Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Books with image descriptions will go back into the Bookshare library for students with print disabilities to use in their coursework.

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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

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. One major step to improving security of sensitive information was the recent development and release of Mobile Martus.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So, we’re creating a new place where techies can find social tech applications that resonate with their personal passion for change! HRP’s statistical analysis of evidence from the Guatemalan National Police Archives, which contains some 80 million documents, has helped to establish forced disappearance as a crime in Guatemala.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We fed the many hours of conversation into an application called Dedoose, which helped us to sort and flag themes in the focus groups. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2012

What happened when TechSoup gathered a room full of nonprofit and library professionals, social entrepreneurs, and programmers together on a recent Thursday ? The goal of the challenge is to develop applications that harness one-gigabit networks to address real-world problems. The ideas addressed major areas of concern for the U.S.:

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This group of 400+ organizations – libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit resource centers – offer you a way to access it from their location. Their “Lite” version offers you access to grantmakers in their database currently accepting applications. They offer free webinars to learn more too. Grant Gopher is for U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Recently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) published guides to help community organizations create or expand programs to close the digital divide. Additional Resources. NTIA Toolkit (PDF). IMLS Getting Started Guide (PDF).

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MARCH 30, 2022

I often recommend you look to your local community for grant writing courses offered by community foundations and libraries and those available in the continuing education offices of universities and community colleges. Prospective donors including grant making agencies are overwhelmed with grant applications.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Make a list of the lead applications your employees use in the field. Then check with the software vendors to get a range for data usages with their specific applications and multiply by the number of mobile users you have. Or are they completing data-intensive tasks in the field every day?

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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. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association. Information Today.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. I enjoyed giving my 20 minute talk on Bookshare.org and building a global library.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2013

Could you still operate your nonprofit, charity, or library? Our special guest speakers are Linda Widdop, Director of Technology Services at Tech Impact and Antonio Palumbo of the National Development Council. If you were to turn off all the electricity to your organization's offices, what would happen?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Now available to nonprofits, charities, and libraries through TechSoup, Bitdefender security products protect individual PCs and Macs as well as enterprise networks. These applications have won awards, shone through rigorous testing, and met our strict standards. TechSoup is pleased to present … the Bitdefender donation program!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This year kicked off with the launch of the new United Nations agenda for global philanthropy, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will take us through 2030. nonprofits that are listed on GuideStar.org who want to use Facebook's new fundraising tools must complete a three-step application process. The Backdrop.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This was also a decade of prosperity and success for many in the nation towards the turn of the century. This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. This was a time of increased social activism and political reform. Go big, or go home.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. California became the first state in the nation to have a law go into effect concerning privacy. . Banking and credit card security.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

He is also the former executive director of the Craigslist Foundation , one of the founders of the national Social Media for Nonprofits conferences, and the author of Nonprofit Management 101 (Jossey-Bass) among many other things. TechSoup Article: Mobile for Nonprofits and Libraries. TechSoup: Mobile Applications for Beginners.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Hosting a fundraising event?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Valter has found that the cloud applications that seem to be most popular in Brazil are the email applications, Hotmail and Gmail.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For example, the Leaderosity Learning Library by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has courses that utilize engaging learning elements such as text, video, images, and interactive features. You’ll find a book, an online course, or another professional development resource applicable to your team. Look for expert-created online courses.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

That means there's no application to fill out, no interview, no training, no long-term commitment. Think of it like the one-day beach cleanup organized by an environmental initiative, where you just show up for the event, and there's no background check for participants, no application process, no video to watch.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank." led the bilingual tweet chat.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. Hear what other nonprofits and libraries are saying in our Community Forums. September's here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River has shown literally millions of people, including policymakers, the need to protect places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's Tongass Rainforest. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River has shown literally millions of people, including policymakers, the need to protect places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Alaska's Tongass Rainforest. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." Environmental Impact.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The only way refugees in this country can check on the status of their applications with the US Immigration and Naturalization Service is though the Web. (I I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Interested in continuing the discussion?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. To attract good applicants, nonprofits may well need to go mobile with their job application process. This is about as certain a prediction as you'll find in this post. Privacy and Security.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women. It took me awhile to catch on to the gender divide in museums, arts organizations, and libraries. When we have new jobs or internships open up, men represent less than 5% of applicants. And one was a local TEDx. Any guesses? At TEDx, the mix was 50/50.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Last year, Sean's programs supplied a million low-cost licenses for Microsoft Windows, Office, and other applications to 5,000 commercial and noncommercial refurbishers. He has created partnerships with the United Nations UNIDO and UNEP programs over the years to promote refurbishment in the developing world.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The app was developed on the Windows Azure platform, a cloud-based platform for building and hosting web applications. WISER , the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders from the National Library of Medicine is a free resource for first responders to hazardous material incidents.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 2016 Global Fraud Study , Report to the Nations on Occupied Fraud and Abuse, analyzed 2,410 occupational fraud cases. The study found that 10% of these losses were applicable to not-for-profit organizations with a median loss of $100,000.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. It is one of the BRIC nations with its economy growing at 8% annually. billion people, of which over 70% are rural.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Many nonprofit and library workers and volunteers get work email or access databases or use the organization’s intranet using their personal devices. The most dramatic example of this that I’ve found is a news story by National Public Radio entitled Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone. The Problem.

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