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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this third installment of our blog series, I’d like to focus on that achievement and share some of what we learned throughout the process of creating Bookshare’s first offerings in Arabic. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Is Spanish more your bag?

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A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits

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But it's a "Catch 22" -- the proliferation of decentralized technology systems compromises the typical nonprofit's ability to deliver simply because its databases don't automatically integrate information about constituents for more effective marketing. The technology is available, affordable and effective.

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Multi-Country Rollout of Salesforce to Support Workforce Development in the Middle East and North Africa

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Technology plays an inherently important role for organizations, such as EFE, connecting offices worldwide through a central system. Less than four years later, the vast majority of EFE’s network now benefits from the power of Salesforce. . From Spreadsheets to Salesforce. Rethinking Business Processes.

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