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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As Another major challenge involves the graphic content in ebooks, such as pictures, charts, and diagrams, formulas and special symbols.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more. This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing. Top feature: Analyze your data using charts that are updated in real-time.

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Online Project Management Tools

Tech Soup

project leaders and team members with the tools they need, from Gantt charts to web conferencing, to coordinate the various pieces of the puzzle. them, makes files accessible from anywhere, and it is fully integrated with Google Apps. charting as well as a host of other features. They equip. working on. ActiveCollab.

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The Five Best Tools For Quick And Effective Project Management

NTEN

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd. GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries.

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