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Introducing the 2013 Communities of Impact

NTEN

As Amy wrote recently, many of you have told us that 2013 will be the year you really tackle the data at your organizations. (If The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year. Smartwatches.

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Getting Close to a Treaty!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The session was pretty successful, in that the Committee called for an extraordinary general assembly meeting in December with the aim of calling a diplomatic conference to finalize the Treaty for the Visually Impaired in June 2013. The rest of this post looks at this draft treaty in its current form.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. also reports some news that effect libraries. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. A 3D graphic test on paper substrate of a circuit diagram. We’d love to meet you there!

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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. This has led to advancements that benefit everyone. Luckily, we know some people who are into that stuff.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. " The Role of Libraries.

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