Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It’s because our mission depends on a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation. After all, our IP system was set up precisely to balance the interests of society with those of creators. We are especially concerned that the IP system ensures that it’s both easy to serve disadvantaged communities and to innovate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

adults still don't have broadband Internet access at home. The June 2015 FCC proposal calls for an expansion of Lifeline to provide low-income households with a choice of subsidized phone service or broadband Internet access. These smartphones are rudimentary, but do provide web and email access and also run Android apps.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The first time I really "got" the power of accessible technology (AT) to improve the lives of people with disabilities was when I saw the PBS documentary Freedom Machines. How Accessible Technology Computer Refurbishment Came About. How Accessible Technology Works. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world. And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages.

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MAY 26, 2022

Talent for Good provides the nonprofit and education spaces with a Talent as a Service (TaaS) program ready to solve employers’ hiring challenges by providing vetted, trained, specialized Salesforce system administrators on a contract-to-hire basis. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: Looking Ahead to Talent for Good Cohort 2.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Lisa Libraries. The After School Advantage (ASA) program is IGT’s flagship community initiative, devoted to providing young people with access to technology in a safe, nurturing after school environment while also promoting opportunities in digital learning centers in communities where the company operates. The Lisa Libraries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org. Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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MAY 19, 2021

Nonprofits, like Mental Health America (MHA) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness ( NAMI ), for example, are making practical toolkits available for free so the public can improve their mental health and increase their resiliency regardless of their personal situation. National Library of Medicine.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

For more information about activating this feature switch on your VisionLink CommunityOS system, please contact our help desk. We were the first to endorse and implement the AIRS Resource Exchange standard (to allow the exchange of resource data between systems). For more information about this classification system, go to: [link].

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MARCH 17, 2010

Thanks to a wonderfully coordinated effort (no pun intended) by both the national CAN staff and VisionLink''s development, Q&A and Help Desk staff, the new national Coordinated Assistance Network solution has been released across the Web.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes.

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JULY 22, 2021

With thousands of content creators and over 80,000 pages of content, the EPA needs a robust, intuitive system for publishing content to advance its mission of protecting the environment. In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching the goal of improving access to local foods in schools.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

More than three-quarters of the nation's public libraries offer e-books, but most Americans don't know that this service is provided by their local library. Librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea of change. Want to help people learn how to use e-readers?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Dr. Karen Erickson, one of the nation's leading experts in literacy for people with disabilities, invented the original concept for Route 66 and collaborated closely with us on the instructional approach and content. Our members are now downloading accessible books at a rate of more than one million books per year!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. Jim Fruchterman receiving the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech President Jean Lou Chameau, May 18, 2013 More than anything else, that pleasure in finding things out has been Caltech’s gift to me in my work as an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

That year, the United Nations declared International Women's Year , and began sponsoring International Women's Day every March 8. The Gender Parity Index is a UNESCO measurement of access to education for both males and females. Cecily Walker , systems librarian at the Vancouver BC Public Library. Shortfalls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? One of the teachers enjoyed the training so much that he gave me his Puerto Rican national baseball cap! This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. However, Page and Brin believed that they could create a better system to rank the relationships between websites. BackRubbing doesn’t work.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2013

Could you still operate your nonprofit, charity, or library? Pacific time to join a discussion about taking your organization virtual and what you can do to become less dependent on internal IT and in-house systems. Register for our webinar, Into the Cloud , next Thursday, March 28 at 11 a.m. Register today !

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

TechSoup's RCI program provides warrantied factory refurbished commercial grade computer systems to charities across the country, so we need the best suppliers we can find. Going National. Angela Siefer, director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), wrote a detailed profile of PCs for People.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

TechSoup has partnered with goQ Software to make their writing assistance and speech recognition software, WordQ + SpeakQ , available to eligible nonprofits and libraries. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. Caravan staff members were shocked by how many children are not accessing free summer meals — and realized they could do something about it. How Range Works.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Priebatsch even proposed how school could be improved by adding better game mechanics than those that already exist: for example, having a points system that allows you to "level up" rather than our current grading-average system, and building in an honor system to eliminate cheating ( as Princeton has done , with huge success).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Having all kinds of diverse devices and software floating around in the workplace wreaks havoc with IT systems. Many nonprofit and library workers and volunteers get work email or access databases or use the organization’s intranet using their personal devices. What's an organization to do to get a handle on this?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. By proper tech planning I mean the things that TechSoup for Libraries Technology Planning Cookbook talks about: Pulling together a committee of stakeholders to serve on a planning committee. Proper Tech Planning.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

So, why would you be interested in the debate about getting broadband Internet access to under-served communities? You need access to high speed Internet to participate in our society. I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Now available to nonprofits, charities, and libraries through TechSoup, Bitdefender security products protect individual PCs and Macs as well as enterprise networks. A two-way firewall continuously monitors Internet connections and prevents unauthorized access — even on a WiFi network or when working remotely. Drum roll, please!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association. Information Today.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. They had the committee decision-making structures from universities and the collections-authority systems of libraries. Data is not free.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

There was so much low hanging fruit, it was never hard to find the next scientific system that could be gamified through adapting it as the core mechanic within a digital or physical game. The production system at the museum was not designed to make consumable games. So players got to learn by doing in a social context.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Earlier this year, President Obama announced a bold initiative to expand access to technology jobs in the United States. " Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. Year Up's Partnership with TechHire.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

So what does this mean for nonprofits, charities, and libraries? I'm happy to learn that Microsoft is planning to update the Windows Phone operating system to include anti-theft features, including the ability to wipe and lock your phone remotely. Sounds a bit creepy, right? Or helpful? I'm not sure. The article interviews R.D.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Once you've downloaded the app, all this information is accessible regardless of whether you have phone service or internet access during an emergency. The Red Cross has a simple shelter search web app , accessible via any web browser. Shelter information is updated every 30 minutes.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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