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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

These licenses provide a plain-language, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work — on conditions of the creator's choice. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities. We are in pretty good company.

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Mark Pesce at CUA09 - Think Like a Cloud, Make a Storm, Kill the Tower!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. Hyper connectivity among employees has the potential to increase security risks due to lost hardware, software, internet transfer of files, etc. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people.

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