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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

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Some interesting ones are: Skype — the overwhelming favorite free audio and video calling service internationally. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls. Here are some other TechSoup nonprofit virtual meeting resources: TechSoup’s Communicate and Collaborate content resources.

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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. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. Worth Trust , an Indian social enterprise providing employment to people with disabilities, partnered with Bookshare to provide book-processing services and expand the library.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. 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.

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

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This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. Offering free recycling worldwide to its customers, who returned 12,180 metric tons of Cisco products for reuse and recycling last year.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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Bookshare and our other Access to Literacy initiatives, including the DIAGRAM Center and Route 66 Literacy, all made big strides this year through the significant dedication of the community that makes it all happen. This has led to advancements that benefit everyone. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read.

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Renewing Your Products and Services

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Many donated and discounted products at TechSoup have services and licenses that are tied to a one-year timeframe. Because of this, we get a lot of phone calls from nonprofits and libraries asking: Does my service expire or shut off after one year? Do I need to request another donation from TechSoup? Automatic Renewals. SlideRocket.

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