Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it’s a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The ship has sailed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). Carol shared that they had received an Impact Sourcing grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and scaled up their capacity. and we needed more help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. Yet, nonprofits frequently lag behind the for-profit world in applying technology to their work. Benetech has a unique opportunity to repeatedly use technology as a social change agent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You can even pull this off in multiple long-distance locations where several smaller groups gather in-person and combine to share their experience virtually with other group locations via livestream and watch party event software features. You can also take photos and share videos on social media to make this more of a community event.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

shares the Internet on my phone with a PC, Mac or tablet. This free app integrates well with email and shares tasks with others. It is for iOS or Android and is the world's largest online community for readers and book lovers to share recommendations. Camera ZOOM FX - photo enhancement app. Here’s how it works.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Download eBook. This technology can: Send outbid notifications Set maximum bids for users Allow users to build a list of “favorite items” Streamline the item checkout process Facilitate the online registration process with multi-guest capability Allow event purchases like raffle tickets Collect data for key reporting.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Make sure they share their progress on social media and use any appropriate hashtags or branding.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Here, Facebook’s Latest News Feed Algorithm Update — Three Things You Need to Know , John Haydon walks us through what the updates mean and how you can be sure that what you share remains relevant and engaging. million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. And I want more. You should.

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