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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is an academic conference on access technology, full of researchers trying out new things that will help people with disabilities. My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger.

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Museums and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m In this post, I???m

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Alpine Access: Insights from 12 Years of Managing Remote Workers

Care2

In 1998, virtual call center staffing company Alpine Access opened its doors. All of the staff taking calls with Alpine Access — now totaling about 3,000 customer service representatives — work from their homes. Jim Ball: When we started Alpine Access, we knew we didn’t know what we didn’t know. The lessons?

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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. tools and websites. the crackdown on web 2.0

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you haven’t yet created a back-up system to ensure your communities are accessible in the event of a worse case scenario, then you’ve missed a crucial step in the set-up process. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.”

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Help Street Kids Reach for the Stars: Flickr Fundraising Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With all the attention on other social media tools, many people forget about the power of flickr, its wonderful community and rich photographs of the world. Take for example CARF, Children At Risk Foundation, which has just launched its " Reaching for a Star " Flickr Xmas fund-raising campaign for 2006. s a changemaker.

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Three Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Diversify Their Brand Online

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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