Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. This year’s theme was “Worlds connect @ your library.” Bookshare is a unique library. at its core.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S. That treaty should replicate the successful copyright exception here in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. copyright law.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Some collections stewards, steeped as they are in professional artifact-protection standards, are reluctant to shift toward the more open version of institutional access that engagement advocates promote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! What is the school signup process for Bookshare?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Nonprofits who work primarily with policy still should document themselves because they have access to experts on their topic. 2) Create a Video Library Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 , stressed the importance of creating a video library. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The idea was to give an inside view of the inner workings of the Walker. Everyone is a Curator. Over the next six months we???ll

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. Nonprofits and social entrepreneurs are making access to sustainable food easier with shortcodes, social networks, advocacy tools, and location-based platforms. Great post. All rights reserved.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Accessibility. Copyright © 2008. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

My primary goal is to get the ideas out there, not to make money, so if someone wants to read the book online for free, that's great. Also, my whole career is predicated on a structure where I give away ideas on the blog and then people hire me for money. Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

The goal of the treaty is to make it possible for people who are blind, or have other print disabilities, to get access to the books they need for education, employment and inclusion in society--no matter where they live. We are at a point where accessibility can and should be the default mode for all books. under a Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2009

The following is the email I received from Kareem Dale in its entirety (and I have his permission to distribute it): Access to information and ideas is essential for personal and professional growth and full engagement in a democratic society. We are committed to building a world that no longer puts up unnecessary barriers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I had a joint meeting (both Republicans and Democrats) with the key Senate Judiciary Committee staff who are the copyright experts, and learned a lot about the process. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. Student privacy. Enough said!

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