Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. These milestones represent a giant leap forward in the number of students and individuals we serve.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. We also picked up books Carrie had previously ordered - including special requests from students who need specific texts for their classes. students thanks to support from the U.S. This drives us crazy.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I’m honored to join my fellow contributors in sharing practical lessons we’ve learned throughout our journeys towards actualizing positive social change. We’re learning new ways to create and sustain social value. copyright law. I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened.

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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

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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. fulfilling job or learning responsibilities. Given the increasing use of cell phones and other mobile technologies by students and employees, as well as the rise of BYOD policies, your. Educational organizations walk a fine line: enabling student access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

As a university with a strong commitment to serving students with vision impairments (having over XXX such students), the U is very interested in participating with Bookshare.org.in. It's a huge university: more than 100,000 students including their open university extension. And, there was a cow or two on my sojourn!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

It was a great week for learning and connecting, with over 500 people attending the Phoenix Business Journals Fourth Annual Nonprofit Business Summit , which engaged nonprofit and business leaders in dialogue and educational sessions. In the spirit of learning, weve put together a fun quiz on Arizonas nonprofit sector. I got a 4.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Okay, okay — I stole this slogan from the U.S. Marine Corps. So, sue me!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Since we're a partner of Hadley's (our goal is to be the school library for their students), Hadley's president, Chuck Young, invited me and other Hadley supporters to accompany him and his staff on this celebratory trip. I learned a lot about how blind people deal with Chinese: I thought it would be a difficult language to make accessible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work. Stay tuned.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

posted by Sarah Hipolito , Program Coordinator, Senior ASU Lodestar Center If Ive learned anything in my brief six years, 10 months, and 27 days of marriage, its that, in addition to love, communication is key in growing and maintaining a good relationship. May 1, 2011 11:34 PM Paulsaid. 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. I followed the profile to the blog and discovered Brian Lamb's Abject Learning.

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See3

JANUARY 10, 2008

The conference, geared towards established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students, is a place where leading-edge practitioners learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters. Click here to register and learn more. 7-8 at American University. SPACE IS LIMITED!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Guide your students to conversations and resources. I'm nervous. Step 1: Find People.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org. In regards to your comments on connections I learned more about this in the past few weeks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010. I know from my own personal experience as a nonprofit student, I really had to educate myself in order to change my perspective about fair compensation.

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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. Amy Eldridge: I was a complete newbie to Facebook, so I had to learn as I went on how to best do promotion.

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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. Amy Eldridge: I was a complete newbie to Facebook, so I had to learn as I went on how to best do promotion.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

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. Learn to listen more than you talk, and by that I don’t just mean wait quietly for your turn to speak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Note that this is a research/learning approach that is key to success of Web2.0 ll be inviting all kinds of people, including designers, artists, young people, families, students and Tate staff, to share their ideas. The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Another theme of web2.o

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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. Over the course of this past semester, teams of students have been working through the rating process for a pool of organizations. But thats okay.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

The good side of this transition is that we will be able to hire experts to take on new campaigns instead of learning it all ourselves and making newbie mistakes. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can. All rights reserved.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

The good side of this transition is that we will be able to hire experts to take on new campaigns instead of learning it all ourselves and making newbie mistakes. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can. All rights reserved.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Read on to learn this experts view on the current state of nonprofits and online video, tips and hints on how to maximize your videos impact, and how much all of this really costs. Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

ASB is a great opportunity for college students who choose to spend their spring breaks volunteering in communities across the country. Since 2006, nearly 2,000 students have participated in ASB, volunteering over 64,000 hours of service. Shelina had no response. Its a pretty good question, right? March 31, 2011 4:28 PM Laura E.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Does anyone know of resources to help me learn to track and do this kind of research/outcomes work? Together with the students of the Social Media Academy we developed a calculation which includes Sales, Marketing, Support, Product development, Logistics, Procurement. Very helpful as we weigh the rush into social networking sites.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Does anyone know of resources to help me learn to track and do this kind of research/outcomes work? Together with the students of the Social Media Academy we developed a calculation which includes Sales, Marketing, Support, Product development, Logistics, Procurement. Very helpful as we weigh the rush into social networking sites.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Does anyone know of resources to help me learn to track and do this kind of research/outcomes work? Together with the students of the Social Media Academy we developed a calculation which includes Sales, Marketing, Support, Product development, Logistics, Procurement. Very helpful as we weigh the rush into social networking sites.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2011

Im a grad student! I will make it my goal to research a new organization I have either heard about or learned about and give to them, at least, once a month. Hopefully learning to budget our money a little better will enable us to help out more than we thought we could. I always have excuses -- Im too busy!

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

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. An icon of the cause shows up on your profile page and your friends get notified about it and anyone on your page can then click to donate or learn more. [.] First a little background.

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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. They learned of our avatars and we decided to ship 140 avatars overseas--a logistical nightmare (imagine getting them through US customs! - The time invested, is hard to say.

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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. They learned of our avatars and we decided to ship 140 avatars overseas--a logistical nightmare (imagine getting them through US customs! - The time invested, is hard to say.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

What was the most surprising thing you learned from writing this book? While I was in Washington recently, I visited a former student of mine who creates Web videos for John McCain. I tell my students that they should have an open mind, and I use a food analogy to explain what I mean. This is a large, complicated issue.

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