Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

At Cornershop Creative, we partner with nonprofit organizations to develop web solutions and build dynamic, easy-to-maintain websites. Here’s how this type of strategy might work for your organization: Post new digital content to your blog, like a post about how your recent project or program benefited the community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. Gamers are already helping tackle real-world problems, just by playing games. Purpose: Recruiting new members, viral awareness-building. Why are games important?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

The world has big problems. We use technology to create products and projects that serve humanity where the market will fail to go because they offer modest financial returns. To create these breakthrough solutions, our team uses its skills to build upon the incredible talents and productivity of the larger tech community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. Bookshare has made my homework easier,” Brennan says.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech feeds an intense curiosity, a burning desire to understand, to grapple with hard problems and to own them! The thrill of solving problems, of figuring something out, and bringing that understanding into the service of humanity. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2018

We're building tools, trainings, and hopefully, a movement for a more inclusive world. This project is led by the MAH but global in scope. We're launching it with partners at community-based libraries, parks, museums, and cultural centers around the world. Many organizations think they have a "for" problem.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

In actuality, hackathons are events where ideas are hatched and technology needs are met — making them excellent opportunities for nonprofits, charities, and libraries! A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? At tightly facilitated events called Generators, leaders with a range of expertise from the nonprofit and library communities discuss their daily work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

It addresses the thorny problem of bringing the 25 percent or so of people in the city who are still not participating in the information age to inclusion. One element is an infrastructure project installing fiber optical cabling to homes, schools and businesses and gigabit (ultra-fast) Internet, sponsored by Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Staff goes out of the building for a meeting at least once a quarter. Do fun icebreakers at meetings and other team building activities. Volunteer on a project together. Here’s the list: Function. Hike during staff retreat.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For some reason, and I’m not sure how this ever got started, some nonprofits think grants are a magical solution that will solve all their problems. Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Apps Made by Youth.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Particularly important for smaller nonprofits and libraries, troubleshooting problems, maintaining your technology, learning new tech skills, and increasing the effectiveness of every day applications can help keep you ahead of the curve and help avoid problems down the road. nonprofit or library? project management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. No problem! In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. While I was there, I also met Carol.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold. While that in itself probably qualifies us as one of India's largest children's book publishers, when compared to the scale of the problem - over 300 million children in India - it is still a minuscule effort. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. It is large space with a kitchen, library, and enough chairs and technology to accommodate an all-staff meeting including remote staff. But there are challenges, too.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Discuss the project with your board.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

The euro is the second most-used currency in the world, so adding the option of donations in euros had the potential to allow many more people to contribute to their favorite projects on GlobalGiving. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Want more tips like this?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Leonard Library. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. To wit, we in online learning are often in the business of managing transactions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. Building a New Source of Talent. "[Year Up] is another tool in your chest to help you solve a problem in your company." How do we take this on as a real project?"

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. Thanks for being here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. We have served more than 12,300 nonprofits and libraries across all 50 states, and we estimate that we have have saved organizations somewhere in the neighborhood of $4.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

It seems like every day there's a new overhyped idea that claims to fix a problem you never thought you had, like a delivery service for laundry quarters. So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community. The project was created by the St.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. I am part of the problem. We had a gorgeous building in the middle of downtown Santa Cruz. And proud of it. Recombine them.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

By using tools that are owned by everyone, you know you aren't building your work in a way that depends on or benefits any one corporation or institution, but building your work in a way that benefits everyone. . Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. They are building a network of Pulse Labs to this end, the first of which operates in Jakarta Indonesia. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. Find out more on this new service here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Secure your donor, client, and project information with desktop security tools like Norton and enterprise security software available through the Symantec donation program. A Shopify store is a great fundraising tool for nonprofits that sell branded merchandise, arts, or crafts; for libraries that run book sales; and much more.

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