Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

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 We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. Mada is also helping us encourage publishers of Arabic-language books to support this important initiative and provide additional content to be included in Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. Speed Enhancement – WP Engine uses a content delivery network (CDN) that boosts your website’s overall page sped and load time. 3) Kinesta :: kinsta.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print. Search the Web for illegal copies of Bookshare books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” I was an expert witness in the case, and we’ve filed an amicus brief in the appeal.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it’s a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The ship has sailed.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

While we are providing the document as a PDF file also, ebooks are easier to resize fonts and thus easier to read, especially on an e-ink device. Ideally you would be writing them as an HTML file in the first place. E-books are essentially like HTML files, with special tags that makes it easy for devices to parse the data.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ebook Website Optimization Action Plan Learn More 2. Images are an important part of keeping online visitors on your website— 91% of consumers prefer visual content to written content, and the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text! Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use. To address this need, we’ve been operating the DIAGRAM Center , a research and development hub working to set standards, generate best practices, and design tools to ensure that images found in digital content are accessible to everyone.

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Common offers include: Lifetime or VIP access to your online summit or the recorded content. You’ll want people who could provide great content for your target audience, as well as someone who has brand name recognition that would lend credibility to the event. Selling your core offer with an All-Access Pass included.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Then click the “Create Audience” drop-down and select “Customer File.” CSV file or MailChimp list to import. Content is still a very important factor in educating, informing, and building member/donor trust. But getting your content in front of your target audience can be difficult.

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Ideas Donation Online Strategy 111

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

They’ve also told us about some great, but little-known online resources that explore faith-based IT like the pros and cons of the different church member management software packages and website content management systems for congregation websites. to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications.

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Resource Technology Listserv Virginia 71

AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Common offers include: Lifetime or VIP access to your online summit or the recorded content. You’ll want people who could provide great content for your target audience, as well as someone who has brand name recognition that would lend credibility to the event. Selling your core offer with an All-Access Pass included.

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Online Create Registration Virtual 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. I want everyone to be able to use the content and make derivative works.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Superb content. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. p.s. Look out for our upcoming eBook on donor retention. If you thought these tips were useful, you’re going to love the full donor retention eBook. Mark Rovner , founder and CEO of Sea Change Strategies. Great donor service. Can you do like they do?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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eBook China Copyright Library 277

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I especially talk about the benefits of using Microsoft Office 365 for email, file sharing and collaboration. We serve thousands of nonprofits through our social media, eBook and web content. Cloud solutions are transforming the way that nonprofits work – providing enterprise class solutions at low cost.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 9) Movie screenings. 14) Gaming tournaments.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s not too late, you can download our latest eBook to help you prepare. Bynder’s digital asset management platform enables teams to collaborate in the cloud, get content to market faster, and maximize the impact of marketing assets. If you haven’t started yet, don’t worry!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Digital content is great for a busy nonprofit leader to get results without a ton of ongoing effort because it is evergreen – an up-front investment to create and then used over-and-over. However, creating any digital guide (petition, checklist, infographic, eBook, online course) is not enough to ensure success. Audio files or Videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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eBook Copyright China Law 107

Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Wes Holing, Web Content Developer. Here are some of my favorites: ES File Explorer - for browsing files on your device. Carlos Bergfeld, Product Content Manager. Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Download eBook. If your event is particularly inspiring and the content resonates with your audience, your supporters are going to want to donate. Anything that might draw a crowd at an in-person event, like a professional speaker, live music, or a series of performances, would likely make great livestreaming content.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Use smaller image file sizes so they don’t take long to download on mobile devices. Scannable” Content. Check out the eBook! For example, a photo of a group of children is fine to view on a desktop computer, but a photo of one or two children close up has more impact when viewed on a mobile device.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

However, for those nonprofits that have purchased the ebook version of Mobile for Good it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality and content. Select a Content Management System (CMS) and hosting service. ? Write content and secure photos for all website pages. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

For those who have purchased the ebook of Mobile for Good , it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality. Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

TechSoup’s web content developer, Wes Holing, is a big fan of Pixlr Editor free online photo editor from Autodesk. It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc.

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