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JUNE 23, 2014

We even convinced schema.org—the standards setting body for the big search engines—to adopt a standard to make it easier to discover accessible materials online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Search the Web for illegal copies of Bookshare books. We run regular searches on the Web for Bookshare content -- much like publishers and authors do. According to our research, and reports from publishers and authors, we see little evidence that our users are violating their commitments to respect copyright.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

In addition, Bookshare regularly searches the web for illegal copies of content originating from Bookshare user downloads and suspends the account of users found to have been the source of such content, as well as issuing take-down notices to the websites hosting such content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Without having to do an advanced search in the romance section to read it, you have our story, one that wouldn’t have begun if Bookshare hadn’t welcomed our volunteer contribution and given us an email list, a means of pooling talent and helping one another.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Not all such stops actually result in a search or arrest. I joined the NYCLU team, where we worked on data collected by the New York Police Department about their “stop and frisk” practices. Stop and frisk” is the common name used to reference police stopping a pedestrian.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

One of the best quotes was the search for "contribution, not attribution." But, if we only measure activities, we could find ourselves being "successful" while the species we're trying to protect goes extinct or the biome we're trying to protect loses viability and diversity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

So, if you’re searching for great data entry services for outsourcing, make your money work twice as hard like we do. We get great services from Daproim, and we know that our money is also supporting the development of the new Africa through its smart yet disadvantaged students!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

Social entrepreneurship is a new field whose actors will all benefit from a systematic search for best practices for developing, sustaining, and scaling innovative and effective responses to social needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. Right now I''m in Oxford, England, for the annual Skoll World Forum! Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

We have also begun searching for a new senior executive to lead our Human Rights Program. I want to especially highlight the role of the Oak Foundation in supporting this transition and continuing to support both Benetech and HRDAG for the next two years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. Google, who has been sued by the same publishers for alleged copyright violations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Google Grants (Google.org) also did a lot of work on our Google Adwords, and searching for "Miradi" on Google brings up our ad, too. We've just put Google Analytics on the site, and are playing with it. So, feel free to visit and check it out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Consider Google and other search engine advertising (or see if Google will partner on a Google Grant). Actively optimize for search engines so that the people who need to find the information will. • The biggest enemy of a Clearinghouse is irrelevancy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 10, 2005

Jay was particularly interested in making the search capabilities of Bookshare.org better than our existing simple author or title searches. This is something we have been wanting to do for a long time: something more like the advanced search of Google or Amazon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Steffon Middleton and Jessica Pinto have both mastered the art of searching and downloading Bookshare’s accessible texts. Steffon, who attends Gadsden Community College in Gadsden, Alabama is a straight-A student who has made his college deans list each semester.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It was a rewarding project that took us to many wonderful recommendation sources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile! The number one request from our users was for an iPad/iPhone app that would enable them to easily read on the go.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2007

If someone is searching on the terms "Books blind," they are looking for something like Bookshare.org. Because of a lack of budget for marketing, it's hard for potential clients to find out about the services that are available to them. Google advertising is highly tuned.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 25, 2004

Over the next few months, we'll be searching for new employees and fellows to join us in saving the world with technology. It's time to grow the Benetech team again! Our first position to be formally posted is for the head of our Bookshare.org project.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Technology we take for granted in English nowadays needs much more development, including optical character recognition, data entry, searching and voice synthesis. Leaning almost entirely on India's technology skill base, the work needed to make the other 22 official Indian languages accessible starts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2007

Jim stewarded the Alliance during our CEO search, and I think turned over our association well positioned for future expansion and success. And of course, it's the people who make all of this possible. First, I'd like to acknowledge the dedication and contributions of Jim McClurg.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2006

But searching for the historical truth still carries risk for those involved. "It is a hard thing to think about," said Juanita. "It It took place years ago, but it still hurts." Juanita says she hopes that the archive might contain clues about her father's disappearance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 28, 2005

It can be browsed, bookmarked, and searched with ease; and, if paired with a program like JAWS or Kurzweil, easily lends itself to annotation and outlining. It can be read in large print, with synthesized speech, or in refreshable or embossed Braille. Bookshare builds citizenship in two fundamental ways.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2004

But, we're thinking about equity-like vehicles that pass the nonprofit legal requirements and yet provide something for social investors in search of a financial return. In our case, it is donations and reinvested income that we typically use. That's pretty interesting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The user—or someone they designate—can later retrieve their data, and can search, analyze and report on the information, using the Martus client software. The data is automatically encrypted on the mobile phone, and when being sent to the server, so it is protected in case the phone is lost, stolen or confiscated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

In doing a Google search on the term, Harvard Business School has an ad listing: “Social Enterprise Programs for Senior Managers. It should be noted that Google has more than five million instances of websites using the phrase “social enterprise.” Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We can share that we have multiple K-12 organizations using Bookshare in those counties, as far as we understand the results of a search for those areas in our organization database. Unfortunately, we can’t share specific school district data as it is confidential.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Benetech was no longer just what I was going to do next, but a new phase in the search for innovative ways to apply maximum leverage to solving pressing problems on a scale well beyond a single project. That funding, along with backing from Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Network, was the rocket fuel for what Benetech has become today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 8, 2007

Spec out and build an HTTP-based protocol whereby developers would write applications that serve the same kind of navigational, search, browsing and download options common to web sites, but instead for screen readers. Could be reapplied for other projects afterwards 6.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

Sure, not as important as search and rescue, food and water, but I think it's up there with healing from the incident. - Any IT setup has to be distributed as we saw so many single point data sources taken out by Hurricane Katrina, with no alternate location for getting same data stream. Information management on a large scale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 25, 2010

When Microsoft’s Bing search engine indexes a new image file on the Web, they run the same software against that new image, calculate the hash value and check it against the database of known “bad” hash values. And then, Bing won’t serve up that image if it’s requested in a search result.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

Easy enough to use Ashoka's handy-dandy search engine at [link] Africa: 236 Asia: 547 Europe: 190 Middle East & North Africa: 34 North America: 232 South America: 476 Global: 10 Even if we throw all of global into North America and Europe, and not worrying about the fact that the majority of North American Ashoka fellows are actually in Mexico(!)

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