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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

The software for a virtual meeting can be either a application downloaded on each attendee's computer or a web-based application where the attendees enter a URL to enter the conference. If you’d like to just try web conferencing, there are some free web conferencing services. The free service is great for one-on-one meetings.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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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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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. This has led to advancements that benefit everyone.

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Where to Find Great Free Music for a Video

Tech Soup

If you're creating a video, a podcast, an online training, or any other project that might benefit from adding some sweet tunes, the Free Music Archive (FMA) offers more than 80,000 free, completely legal-to-use audio downloads. Here's how to get the most out of this free resource. A Little About Us.

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Webinar Recap: Free Windows 7 Curriculum

Tech Soup

Back in June, you may have seen a post from Stephanie Gerding on the TechSoup for Libraries blog about My PC , a free Windows 7 curriculum. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with My PC program manager Todd Watts on the TechSoup webinar, Free Windows 7 Curriculum: Basic Computer Training at Your Library or Nonprofit.

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