safely below membership income. Destiny Rescue.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So, Kevin, we appreciate your help. . The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. But if they feel like their peers are giving, it really helps tremendously. . So he created this organization that builds libraries, schools, girls’ scholarships around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Sometimes it helps to have a colleague or blogging buddy. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

This blog post will help you get prepared by arming you with planned giving terms and examples to help you carry the conversation! In a more global setting however, ROI has non-monetary objectives such as public awareness of a product or new sales leads. Ten percent (10%) of my estate to Middletown Library.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer , John Wilson and Marc Musik, 62 Law & Contemp. Autumn 1999)" There are so many resources available to help you give time, money, skills and stuff, it could probably fill a phone book. Things: Find a Goodwill or public library near you to donate clothes and books. Give blood.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. Because at the rate we''re going, we''ll end up with a Treaty that doesn''t help the blind, but instead advances the intellectual property agenda of the MPAA. Why does this matter? It would be an absolute shame for this to happen. under a Treaty.

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Global Giving

MAY 11, 2018

This definition is broader than past privacy laws, and it may impact data that previously was not subject to regulations. As a result, many nonprofit organizations are considering a global approach. You need to have a lawful basis for processing information. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). The Marrakesh Treaty.

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