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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

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Social media platform Number of videos Engagements, short form video only Percentage change in overall engagement, year over year Total video views Followers added Instagram 86 4,603 113.4% 81,294 1,799 YouTube 64 712 118.45% 32,870 2,066 TikTok 106 7,724 N/A 130,665 1,526 In general, videos get more engagement than our static posts.

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

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When you make changes to a theme using the customizer tool, you’ll now have the option to save your changes as a draft instead of having them go live instantly. And in addition to saving theme changes, you’ll be able to schedule when the changes appear on your site. In keeping with that trend WordPress 4.9

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe in the power of books to change the world. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Gerry did have one other piece of critical advice: change the name.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries. Article 2(c).

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Why Your Country Should Ratify the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. delegation signing the treaty.

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