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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re grateful to our socially responsible publishing partners who give us world rights to their titles, even though they are not required to do so under international copyright law. Our partners are responsible for verifying and maintaining records of each member’s proof of disability – a process that is best done with local knowledge.

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Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s the lobbying position of some companies in the intellectual property field when implementing the new Marrakesh Copyright Treaty. Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion.

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment. Tags: print disabled print disabilities Kanter Wiley Flatworld copyright OERs Creative Commons Schwarzenegger Plotkin CC Bookshare.

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You Have a Google Grant—Now What? A Guide for Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

This can be done with other duties, but having one person responsible for the Google grant ensures that they have the knowledge they need to make the most of it. Considering you have up to $10,000 worth of ads to use each month, the only limits are your knowledge and creativity. Geo-Targeting. Often, these keywords are easy to avoid.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

ASU Lodestar Center

With keynote speakers Travis Manzione (Director of Assessment Tools for The Center for Effective Philanthropy ) and Charles Best (Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org ), and a panel representing local nonprofits and funders (including Ear Candy , Phoenix Youth at Risk , SRP , and Virginia G.

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10 Best Web Content Practices - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Thx for enriching my knowledge. My post can be read at [link] May 2, 2009 | param Copyright © 2008, Care2.com April 14, 2009 | Martin Smith neat write up. They complement my post on the similar topic nicely. I missed some points in my post which i found here. All rights reserved.