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A Bookshare Valentine’s Day Love Story

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She was a proofreader in Ohio who saw a new Welsh name, Evan Reese, on the Bookshare volunteer list. She said that he had the persistence of a used car salesman, but he finally won her shy permission to fly to Ohio to meet. They live together in Ohio now with two cute, affectionate, house dogs.

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential. With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college.

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Public speaking for change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

on choosing to be a nonprofit or a for-profit, based on my For Love or Lucre SSIR article 9/26 Kicking off the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series 10/1 Speaking at the Disability Rights Advocates board meeting 10/5 Duke Fuqua MBA High Tech Club Panel (Cloud Computing /Social Entrepreneurship panels) 10/5 Duke CASE Award for Enterprising (..)

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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. We’d love to meet you there!

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Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, won the nonfiction prize for "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age," is a 1920s courtroom drama about the murder trial of Dr.

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