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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Developer Community Manager, Emma Irwin We are also delighted to have aboard Developer Community Manager Emma Irwin, who guides the SocialCoding4Good volunteers as they join and contribute to the growth and impact of our nonprofit software partners’ open source efforts. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2

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JUNE 30, 2014

of Martus —our free, open source, secure information collection and management software—which includes major updates and usability improvements. Last week, the Benetech Human Rights Program released version 4.5

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JUNE 8, 2015

You are the leader we are looking for if you see the combination of social good and businesslike management as the answer to pressing problems throughout the world. Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Anna Berns, longtime Program and Project Manager and now a Director at Benetech, will continue to oversee our human rights field outreach staff and manage Martus product development (including our new mobile Martus tool, which is already working on my Android phone).

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Many thanks to all our financial and programmatic partners, collaborators and supporters, volunteers, and, of course, to Betsy Beaumon, General Manager and Vice President of the Benetech Global Literacy Program, and the entire Global Literacy team!

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MARCH 13, 2009

Betsy Beaumon, formerly of BEA Systems and numerous other high tech roles (including founding her own social enterprise in the 1990s), has joined us as our new Vice President and General Manager of Literacy Programs. I'm particularly excited about Benetech's continued strengthening of our management team.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

But the NHRC is developing an information management system that uses our Martus software to keep their data more secure. To manage this, we recommended that Zonal staff use Martus in ‘offline’ mode (that is, not connecting to the server to back up data) until a reliable Internet connection was available.

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JULY 5, 2008

One of the coolest has been the reaction to our brand new environmental project management software, Miradi. So, spread the news to folks you know who need project management tools for environmental projects! There's so many cool things going on at Benetech. Miradi just launched and we're busy signing up users!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects. Now she’s a Special Project Coordinator for the Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans Guam Coastal Management Program where she uses Miradi to prioritize threats to Guam ecosystems.

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MAY 15, 2012

The Center is managed by Benetech in partnership with the WGBH National Center for Accessible Medi a (NCAM) and US Fund for DAISY (USFDAISY). The texts include Bookshare’s well-established digital rights management (DRM) protections which use electronic fingerprints in addition to legal agreements.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

HRP director Dr. Patrick Ball developed a plan to collect a multi-stage random sample of the documents and secure the sample data with Benetech's Martus information management tool for careful examination. In the case of Benetech, credibility and technical competence are guaranteed.”

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AUGUST 6, 2010

Raja is a seasoned business executive with senior level experience in multinationals (Coca-Cola, B&W/BAT, BOC Group, Societe Generale) in Europe, Asia and in multiple Middle East/North African countries (MENA), as an entrepreneur and as Managing Director of one of the oldest retail groups in the MENA region.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our strong cryptography technology, Martus —a free, open source, secure information management tool-makes it easier for groups working with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

If you wish to nominate someone, please contact Alisa Moore, our Volunteer Program Manager , this week! Each February, Bookshare staff will accept nominations for the Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship throughout the first two weeks of the month and will announce the recipient. We miss you, Mayrie.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They have just released their management plan (in English). It's easy to forget how technology spreads. I just heard about the use of Miradi and the Open Standards in the Axios Delta in Greece. What a thrill to see our software used to figure out how to conserve an exciting nature area I've only just now learned about!

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AUGUST 19, 2009

Our meeting facilitator, Bob Glavin (longtime advisor to Benetech, teaches at USF and helps many other nonprofits and foundations), told me and the senior managers to not talk and to simply listen. There was much food for thought, as our management team develops our plan further for presentation and discussion with our board of directors.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

She wants to see every piece of content that is born digital be born accessible. We all want the same ebook that people without disabilities buy (sorry, I mean license) to work perfectly well for people who are blind, physically disabled or dyslexic.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Our international Bookshare.org manager, Viji Dilip, recently wrote about making a change in what kind of capital equipment to get Worth Trust to help carry out their work: Strange as it may sound I grew up with hearing this often, "Everyone please save all your files now as the current will be going off in the next five minutes."

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

We're piloting our new Miradi.org website, which is our environmental project management software. Miradi (the new name of what we used to call the e-Adaptive Management software) has been in beta test for a while and we've gotten great feedback from all over the world from environmental practitioners.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

I’ve collected experience on various aspects such as: communication, delivering code on time, managing a project on GitHub, setting up milestones and issues, and completing them on time. When I’m looking down the road I have traveled, it has been a wonderful and fruitful experience.

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OCTOBER 26, 2008

It's exciting to see these results from the dedication of Viji Dilip, our Bookshare International Program Manager, and our Indian partners. And, the Hindustan Times also talked about our Online Library for the Blind.

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MARCH 14, 2012

How would that change the flow of data into Martus and allow our partners to secure and manage more data than ever before? We agreed that creating a true ecosystem would radically change the relevance of Martus to its users’ broader information management reality.

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JUNE 23, 2014

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology. Bookshare employs our Seven-Point Digital Rights Management Plan to encourage our users to respect the rights of copyright holders. uses the term "Competent Authority" to describe these professionals).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

You can read more about how this project will create lasting impact in India in a blog post by Betsy Beaumon , VP and General Manager of our Global Literacy Program. We expect to significantly improve access to books that blind people in India need for their education, employment and inclusion in society.

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MAY 18, 2008

He also has learned how to build electronics and program in assembly language, as well as being the sort of person who manages to convince anybody who's anybody to join his effort to bring equity to access to print.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

But, the weight of evidence is that they can associate learning management system data with an increased likelihood of failure, and then intervene. For example, a really bright student who can pull everything together just before the exams might present with a red light a third of the way into the quarter, but still be ok.

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JULY 5, 2013

The treaty also allows us to work around digital rights management and associated technological protection measures to ensure access for our users. Me delivering Benetech''s closing statement to the conference.

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MARCH 13, 2014

To make strong security accessible to the community involved in human rights documentation, we developed Martus —a free, open source, secure tool for collecting and managing sensitive information.

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APRIL 22, 2010

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on.

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MAY 14, 2011

Our Environmental team is helping to bring results-based management to the conservation and biodiversity field. We are database experts who help to answer the key question in human rights: who did what to whom? We are expert witnesses in war crimes trials, helping bring an end to impunity.

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AUGUST 14, 2010

My brother, Dan Fruchterman, is a senior engineering manager at a major aerospace firm. So, Rich asked me what I thought. My response was that while I wasn't a mechanical engineer, I certainly knew someone who was. I mentioned it to Dan and his response was that it should be straightforward.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

A guest Beneblog by Viji Dilip International Bookshare Program Manager Every morning braving the heavy Chennai traffic Maria wheels into Worth Trust to start her work as a proof reader. Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills.

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DECEMBER 29, 2005

Bookshare.org needs a dynamic person to manage and drive the expansion of our collection, managing both automated and volunteer processes to bring more books to more people with disabilities around the world.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

The same article was on the cover of the Palo Alto Daily News with a great picture of Claire O'Brien, our newly promoted Collection Development Manager, scanning a book. We issued our first official press release about the award and immediately had a great article in the San Jose Mercury News. 99,999 more books to go!

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Expanding to meet global need brings a number of new challenges, including collection development for new audiences, gaining author and publisher permissions for worldwide distribution of materials, and forming partnerships with organizations that can spread the word about Bookshare and manage membership and customer support outside of the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating. After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go.

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