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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.

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Questions to Ask During the RFP Process

Whole Whale

What is their background or experience in search engine optimization? What considerations does the agency give to web accessibility ? Will the agency have a role in migrating existing website content? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? How will invoicing work?

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The Ultimate Checklist to Choose a Web Vendor

Care2

What is their background or experience in search engine optimization? What considerations does the agency give to web accessibility ? Will the agency have a role in developing the website content? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Subject matter expertise. Aesthetics. If so, what?

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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

I was looking for ways to be accessible to our constituents, grow our audience, and virally promote our content, so Twitter seemed like the way to go. Really, I think that the people who have said that Twitter is hard to access but once you start doing it, you find its usefulness to you have it right on. All rights reserved.

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SXSW Panels Offer Key Advice to Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Measure your reach not the “get”: With the huge opportunity social media offers to access new audiences in creative ways, it also presents a major “ownership” hurdle that is forcing nonprofits to shift the way they think about traditional acquisition. March 30, 2009 | rabia Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Doing a quick search on the word "symphony" on Facebook turned up more than 500 individuals. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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