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Constituent Empowerment, as old as Lady Liberty

Connection Cafe

Author: James Young. While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. Pulitzer’s tactics were not exactly the same as what I call constituent empowerment but it is pretty close. Let me tell you about it.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. That can happen all over the country.