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Tim O'Reilly's challenge

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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

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Total Engagement

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And then they go into the modern workplace, which is frequently as stultifying as these virtual worlds are thrilling. Read and Reeves are convinced that at least some smart workplaces of the future are going to adapt some of the ways of the games to more fully engage their employees and become more effective as economic organizations.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview.

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National Library Week and Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our volunteer list is long, but the active volunteers get to know one another virtually very quickly. The vast majority are members as well as volunteers; it’s the “virtual” neighborhood library. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 Bookshare is no different. at its core.

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Market Failure in Global Health Technologies

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These have the benefits of being purely virtual products, without the need to have inventory or warehouses. I am not yet convinced that this is something Benetech should do, though. Although our social enterprise skills are strong, our specialty has been social applications of information technology.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. It’s of course this last capability, flexibility, that is so powerful for people with disabilities.

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The Gift of Reading, a Circle of Life

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They are the one who understand best what it means to have any one of these books available to them on the library’s virtual shelves, anytime, anywhere.

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