Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Back in September, we posted a summary of App It Up's nonprofit and library apps survey. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. Nonprofits and libraries are interested in building their own apps, though they.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work. and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. Following tech and general news sources on the subject can help you keep informed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. in addition to the text?only

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Napster made me think of how peer-to-peer information sharing could help people with disabilities. said Stevie.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

How does your library address questions about Internet safety? essential skill to include in basic digital literacy instruction, but. essential skill to include in basic digital literacy instruction, but. Information about Internet safety, computer security, and. We will hear from the Monroe County Public Library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

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., as well as our Human Rights Program, which supports activists fighting injustice around the world.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

It addresses the thorny problem of bringing the 25 percent or so of people in the city who are still not participating in the information age to inclusion. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'

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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. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes. GCF Learn Free.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

As more and more information moves online, Americans without Internet access are increasingly being left behind. Nonprofits and libraries can use the infographic to help local government and other community leaders understand why increasing information technology access and use should be a critical community-wide goal.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We can only hope that we later have the time, information, and bandwidth to make new, better decisions. A volunteer resource manager at another human service nonprofit that we talked with noted the challenge that comes with the decision to suddenly embrace information and communication technologies. “I

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

What about that literacy initiative, or the Jobs Program? The most important part, of course, is that your information can be either completely private between portals, or completely shared, and anything in between. Need to focus on Elder Care? As I''ve said before, technology is finally approaching common sense.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On December 17, TechSoup hosted a SoupChat for nonprofits and libraries looking for more information on website design and hosting. A staffer from a small library listed a few popular services — WordPress, Wix, and Weebly — adding that she worried she might regret her decision six months down the road.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

information on low-cost computers and digital literacy training brings. Libraries can offer access to underserved patrons such as the elderly and disabled. As part of our i3 Internet Inclusion Initiative , Mobile Beacon has launched a new partnership with EveryoneOn , a. together the access, hardware, and training needed to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values. Experiment with different phrasings, keywords, and other factors to fine-tune your approach.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

The program aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet to the information age — or is it? A more informative place to look is Facebook’s white paper. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion tslibraryorg digital literacy'

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries? suggests just that.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

She's also the executive director of Community Technology Network , a nonprofit that brings information access and digital literacy to underserved Bay Area populations. Check out the Surdna tag at TechSoup for Libraries for more information.). As TechSoup's training and outreach manager, Kami manages TechSoup Talks!

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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. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

There is not much information on these low-cost computers but the company has indicated that it will probably be a wireless capable Windows 7 netbook with Norton Security Suite. Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. Anyone interested in finding out more on this program can call 1-855-8-INTERNET.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, released a free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and other working with youth locate free meal sites in the summer. The report examined how mobile devices are making an impact on literacy in developing countries. Anti-Phone-Theft Pledge.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Jodi Martin started the nonprofit, Information Technology Exchange, with her husband. “We We are a computer literacy project, 501 C3, and we help get computers into the hands of underprivileged, schools, non profits, and libraries,” said Martin, the executive director.' We have two programs. PC’s for Maine is our nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. The most recent state of privacy report found that Americans have "a deep lack of faith in organizations of all kinds, public or private, in protecting the personal information they collect."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

Since then, the Pew Research Center began an in-depth study on how Americans view privacy and sharing of personal information. The most recent state of privacy report found that Americans have "a deep lack of faith in organizations of all kinds, public or private, in protecting the personal information they collect."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. This little piece of background information provided something that other people could relate to and would want to share with their friends and family. Helena Library).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices.

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