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The Struggle for Book Access (Blog Post #1)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And in exchange, the SFWA encourages their members to voluntarily give Bookshare their content (high quality files remove/greatly reduce the danger of errors creeping in). Amazon isn’t distributing an audio book: it’s distributing a text ebook (which they have the rights to do so and authors get compensated for, one assumes).

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. The decision to add a music track is a trade-off between file size and dramatic impact. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Tech Soup

IJNET, the International Journalists' Network, put together a journalism safety toolkit for journalists in the field. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. The database and gallery highlight the immensity of the issue. Online Guidelines and Handbook.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. Be Helpful.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

We consider anything intended for public consumption to be “published,” so while our collection is very broad, we draw the line at correspondence or personal journals. 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.

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Mobile Social Networks Get a Boost - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Along with the increased use of SMS and mobile e-mail, people are sharing photos and video files. Audio/visual content and video in particular is rapidly moving to the mobile space as the number of video service providers increase and bandwidth reaches 3G capacity. This could finally make online fundraising a success.