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Bookshare.org milestones

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We spent time talking with OSEP and our new partners from the University of Guam. We'll be working for Guam to help set up a system for assistive technology and media for disabled students with nine Pacific island entities. Big opportunity to change the world with technology! That's an issue I'm quite passionate about.

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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. But the dried version I had on Guam was better, and gives you a warm feeling. I couldn't find out much about them, other than that they were relatively recently wrecked (don't know if that means ten years ago or thirty).

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

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Social media, remote work policies, and changing social norms have blurred the lines between the workplace and “private lives”. Recent studies by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) report 26% of Americans admit to talking and debating politics in the workplace on a regular basis, 42% of all U.S.