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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities. a11y accessibility blind Bookshare copyright IP Marrakesh Treaty print disabilities visual impairment WIPO'

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

The most famous example of the 6-word exercise is Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" – a tale of loss. As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank."

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Discovery Exercise: 1. Discovery Exercise: 1. Additional Exercises. Discovery Exercise from Learning 2.0 : Setting up and using a Bloglines Account. Discovery Exercise from Learning 2.0: Read your feeds.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" for the National eXtension Institiative I had some deja vu. " for the National eXtension Institiative we lost the connection to the Web conference component -- and at one point almost 100 or so folks logged into the webinar had to re-enter, including me. Full of copyright issues. Don't let it throw you."

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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. … …Last year, Princeton University held a conference at which List, Croson, Andreoni and others who study charitable giving got together with fund-raisers from Africare, the National MS Society and elsewhere. Stars — movie stars, rock stars, sports stars — exercise a ludicrous influence over the public consciousness.

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