Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2022

are tools that can quickly translate audio notes to text with AI services. This can be useful if a CEO just wants to make some audio notes every morning reacting or giving quick thoughts around a theme. Rev.com or Otter.ai These notes can then be edited and framed for relevant platform social posts.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. Worth Trust , an Indian social enterprise providing employment to people with disabilities, partnered with Bookshare to provide book-processing services and expand the library.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

Even if you have the most amazing copy, people won’t feel inclined to read through your content if your website doesn’t look the part! Annual filing requirements To strengthen your visual design, you need to adhere to web accessibility best practices. Operable: Operable content means users can interact with all elements on your page.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives. Recently Bookshare has reached two major milestones in its efforts to bring reading equality to disadvantaged populations around the world.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2017

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded. Read on for a small look ahead.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

While acquisition should still be a part of a diversified fundraising strategy, if you want to reduce attrition, focus on retaining the support of those already in your donor file. Let them meet some of the people on your team and maybe even offer up a virtual tour of your facilities and programs. Small or big, every gift matters.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

People get that it’s necessary. Few people say to anyone “I’m here for the shoveling!” or “I love filing so much! Even if shoveling soil or filing reports is their volunteer role, chances are they’re with you because they believe in the higher purpose of your nonprofit: the mission. That’s okay. Focus on your mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

One of the biggest reasons is that among people who are blind, braille literacy has been linked with higher education levels, higher likelihood of employment and higher income. At the Braille Summit’s kick-off event, keynote speaker Peter Osborne, Chief Braille Officer for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, U.K.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. Imagine a library for people with disabilities where you can’t have a book on your shelves if a patron could buy the book in that format.

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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. 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). years ago entitled the Soundproof Book.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Stop spam, not people: It is important that you pick a CAPTCHA provider that offers both visual and auditory tests. Provide text alternatives: Whether using the ALT attribute on an image , furnishing a full transcript of an audio podcast , or embedding captions in a video , every media file must have a corresponding text version available.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2012

While my favorite thing about doing these audio interviews is getting to know Convio coworkers and let you meet some of our staff that you may not otherwise run into, I think most people familiar with Convio will know how important Vinay Bhagat is to our company and the nonprofit sector.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 31, 2012

For the second month in a row, this month's podcast interview is with two people at the same time. Connection Cafe Podcast 10 Download audio file. Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. This month I got a chance to speak with two college interns that are working at Blackbaud Austin in the Engineering Department.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 20, 2011

I realize that the Marantz is beyond most people's budgets. I've never used it, but I know people who like like the Zoom H4n , and the Zoom H2 , which are still pricey, but more affordable than the Marantz. When I'm done, I export the show into iTunes where I convert the file into an MP3. number of downloads).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

With Lync, users can share their desktops and calendars and do live audio and video conferencing. The software essentially addresses the problem of busy people struggling to get a hold of each other whenever they need to. It includes instant messaging, phone-based audio, file distribution, PowerPoint sharing, and desktop sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Many people call me an expert in social media - and when you've been given that label there is a certain pressure about having to know everything. It may also happen when you have the word "scholar" in your title too. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Flip Cam Training Training Video , and Audio File.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

On one hand, you’re able to help more people and expand the reach of your mission. Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. As a nonprofit ourselves, we at TechSoup know what it feels like when your organization starts to grow. Learn more.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 31, 2012

As some of you may know, my podcasting history extends back before I started posting on the Connection Café For several years I published a podcast called the 501c3Cast which gave me some amazing opportunities to meet entergetic, smart, community-focused people in the nonprofit sector.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I have tried to use basic tools, like Notepad, to store notes, but that turned into an exercise of organizing multiple files with no way to easily find information or share it with others. If you use Outlook, OneNote makes it easy to email your notes to colleagues. You simply add the recipients and send it off! Searchability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Robin Good's Web-Based Delivery of Audio and Video Materials provides a great feature-by-feature comparison. The requirements to start benefiting from these new services and opportunities include: some familiarity with the basic audio and video file formats existing out there. of the most popular video sharing tools.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

com - a free site where people can create and share ringtones about the 2008 election. com is first free site that lets people easily create and share ringtones about the upcoming 2008 elections. com, click on "Submit Your Tone" and follow the steps on MyxerTones' site to upload their 20 second audio file."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

There were about 30 people in the room, only about 5 were women. Record Two families of mics Dynamic mic - $80 SHURE SM57 or 58is top of the line- any $20 USB mic Castblaster - can que up your audio files and sound effects - DJ tool. Adjust the audio signal and keeps the quality high. Content is first! Cost about $500.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

A production grid is easy to produce in a collaborative tool like Google Docs and is easily shared via email or file sharing. When you recruit collaborators that you've never worked with for a project, look for people who have positive working relationships with other professionals. Building a Team.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Participants learn skills in digital storytelling, photography, video production, and audio production, and use these skills to tell powerful stories about the lives of young people. His story encourages audience members to make their own communities a safe place where people can feel free to go outside and run without inhibition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Experiences: People love getting to do something unique, interesting, and valuable, even more than they like “things.” Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? People love showing off that they are involved in important causes.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

A virtual event with a live stream will generate audience engagement by showing the virtual audience real people, doing real things, in real-time. Every live stream has five major parts in order to function properly: a video source, an audio source, a video encoder, a streaming destination, and an internet connection. Audio Equipment.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

"Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. Over the past year, many different initiatives and projects have emerged that focus on tracking people killed during interaction with law enforcement. And data storytelling is at the forefront of such initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We have a couple of projects going on at the Walker Art Center that are audio based. We started off wanting to make audio tours freely available to all of our patrons and we were unhappy with most of our commercial options. And after we saw how popular podcasting was getting we packaged the same audio up as podcast (on that same page).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. Many people love to eat, but many of us aren’t as close to being culinary experts as we would like to be. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

That is the same GoDaddy that helps 12 million people get online. Conferencing options let you share your screen or presentation, use your computer or smartphone audio (no dialing in), and add up to four presenters to a live video feed. Record training webinars and save them as video files. Easily create a site. Get connected.

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