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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. So, the publishers weren’t against all licensing.

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Literacy for a billion: PlanetRead

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Founded by Indian Institute of Management professor Brij Kothari, the first concept was same language subtitling. They first created original visual story content, and then added different languages. In addition to a print book, they have multimedia content that animates the characters and adds audio narration.

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

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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. A note about music: Do not use licensed music without permission. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. Free Music Archive: [link].

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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, thanks to our Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. What Is Creative Commons?

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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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My personal Blogher To Do List and Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do Audio - Thanks to some inspiration from Lisa Williams , I'm over my audiophobia and relieved to know that I don't have shell out the bucks for Ipod to podcast. I have the first few steps to get started now with audio. How to keep plugged into and contribute this blogher community? To Do List. Volunteer for next year's blogher.

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