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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. The investments that Amazon, Apple and Google, among others, are making in aggregating Spanish-language digital content signal their priority on developing the Spanish-language markets in Latin America.

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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. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice. What was your first step?

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time. I hadn’t lived in the Amazon before. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. In retail, Amazon is so 2012. It is a China-based company that now has merchandise sales volume that is more than Amazon and eBay combined. She is now TechSoup Global's content curator. There are now 2.4

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. you know, I thought, "Wow!

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