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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. Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia.

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

Care2

They talked about how to actually go about making a video and what equipment to use and also how to make the video spread through the Internet, or go viral. 2) Create a Video Library Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 , stressed the importance of creating a video library. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? available for free at your library and on the web. This relationship translates to two benefits: faster availability on Amazon and a better cut on each sale. But this relationship is even more important in the long term when it comes to dollars and cents.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. the work of copyright holders.

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6 Link Building Methods for Nonprofits and Charities

ASU Lodestar Center

Link earning is building relationships with valuable websites within ones specific industry that generate high quality content. Because many people use the internet as a means to express themselves and display their identity, content that relates to people is often shared more. Mainstream internet virality is niche marketing.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had a joint meeting (both Republicans and Democrats) with the key Senate Judiciary Committee staff who are the copyright experts, and learned a lot about the process. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. Student privacy. Enough said!

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