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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It’s $.24

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily.

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Mobile Social Networks Get a Boost - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The new service allows users to make blog entries and comments, send and receive emails via their MySpace page, upload photos from their cellphones, and view or search for friends (videos will be supported sometime in 2007). Along with the increased use of SMS and mobile e-mail, people are sharing photos and video files. com , Inc.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. The first was the ebook.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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How Telecommunications Is Changing Work for Nonprofits

NTEN

Web conferencing allows audio and video interaction for a dialogue that seems more face-to-face with shared desktop viewing for reviewing documents and training. Instant messaging software allows file transfers and quick one-on-one text, audio, or video dialogue across large distances between employees.

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