Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

One of the main reasons for attending TED is to get new ideas for Benetech and for the Raising the Floor movement. I ran into a Stanford MBA student at TED, Joy Sun. But, all the students had cell phones. This is unlike Bookshare, which is for the 1-2% of the population who qualifies for the copyright exemption.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible.

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Google has set aside $10 million to help fund the five best ideas as voted on by the people and an advisory board. You can read all the details on the contest and submit your idea here. Many good program ideas will be submitted. Is there one idea that can begin to solve all the problems in the world?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. serving students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA") workaround. If you've had kids lugging backpacks with 20 or more pounds of textbooks, the idea of having an 8 oz. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Within the Nonprofit Sector posted by David "DJ" Heyward , American Humanics Student / Team MPhasis Coach Many of us in the nonprofit sector work specifically with children and young adults. How does your nonprofit organization engage youth?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

At this summer's Blogher Conference, I had the opportunity to hear Lauren Gelman , Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society , and Dean of State of Play Academy present at the blogging communities session called, " So, You Have This Crazy Idea." just email her at gelman at Stanford dot edu.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

Over the course of the day, there was so much communication going on — networking between nonprofits; sharing of ideas, knowledge, and experiences; and, maybe most thought-provoking, grantees and funders empathetically listening to each others stories and gaining a glimpse into the "other side" of the process. Great post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things. She described the idea that remixing should be like cake making.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Some people really hate the idea of earned revenues, believing that commerciality makes nonprofits look and act more like businesses, which can erode their special character. Our text, Peter Frumkins On Being Nonprofit makes some strong statements about the place of earned revenues in nonprofit organizations. Those, friends, are big names.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Take a look. read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] The Facebook news is big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Ruth, Religion Newswriters Association December 3, 2008 | Ruth Portnoy Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The idea was to give an inside view of the inner workings of the Walker. Everyone is a Curator. Over the next six months we???ll

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. Ruth, Religion Newswriters Association December 3, 2008 | Ruth Portnoy Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. And, Bookshare’s promise to K-12 students with these kinds of disabilities is that if they need specific titles for school, we’ll get them.

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JULY 11, 2007

Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. the Liberty Hill Foundation has been supporting efforts to train high school students in organizing. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. We can believe it when we see it, but Charity Navigator has ideas about bringing outcomes reporting into its CN3.0. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Investing in the future: Maybe the younger demographic of the social networks will be interested in your organization in the future, so it may not be a bad idea to start building awareness now. What do you think about the idea in this post: [link] ? Very helpful as we weigh the rush into social networking sites. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Investing in the future: Maybe the younger demographic of the social networks will be interested in your organization in the future, so it may not be a bad idea to start building awareness now. What do you think about the idea in this post: [link] ? Very helpful as we weigh the rush into social networking sites. All rights reserved.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

While the Causes idea smartly takes advantage of an existing platform with a huge audience, a deeper dive into the data is revealing. As with any social network campaign, its not a bad idea to ask your existing supporters to help you spread the word on Facebook for you. know about your Cause. All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

While the Causes idea smartly takes advantage of an existing platform with a huge audience, a deeper dive into the data is revealing. As with any social network campaign, its not a bad idea to ask your existing supporters to help you spread the word on Facebook for you. know about your Cause. All rights reserved.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Investing in the future: Maybe the younger demographic of the social networks will be interested in your organization in the future, so it may not be a bad idea to start building awareness now. What do you think about the idea in this post: [link] ? Very helpful as we weigh the rush into social networking sites. All rights reserved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

Im a grad student! And hes certainly got the right idea. Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Lessons Learned and Keys to Success: Thinking of a novel idea was a big part, responsible for the campaigns high volume of free press coverage. The only volunteers used were the 100 students carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. Obviously the novelty of the idea got us lots of free press coverage. i wanna be a part of it.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

Lessons Learned and Keys to Success: Thinking of a novel idea was a big part, responsible for the campaigns high volume of free press coverage. The only volunteers used were the 100 students carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. Obviously the novelty of the idea got us lots of free press coverage. i wanna be a part of it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Human Rights Program – Changing the Field of Human Rights Making the truth matter is the core theme of our human rights work.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Access to a fast, affordable, and open Internet is essential for every child in school, every entrepreneur with a new idea, and anyone who wants full access to government and the democratic process. We are putting some ideas and tools out there to catalyze that creativity. Happy OneWebDay!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s. Yet the Internet visionaries around him, like Joe Trippi and Jerome Armstrong, tried something really new: to get supporters of his views and ideas to self-mobilize, to create support groups, fundraising, canvassing on their own without top-down central direction.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s. Yet the Internet visionaries around him, like Joe Trippi and Jerome Armstrong, tried something really new: to get supporters of his views and ideas to self-mobilize, to create support groups, fundraising, canvassing on their own without top-down central direction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library.

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