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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. But then when we are asked to create a presentation, we fall into the same trap. Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

For example, Hurricane Katrina, in August of 2005, presented as a once-in-a-generation disaster. Header image: Smoke from wildfires in Quebec, Canada shrouds New York City on Wednesday, Jun 7, 2023. July was the hottest month in the hottest year in recorded history. This is no longer a slow-moving disaster. M1 Buses on Madison Av.

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The Tech Awards - Technology Benefiting Humanity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just attended the 2010 Tech Awards Gala Even. Awards were presented in five areas: Environment, Economic Development, Education, Equality and Health. Inside there were 20 stations set up with this year’s laureates. Talking with each of these passionate and amazing individuals was fascinating.

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Marketing and Engagement: Making the most of your Emails

Amy Sample Ward

Last week, I visited Omaha, Nebraska, and had a great time presenting to the PRSA Nebraska chapter. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Highlights.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match. Costs & Benefits.

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

Gyrus

Mobile Learning enables you to present smaller sized, interactive online learning to your employees without restricting them to a particular time or a place. Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. Mobile learning. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3