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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

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Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), thanks to our Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books. Channels used: Twitter, Skype, Blog.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

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Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. fulfilling job or learning responsibilities. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. fulfilling job or learning responsibilities.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Reform Copyright. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. But did you know that our work is global? Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

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

Museum 2.0

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.