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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. The Bookshare promise to American students with disabilities is that if they need a book for education, Bookshare will ensure that they have it. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. The volunteers were high school students. It is important to use video, photos, and audio. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Needs an engine.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization.

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

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Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. Mindomo offers 24 templates, three account types, and opportunities to work on mind maps in teams, add video and audio files, set tasks priority, and add comments to branches. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive.

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