Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Department of State, about empowering the world’s billion people with disabilities ; or to talking with my peer Skoll Award winners about writing software for development, social justice and human rights needs—CGI 2013 was a nonstop flow of sessions and exchanges with partners on ways to leverage resources towards each organization’s mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We know, however, that we’ve only scratched the surface of meeting the global need for access to books and information. If giving disabled vets the gift of accessible reading resonates with you, I would definitely appreciate anything you can do to support our cause. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

We blew up the old approaches to converting inaccessible books into accessible equivalents. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming. With the old approaches, only a fraction of print materials was made available in accessible formats. copyright law.

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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. 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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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

What considerations does the agency give to web accessibility ? In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? What software do they use to manage their development? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Now, more than two decades later, social entrepreneurship is a hot global movement and Benetech has become the “go to” nonprofit software company in the heart of Silicon Valley. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. copyright law.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. intranet) access, AUPs are important to protect young users against. to or accessing the network. organization’s data if the user is an employee) when accessing or while. If software installation is required for a user’s. Lost productivity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I learned a lot about how blind people deal with Chinese: I thought it would be a difficult language to make accessible. In addition, Hong Kong passed a copyright exemption just in the last year, and the leaders in Hong Kong are considering how to utilize this new tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. Green Technology. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

What considerations does the agency give to web accessibility ? In their proposal, have they accounted for additional costs unrelated to staffing, such as stock photography or software subscriptions? Who will own the copyrights associated with their work on your web project? Do they have a relationship with hosting companies?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

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! That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. serving students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. And then they go away.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. However, access to the tools isn't enough. Reform Copyright.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. The Arkenstone reading tools became a key mode of independent access to books.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

Do not reference or identify any person, entity, trademark, copyright, or property in your post unless you and/or your group have received that person's/entity's permission in writing. Limit one submission per individual. Do not copy the work of any other person or entity. (b) b) Third Party Rights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. And then they go away.

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eBook Copyright China Law 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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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. In terms of editing, most computers younger than 8 years have some sort of editing software and, again, that is really all you need for most web videos. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot software: membership management , event. Accessibility. Take a tour!

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 14, 2022

Photo copyright: The National Aquarium. These seemingly basic upgrades fixed things that their previous donor prospect research software lacked, which often resulted in inaccurate donor information and led to asks where the prospect did not have nearly the level of wealth that the old system indicated they did. The Old Ways.

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Data Fundraising Baltimore Maryland 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? But I'd love to hear what you think I can and should do to make this book as useful and accessible to as many people as possible. Once I decided to self-publish, I set out to find the best option to do so. Did you know that most non-fiction books have the page numbers at the top?

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. All rights reserved.

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. All rights reserved.

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 10, 2008

frogloop: What are the primary considerations a nonprofit should make in choosing a fundraising software vendor? I can speak from first-hand experience that we at Artez provide access to the identical set of code/tools/platform to all of our clients; some nonprofits raise millions online, and some raise $50,000. All rights reserved.

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Social Media Trend Advocacy Online 34

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Response: links for 2007-08-09 at justinhamilton.org on August 9, 2007 Advertising Age: How New FCC Mobile Rules May Affect Marketers once consumer expectations are raised by the new open access mobile systems that give them control over content and handset-carrier combinations, as well as the ability to switch carriers. All rights reserved.

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ROI Social Network Social Media Advocacy 53

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

The average donor doesnt want to pay for "frilly" stuff like accounting software, talented executives, and fundraising campaigns. However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. After all, people want their contributions to go to programming.

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Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

Care2

MAY 4, 2007

Capitol Advantage iced the cake by donating the software to run the site. Visitors to the YPAC site can take action on legislation, get access to information and tools, find volunteering opportunities, make friends, blog, become a member and donate. May 4, 2007 | Joem Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The strategy is working.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

| Main | Care2 Launches Americas Favorite Animal Shelter Contest » Monday Oct 13 2008 Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) Monday, October 13, 2008 at 01:21PM | by James OMalley Nonprofits take note: Google Analytics software application has shattered previous barriers to analyzing and optimizing websites.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

That is, we are willing to have some inefficient lack of access to information every day, in exchange for getting more people involved in information production over time." Because of this, there in fact might well be negative benefit to copyright, not positive benefit. " This is, in fact, a critical issue.

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Network Chapter Copyright Open Source 100

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

These pioneers are rebuilding the relationship between citizens and government in order to make it more accessible and responsive and a much more direct democracy than the United States has seen in a very long time. March 19, 2009 | Kristin Wolff Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Sounds fun right? Thanks so much. All rights reserved.

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Government Social Media Open Advocacy 31

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. Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few.

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