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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. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. There are many sites that offer free, royalty-free music for videos, in all sorts of genres, that generate all sorts of moods. Free Music Archive: [link].

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Creating a Culture of Storytelling Webinar Recap

Tech Soup

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Optimizing Your Software: 4 Tips for Growing Nonprofits

DNL OmniMedia

Investing in an all-in one, fully connected system is your best bet to ensure you have all of the tools you need and that they all speak the same language. Effective grant management software comes with a few key features: document library, calendar tools, and reporting capabilities. Best Practices.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. It’s the right long-term solution.

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Guide to Refining Prompts & AI Prompts Terms

Whole Whale

Blank slate generative AIs (chatbots that don’t have context on your organization/data) are like over-confident interns. Enhancing Clarity Pinpoint confusing phrases, vague language, and complex sentences in the previous reply. Increasing Approachability Pinpoint any overly academic language, jargon, or complex vocabulary.

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July NetSquared Think Tank Round-Up: Building a Culture of Accessibility

Tech Soup

From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology. But in dealing with software issues and the visually impaired, it can be a challenge. Johnson via Linkedin.