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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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The Gift of Reading, a Circle of Life

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. To continue this work, we depend on the support of generous donors.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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How One Library Is “Loaning out the Internet” Using Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

PCL is a nonprofit network of nine neighborhood libraries that provide free, accessible library services and serve as vibrant neighborhood hubs. Most recently, PCL has been a trailblazer in providing mobile technology to their patrons, redefining what library services means. Internet Lending Project.

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3 questions to ask during demos at AMS Fest

Nimble AMS

This approach ensures your organization is keeping up with the latest technological advances without budget-busting fees and broken customizations. The Association IT Director's Guide to Understanding CRM-based Association Management Software. eBook: 6 things you should know before selecting your next AMS. Email me the guide.

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How Nonprofit Board Members Can Help Their Boards with IT – Get Rid of IT!

BoardAssist

For guidance on this topic we turned to Pat Callihan, Executive Director of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact, and asked how nonprofit board members can help improve tech efficiency at their organizations. There is also a free eBook on Office365 on the same site. His background includes over 25 years of technology leadership.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. Of course, the Librarian of Congress has pronounced on this topic already!

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