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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is an immense victory for fair use as the basis of a balanced intellectual property system, and we, at Benetech, are delighted by it and by its tremendous positive implications for the public interest. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. copyright law). only copies.

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Hidden Gems for Nonprofits in the TechSoup Catalog

Tech Soup

We'll kick this off with a completely original, new, and free fundraising service for charities, churches, and libraries. It is useful for any charities and libraries that are moving to Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, or OneDrive for Business for document management. Beyond the Pie Chart: When to Use a Bar Chart or Line Chart.

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Best to Test: Tools for Gauging your WordPress Site’s Speed and Performance

Byte Technology

It also analyzes each and every page on a site and archives the performance history so users can chart their site speed over time and see if changes and tweaks make a difference. To begin, check your website server and determine if you’re on a shared host system or a dedicated service.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. Even with the consultant’s help, they had to endure a lengthy implementation period; it was months before the system was set up. Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion.

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How to Host a Read-a-thon Fundraiser

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While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. If your school reads daily announcements over an intercom system, use that opportunity to plug your read-a-thon as well. Why should you host a read-a-thon?

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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