Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

(Hat tip: Jessica Dheere, Project Director, Social Media Exchange, Beirut) for pointing to this excellent resource - A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism. It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission. Peace Fellows are graduate students who work with Advocacy Project 's community based human rights partners around the world. Help A Family of Five in Burma Stay Alive. Can I Sit With You? Photo by Jackol.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. We are poised to grow not only Bookshare.org, but all of our projects. OSEP told us on a Sunday that we needed to start serving students for free right away. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers. It was great to see the project in operation. After trying and failing twice to get into Makphet (“pepper” in Lao) Restaurant for dinner, we had a fabulous lunch there. Someday I hope to plan enough in advance to get dinner there!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

Christina Arnold: My name is Christina Arnold, and I'm the founder of Prevent Human Trafficking, formerly Project Hope International. Since this collaborative project has been in place, only one person has left the village. We keep having more and more people come across the Thai-Burma border.

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