Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. A note about Bookshare Bookshare , the world’s largest accessible online library, serves more than 100,000 readers with visual impairments, and physical or learning disabilities. This drives us crazy. students thanks to support from the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

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 : Scribd, Blog, Flickr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Zeen is a new product soon-to-be launched by YouTube’s co-founders that will allow users to “discover and create beautiful magazines.” TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. At a cost of only $.99, Flipboard :: flipboard.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Some nice screencasts on how to use wikis can be found at the Commons, a wiki magazine for nonprofits in Silicon Valley.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. Both applications are used to create print documents like flyers, brochures, newsletters, annual reports and full-blown magazines. Scribus is the primary In-Design freeware clone.

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