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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

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Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Raman of Google Research, a long-time Bookshare member and advisor, was on hand to help us celebrate last night.

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International Museum Day 2020: Tips To Engage Supporters

Connection Cafe

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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How Digitised Processes Support Person-Centred Care

Saleforce Nonprofit

Support is available for jobseekers and employees at all levels: applicants, new starters, and those already in employment working as interns or apprentices. Download the Trailblazer Celebration eBook to learn more about how Autism Plus transformed its processes with Salesforce to deliver a better experience for service users and staff.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

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We celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bookshare—both online and with in real life—with gatherings of users, volunteers, partners, employees, and friends throughout the year. As we get older, some of us like to increase the length and number of celebrations for our own birthdays, so why not apply this to Bookshare too? Thanks again!

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Bookshare and the Power of We

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Blog Action Day is today, October 15, and the international community of bloggers is blogging about this year’s theme, The Power of We. By partnering with all these stakeholders, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, January 17, the 30th anniversary of the Betamax decision, we’re proud to mark Benetech’s participation in Copyright Week —a week of action that aims to engage communities in the ongoing conversation about changes to copyright law and celebrate six principles for a balanced copyright system.

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