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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011.

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Losing Mobile Users? Easy Mobile-Website Builder Can Help You: New TechSoup Program

Tech Soup

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. We Have a Solution. prompt numbers.

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Building a Better World

Tech Soup

BetterWorld Telecom - a provider of audio conferencing, VoIP services, and donated phones for. nonprofits and public libraries through TechSoup - is a company founded with a vision of. Executive Build 2011. With BetterWorld audio conferencing and VoIP. giving back and engaging with the communities we serve.

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What is Microsoft Lync?

Tech Soup

It also has automatic audio and video detection, so you can quickly add USB devices such as telephone handsets, headsets, speakers, microphones, and web cameras. As of this publication date, TechSoup doesn't have a donation arrangement for offering Lync Online to nonprofits and libraries. Additional Resources.

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Creating Digital Signs at Butler Library

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Matthew Maine, computer support technician at the Butler Area Public Library in Pennsylvania, and originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries Blog. Technological advances are forcing constant changes in libraries. throughout the library via LCD television monitors. across the nation.

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