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Heading out on the road

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Tags: Rains Brazil Bookshare. As I headed out the door, I ran into Scott Rains and we had a picture taken of Scott in his Brazil jersey (after the U.S., I'm a big Brazil fan too). Scott is helping with the Bookshare volunteer community as a Benetech Fellow. I can tell World Cup fever is really hitting!

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Volunteer to get a day at Disney!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tags: volunteer Disney Bookshare. Volunteers who do a chapter's worth of image descriptions for a student textbook will get their day pass. The program will stop when a million certificates have been given out for all sorts of volunteer opportunities.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As Gerardo explained in a recent blog post , Schema.org—the organization that keeps a list of agreed-upon tags that all search engines can use in common—adopted our proposed standards, so that search engine users can refine their searches to easily find accessible learning resources online.

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Yes, I wear a suit sometimes

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Tags: ice educators keynote fruchterman. I keynoted the Illinois Computing Educators - ICE conference recently, and someone posted a picture on Flickr. It's fun to go out and tell stories to hundreds of people. Mainly, I talk about where Benetech comes from.

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Jed Emerson: Steady Returns With Social Impact

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Tags: impact investing blended value Jed Emerson REDF. His point is: The little secret of this past year's capital crisis is that while many mainstream investments incurred significant losses in value, one category remained steady--with some investors significantly outperforming the mainstream market. It's called impact investing.

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Disabled Students Need Accessible Books: On Huffpo!

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Tags: print disabilities HuffPo volunteer Bookshare. HuffPo recently published my first post, Disabled Students Need Accessible Books. It's great to be able to bring this kind of attention to our work at Bookshare helping students with print disabilities.

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Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

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Tags: social entrepreneurs Skoll SWF SWF10 social enterprise. [Plenty of other things would help, like education and more political openness, but successful business enteprises and jobs would be a great start!] I know I'll be watching to see if Raja's bold idea takes root: seems like a promising approach to sustainable social good.

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