Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Thousands of ebooks are pouring into the collection each month thanks to the dedication of our volunteers around the world and partnerships with more than 500 socially responsible publishers who donate their digital files. Bookshare titles range from vocational to research to teacher-recommended reading. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As We also continue to add books from volunteers, staff and outsourcers through scanning and proofing, including student requests.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

While acquisition should still be a part of a diversified fundraising strategy, if you want to reduce attrition, focus on retaining the support of those already in your donor file. He is an avid (but aging) soccer player, audio book enthusiast, and the heavily-disputed UNO champion of his household.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Remember the whole conference will be archived, so you if you can't spend the entire two days online listening in real time, you can always download the audio files and listen later. (I'm My presentation is based on Chapter 3 of NTEN's book. If you are on the fence about signing up, NTEN is offering up 25% discount.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. Audio conferencing and online collaboration solutions are important for staff and volunteers spread across the state, country, and world. Following on the heels of our Software to Build and Grow Your Nonprofit.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. Audio and video have proven to be highly effective media for nonprofits -- and throttling would impact all orgs -- no matter where they fall on the spectrum.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

With currently over 25,750 books, Bookshare.org has become the national repository of member-contributed scanned accessible books. Scanned books? Accessible books? There are some options, but the selection is limited: fewer than 5% of books are available in accessible media. What's the difference here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. If you upload your images to Flickr, the license information is displayed on the photo page ; 3) Embed the license information directly into the file. into the file itself.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you charge people to view your website or want to reprint our content in a commercial book, please ask us for explicit permission. Any organization or individual can publish just about any copyrighted content under a Creative Commons license, whether that content is a book, an audio file, a video clip, software, or any other creative work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. The decision to add a music track is a trade-off between file size and dramatic impact. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. You can provide everyone who completes the hunt with something as simple as a digital file. 20) Book club. 9) Movie screenings. 14) Gaming tournaments. 21) Conferences.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Box is an online file sharing and collaboration tool. Litmos is compatible with numerous media types, including Microsoft Office, Flash, video, and audio. Reading Eggs offers instructors an in-depth view of each student's progress, with e-book recommendations tailored to students' skill levels. Two Truths and a Lie.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Phone call to the donor from a person impacted by the nonprofit. This may be used as a surprise benefit. Welcome packet.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Connections between the publications are more important than strict regional boundaries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.”

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2020

in the United States filed for unemployment at the onset of COVID-19. You might consider taking a virtual tour of our facilities, starting a book club about a mission-related topic, or simply hosting a virtual dinner for everyone to chat and network. . We recommend keeping the video and audio both on for these meetings.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are some of my favorites: ES File Explorer - for browsing files on your device. app - for reading books and documents on a phone (any platform). Good Reads – this is a social media for books app. the apps that TechSoup folks like. Wes Holing, Web Content Developer. I'm an Android guy and a photographer.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. The platform lends itself to investments in high-definition movies, high-resolution photos, and audio-clips — stories that help reveal "what your support is accomplishing." Only time will tell.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The 182-page book includes detailed descriptions of projects, budgets, and decision-making processes, along with extensive interviews with artists, curators, and museum staff of all stripes. The book is fascinating on multiple levels. I loved the sections of the book that focused on the interplay between artists and security staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The audio is fading a bit, so I've been thinking about what Mark wrote in his essay, " Sharing Power (Aussie Rules)" I read the essay three times, I mind mapped it, and have been noodling on it for an hour or two. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Social Print Studio enables users to download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Wistia is a video and audio creation tool that allows you to add email pop-ups to your videos and podcasts. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

There are two ways to upload your video: by using our Single File Uploader and the YouTube Uploader. Videos uploaded through YouTube’s Single File Uploader have to be under the 100MB file size limit. Programs like these allow you to edit your videos, add soundtracks, and compress file sizes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Social Print Studio enables users to login and download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Flipsnack empowers users to transform PDFs into online flipping books. Small PDF enables users to convert numerous files types into PDFs as well as edit and merge PDFs.

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