Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Nonprofits and libraries are consistently challenged to collaborate with their staffs, boards, and other supporters in efficient and effective ways. Organizational history, content, knowledge, and files may live with different people, in various email inboxes, or on different computers or file servers. Pacific time. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, the Chicago Public Library system created new children’s spaces in their libraries based on extensive visitor research and observed how families and children move through the new spaces and then iterate based on what they find. They are using service design to better serve their community’s changing needs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

How does your library address questions about Internet safety? determining what content to include and how to teach it can present many challenges. This session, Public Tech Instruction: Internet Safety , this Wednesday, March 26 at 11 a.m. individual settings to patrons in public libraries and nonprofit.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Rebranding can be used to improve public perception of a nonprofit’s organization, but it’s a major decision and significant project to undertake. Pay attention to which types of content your supporters engage with the least to find opportunities for improvement. Library of existing content. Professional support.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This content is available to members on our Knowledge Center along with a continuously updating roster of information and publications from our industry partners including advice on technology, marketing, and data analytics in multiple media formats. Growing Together. I can’t put a price on my peer-to-peer relationships.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

So, what’s the best way to stay organized while keeping your content fresh? So here are three tips for staying organized while keeping your proposal content fresh. Tip number three: For content that’s more than basic facts, develop a system for keeping track of frequently-used information. I know, I’ve been there!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We hope you like our content, and we want you to use it! Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), This means you can take our content, post it on your website, or use it in your trainings or newsletters, and you don't even need to ask us for permission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

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. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Wouldn''t that create more demand for our Bookshare online library? Our primary goal is to ensure that people with disabilities get equal access to the books and content they need for education, employment, leisure and social inclusion. She wants to see every piece of content that is born digital be born accessible.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

This can include social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin) and industry publications and websites. Hosting virtual events inevitably leads to a library of valuable and useful content. This content can be made available to your team and attendees for future reference. Marketing Materials.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Nearly all of the web communication challenges I’ve encountered with the groups I’ve worked with stem from basic content planning and governance issues. People come to your website, first and foremost, to get information, so Content Strategy is relevant for any communications work you do. So, Content Strategy was born!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

Social, shareable content. New York Public Library 2015. New York Public Library 2005. And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing. Bold imagery. Large font. Dramatic use of color.

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NetWits

MARCH 26, 2013

It’s an accounting of the ecosystem in which your organization presents itself, involving all of the properties, amenities, and public spaces that collectively shape public perception of your cause. your great content and campaigns). To curate public spaces. These too are a part of your neighborhood. To avoid sprawl.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Copyright United States Library eBook 100

Candid

MAY 18, 2022

In 2015, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History launched the Philanthropy Initiative to collect, document, research, and create exhibitions and online content relating to the history of American giving. Can you give a little bit of background on the exhibition Giving in America ? . Why is it important to this history? .

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History America Giving Museum 98

Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

With the public launch of Google’s Bard chatbot which uses their LLM and search data as of May 2022 the clock has started on how the largest search engine will be shifting user behavior ( Bard FAQ on how it works ). Notice how Whole Whale’s same content is now pushed into a footnote, while the full answer is provided.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. That is, we want the ebooks that are purchased by the general public to be fully accessible.

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Accessibility Global eBook Copyright 155

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause? I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. Fedoras for Faireness.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world. And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages.

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Morocco United States Copyright Library 127

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. What do you think about challenges as a way to promote user-generated content? Photo: billybicket.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library. Through the LIT project, we’re adding many new innovations to the groundwork laid by the B4E project, with a focus on three core areas: content, tools, and utilization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. Bookshare has grown into the largest online digital library of accessible books and periodicals in the U.S., In September 2007, the U.S. There are some 7.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. of legally blind children in public and residential schools used braille as their primary reading medium.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Access to Exclusive Content One of the primary benefits of joining a membership-based organization is gaining access to exclusive content. If you’re looking for a good way to start offering exclusive content, try a members-only newsletter. Here are three benefits that you can use to provide members-only info.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Notice how Whole Whale’s same content is now pushed into a footnote, while the full answer is provided. Again, Whole Whale’s content is shown as a footnote in the context of a full answer. As chatbots and voice assistants provide direct answers, people may not click through to content. Track upstream search-side metrics.

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Search Grant Organization Voice 52

Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

The app includes journals and trackers to allow parents to record important information about their journey, a glossary of commonly used terms, a community and resource library, a directory of NICU family support partners, a postpartum checkup, and more.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

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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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

It used to be that you needed to enroll at a local school or spend hours in the library to learn new skills. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content. Public speaking. Communication.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This content represents a wealth of credible sources for research papers and projects. . Candid’s Foundation Directory is another robust source for finding funding from foundations, public charities, and federal funders—it's a great research resource to get giving insights. Foundation Directory . Grants to Individuals .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

TechSoup Registration for Non-501(c)(3) Public Libraries. Finally, in the TechSoup Registration for Non-501(c)(3) Public Libraries video , you will learn about the registration processes in relation to non-501(c)(3) public libraries. Do you want to see more short, multimedia content?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. If you didn’t have one, you could use it at the library, which you can’t use right now…I worry that it’s an equity issue for some volunteers not having the resources to be able to do that from home.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries. Works Covered.

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