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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

a technology and media venture based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Previously she was an independent consultant working with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the 2012 NATO Summit, Chicago Ideas Week, news platform Syria Deeply and FEM Inc.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2008

Great article on Tim O'Reilly in the Los Angeles Times. 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.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

The resemblance to Los Angeles was striking: this is another community created in a desert land that tends to haze and smog (lacking rain, I guess). This one small town seemed to have been carved out of the rock in the middle of a mountain range.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. So, in Hong Kong and in Beijing we saw sensory stimulation rooms for these children. We visited the English language classroom.

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MARCH 18, 2005

The CSUN conference in Los Angeles is the biggest U.S. disability technology event of the year. We are having a great time showing off Bookshare.org, and announced our newest collection of Spanish language books

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MARCH 22, 2006

This is the big disability technology week: I'm at the CSUN conference in Los Angeles right now to give a couple of talks and have a bunch of meetings. This means that people with disabilities can get the daily newspaper at the same time as everybody else, and in the form they prefer: Braille, large print or synthetic speech.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

SocialCoding4Good will be attending Mashable’s Social Good Summit in New York September 22-24, and A Billion+ Change’s Envisioning the Future of Corporate Service event in Los Angeles on October 1. We’d love to meet you there!

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