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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. 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. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As

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Social Learning Isn't Just for Kids: Learning in Public at Conferences and Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a recent presentation he did about networks, "Be the Change You Want To See" - it's about modeling. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Flip Cam Training Training Video , and Audio File. This environment can be a training workshop or it can be in an organization.

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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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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

Museum 2.0

I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Allow voting for the board (if you have this membership model). This may be used as a surprise benefit. Welcome packet.

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