Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To communicate his thoughts, he uses an alternative augmentative communication device. Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program? Save the Children. As with my previous post, this is an open invitation to any shop for a cause or gift the gift of a donation to a charity service or project to leave a comment.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

asking the user for permission, like Geolocation) or coming up with new alternatives to ensure this." " Library Value Calculator | Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library – I love this! For every tax dollar you pay, the library returns several to you in reading, research, programs and other services.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Lastly, SlideRocket is a great donated product for creating online presentations for nonprofits and libraries. The charge is sent directly to the. company, and the conference line can be connected to via the given. toll-free number.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Plenty are still in charities and libraries. The libraries (and charities) realize that even if the AV is being updated, they are basically leaving themselves wide open, right? The idea is to replace several major components of Windows XP with alternative software. Find a list of alternative browsers here. Bottom Line.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done. Benetech's digital Bookshare library is currently using Poet to add image descriptions for its accessible ebooks used by people with print disabilities.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library? You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). If you're looking for inspiration with a collections focus, the Underground Library is a compelling experimental space dedicated to archiving all media produced in Chicago. The library is run in the lobby of a theater company by a group of volunteers led by Nell Taylor.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Exciting things are happening at TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) , which brings high-quality, donated and discounted refurbished computers to nonprofits and libraries while creating environmentally-friendly alternatives to disposing of used computers. We've Recently Updated Our Catalog.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you want greater security than Drive offers, Dropbox and Box are popular alternatives. Your library may have a subscription that you can use onsite for free. Some libraries will even give you a one-time code to do your search from your home or office. And don’t worry – storing files in the cloud is perfectly safe.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library? You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Where Are Nonprofits and Libraries on Sharing? Overall, the two-day event left me wondering " Where are all the nonprofits and public libraries who've been sharing and innovating forever? Why Nonprofits and Libraries Should Be Central. Why aren't THEY here?" Sign in to share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 13, 2011

As I mentioned on Friday , I took Jamie Oliver's book, Jamie's Food Revolution , out from the library last week, and am trying some of the recipes. If you're vegan, you could replace the cheese with a vegan cheese alternative, or with seeds and nuts. I finally found one. I love sprouts. What are your favorite chopped salad recipes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives. I queried my friends on Twitter and my library, museum, archivist, and educator colleagues suggested Diigo. Alyson Kapin has a better idea – to petition Yahoo to make del.icio.us

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

If you’re really concerned about overages and don’t want to pay a national carrier for a data plan that’s bigger than you need, look into alternative carriers. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that we offer nonprofits, schools and libraries unlimited 4G data plans for just $10/month.

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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. To learn more about how fellow nonprofits and libraries are using assistive technology at their organizations, check out this Net 2.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In this blog post I'll talk in more detail about some implementation scenarios and deployment considerations for your nonprofit or library. Alternately, you can use high-speed graphics cards that supports multiple outputs on one machine, and connect the stations' monitors to the host station directly. read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

Nonprofit, church, library, and foundation offices are vulnerable to this malware, which can lock up your IT system until a ransom is paid. Also, the Veritas donation program at TechSoup provides backup and restore software to eligible nonprofit organizations and public libraries. This of course limits the spread of the infection.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Videos found on YouTube provide an alternative perspective. There is an incredible library of learnings, completely free, available on whatever platform you are reading this blog on. Many organizations provide custom learnings for these areas, as the practical nature of the process may be completely outside the scope of real life.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Macon Money is one example of a game that creates an alternative currency for real world exchanges in the physical world, similar to economic stimulus. (BS). ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their. community. (BJ).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Windows 8/RT tablets also have a feature called File History, a backup application that continuously protects your personal files stored in Libraries, Desktop, Favorites, and Contacts folders. The SugarSync service is a SkyDrive alternative that can store photos, documents, videos, music, and other files in the cloud. More Resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2011

I spend time each week combing through the latest technology news to discover green technology items that are hopefully of interest to nonprofits, NGOs, libraries, and (by extension) people in small- and medium-sized offices. There are a lot of green news blogging services, but surprisingly few devoted to green IT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" 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 isn't a replacement or cure-all for this issue, but it is an alternative source of talent. " Changing Corporate Culture.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Alternatively, if anyone wants to avoid a yard full of pink birds, they can donate money as “flamingo insurance” to be placed on a “no flock” list. Do you have outdated textbooks or slightly worn library books that can no longer be used or checked out? Used book sale. Need scavenger hunt inspiration?

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APRIL 22, 2021

Easily replaced with free or lower-cost alternatives. Subscription models , also called membership-based models, describe those in which members receive access to your entire eLearning library in exchange for a monthly, quarterly, or even annual fee. Extremely limited or otherwise not applicable to many members.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online. A Dutch friend volunteered to go snap the library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org. According to a 2002 WHO estimate, there are 162 million visually impaired people in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

If you're not print-disabled, you can stroll into your favorite bookstore or library, browse the shelves, pick a title you like, open it up, and jump right in. To get that book in large-print or as an audio book somebody else (the publisher, in most instances) had to decide to make the book available in alternative formats.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Sweepstakes is open to individuals, submitting on behalf of nonprofit organizations and libraries all over the world, who are attending the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") in Washington, DC. The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions (Short). NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

MediaBistro compiled some free alternatives to CoverItLive in this blog post. Discover what else you can do with your smartphone on TechSoup's Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries featured topic page. You can give real-time updates from fundraisers or liveblog featured speakers at events from your laptop or mobile device.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The SOAR Model comes from the Libraries of the University of Missouri and focuses on reviewing your organization’s strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. Furthermore, exploring alternative workflows that help consolidate tool use can streamline your process.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Families want to have fun too!

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