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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. The digital textual content is presented as text, but the TPM blocks a screen reader from accessing the text to speak it aloud, or transmitting it to a digital Braille display.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. TrueCrypt –- Very well-designed and easy-to-use program for encrypting your files and folders: [link]. Koyote Free CD — Ripper and Free Audio Converter: [link]. But that’s why it’s free.).

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July Is Web Conferencing Month

Tech Soup

cents/minute for Adobe Connect and audio conferencing services combined, just for nonprofits. Read on to learn what web conferencing is, why you should also use audio conferencing, how Adobe Connect stacks up, and tips and tricks for wildly successful web conferences. Why Should You Also Use Audio Conferencing Services?

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Grow Your Email List Without Spending Money

Tech Soup

And yet, it's important to make the effort, becauses email "churn" eats away at the size of your file as people change email addresses, close accounts, and change jobs. These free ideas and strategies will build your email file by tapping into your current website traffic and social media follower community.

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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. In addition, DimDim has an integration with Moodle (PDF) ! I had been encouraged to look again at Yugma , because they said that Linux desktop sharing would happen before the end of last year.

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

Candid

Use it to record ideas, brainstorm, and convert data into presentations, PDF, charts, and other formats. Easy and free to use, this web-based mind mapping tool allows you to export data into JPEG, PNG, PDF, SVG, text, or Excel formats. Now it's an all-in-one whiteboard app that combines mind mapping with task management features.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

audio and video files used for press stories, appeals, celebrity support (and branching out into podcastingetc) [link] [link] Animal Aid???shock The full version is here (as a pdf ). does aid help developing countries???? link] Plan International???support support child sponsorship approach with ???Virtual Virtual Village???including

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