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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

The grand prize will be a $500 Amazon gift certificate, with five honorable mentions receiving $100 gift certificates. Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., With the knowledge that your information is safe and your organization is secure, how can you better focus on your mission? Share your story.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The authors present a two-by-two matrix. As the author William Gibson famously noted, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. How to find them? milllion blogs. They don???t

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System Error: Stanford Professors Tackle Tech Disruption and Democracy

Non Profit Quarterly

Jeremy Weinstein: And I’m the third member of the teaching team and the author team for this book, Jeremy Weinstein. And we need a set of companies that see this not simply as a compliance issue—that is, “Are we following the law?”—but, So, we talk about a system Amazon built, for example, for résumé screening. Now, the good….

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