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Benetech Truth #1: Social Change Through Technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our work to date repeatedly demonstrates bridging this market failure gap: Our Literacy team has reinvented the traditional library for the blind, reducing the cost of producing an accessible book by a factor of 100 and ending the book famine that people who are blind or print disabled have faced for years.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

tend to produce more focused and conservative results. Here are couple of our favorite variables: Experiment with temperature : Adjust the ‘temperature’ setting in the AI model. Higher temperature values (e.g., can generate more diverse and creative outputs, while lower values (e.g., This is available through the API.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Opposing Salesforce.com attempt to TM "Social Enterprise"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My organization, Benetech, alone has products and services touching on all of these areas: • We write the leading software package used for managing conservation projects: Miradi, a standalone software program usable on PCs and Macs, and our Read2Go software is the leading Special Education Literacy software for the iOS platform (for iPhones and iPads) (..)

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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