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Bookshare’s Status as an Authorized Entity under Section 121

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

NOTE : Your group or organization's contact person must be an authorized representative of your group who has all right, power, and authority to bind the group to these Official Rules for purposes of this Challenge. (b) Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

The Sweepstakes is open to individuals, submitting on behalf of nonprofit organizations and libraries all over the world, who are attending the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") in Washington, DC. The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions (Short). NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

They’re not quite taking off yet , because like most folks, I don’t quite see the use of them except to function of as a companion to our smartphones – an at-a-glance device on our wrist to see our appointment reminders, who is contacting us, check our pulse rate, and, uh, to see what time it is. Green Technology.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books.

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Three Tips: How to Harness the Power of Video for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

2) Create a Video Library Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 , stressed the importance of creating a video library. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com In terms of editing, most computers younger than 8 years have some sort of editing software and, again, that is really all you need for most web videos. All rights reserved.

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