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How to approach your association’s board for a new tech investment

Nimble AMS

Here’s how to make sure your pitch for new tech appeals to individual board member’s roles and concerns. . Gaining board approval for a new technology investment requires you to make a strong business case. Download the AMS Selection in a Post-Pandemic Era eBook today. Now it’s time to get board approval. . You know it.

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A Call for Millions: Ending the Global Book Famine for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our books will play on whatever tech the reader has in hand, even a $10 MP3 player. We have the ebooks. The Global Treaty for the Blind makes it legal to create ebooks for people with disabilities without having to pay a royalty or getting permission. We have a new business model. Let’s seize the opportunity!

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!

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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college. When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential. Thank you for your support!

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

From my college dorm room, where I thought that pattern recognition could do more than target missiles, to my first successful high tech company where we built technology that could read just about any font without training, to Benetech’s founding with the Arkenstone reading machine for the blind. That was over 24 years ago!

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How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year. Here’s some resources for doing quick tech planning so you’ll have some money to work with in 2014. Proper Tech Planning. How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan. It’s definitely tech planning made simple.

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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. I laughed, because at the time Calera was an accidentally nonprofit tech company: it was organized as a for-profit but was still losing (a lot of) money.

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