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Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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The Single Most Important Thing to Prepare for Disasters

Tech Soup

Having an agreement with another organization in an alternate location to provide services from there. What little remains we will mirror up to virtual servers somewhere, possibly Amazon. Here's what they said. Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Have a plan, of course! Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers.

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Antidote to WordPress vulnerability – Static Site Generators

John Kenyon

So what is the alternative? Static site generators put website page elements into static files instead of delivering them dynamically each time visitors request pages of your website. To reduce your vulnerability to hacking of your website, it’s worth considering static site generators as an alternative to the usual suspect(s).

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

Tech Soup

Here are some of my favorites: ES File Explorer - for browsing files on your device. Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service. Includes Netflix, Hulu, Xfinity, Amazon and lots of others. Sidecar – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service (like Uber ). the apps that TechSoup folks like.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. But then I started getting hundreds of these emails, and finally someone sent me an email address that referenced a file name. I thought it was spam. You just need one access point.