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Making the Book Truly Accessible for All Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Having learning disabilities or various learning differences, they need alternative reading environments that rely on their strengths rather than on their weaknesses. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., In September 2007, the U.S. There are some 7.5

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Putting on my technical hat, I pointed out that the technical advances needed to make synthetic speech a reasonable alternative to human narration were years away and that gave author’s plenty of time to price these conditions into their negotiations with publishers. But, the advocacy groups present in Geneva felt that the U.S.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). .

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An ARG at the Smithsonian: Games, Collections, and Ghosts

Museum 2.0

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. As librarian Aaron Schmidt once commented, libraries are also ideal places for ARGs. Are you ready to construct fictional, alternative narratives about your collection?

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Meet the Experts: Interview with TechImpact’s Sam Chenkin

Tech Soup

It’s pretty hard to make sense of what cloud services your charity or library actually need. I love working with technology – it is a quickly changing field that provides challenging problems and opportunities for real-world application. Are you feeling the pressure to migrate your IT to the cloud? Tech Impact’s.

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Preparing for Planned Giving Conversations—24 Terms You Need to Know

Connection Cafe

Many wills and trusts are still written with quite formal language and might be similar to this example: “ I give, bequeath, and devise the sum of fifty-thousand dollars ($50,000) to Middletown Library, located at 123 Main Sreet, Middletown, Wyoming. Ten percent (10%) of my estate to Middletown Library.”.