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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network. Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

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Third, the print book is not universally accessible. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Many books are never published because of the costs.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

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A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text as well as large print. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). This draft can be downloaded from the DAISY Consortium. This was recently presented by the U.S.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

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These uncertainties may be why many nonprofits still hesitate to adopt podcasting as a part of their new media strategy. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. The What and Why?

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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That's the reason why TechSoup decided to adopt Creative Commons licensing in 2006. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities. We are in pretty good company. Find additional astonishing Creative Commons stats on the Creative Commons website.

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Data Are Not Information

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This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. This shift started fifteen years ago with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it 'the industrial revolution of data.'

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