Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Next Wednesday, September 17, Creative Commons communication manager (and former TechSouper!) How can we use memes while still respecting copyright and making sure content creators get appropriate credit? copyright Creative Commons storymakers' Your Questions. Don't know what to ask? Here are some examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. copyright law. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

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. Finally, we are thrilled to have Christy Chin step into a new role of Chair of the Benetech Board of Directors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Carrie, who manages the scanning and proofing of books for Bookshare, has worked out a procedure. If we see an error in a book, we can't break the copyright by correcting our digital version. Since I was there to witness it, I want to tell you how it happens. This drives us crazy. students thanks to support from the U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. What It Is. Lost productivity.

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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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

For instance, this past year Google released a web-based Device Manager that allows you to locate, ring at full volume, and wipe data from an Android device. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. There are remedies. Smartwatches. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Copyright infringements: A large portion of historical collections are in the public domain. The Library of Congress advises collection users to go through a risk assessment process for each image they seek to reproduce. Should the museum impose a fee on reproducers or limit their pursuits in other ways?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot software: membership management , event. Mission-Based Management.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Third, we pioneered a novel interpretation of the copyright exception for serving people with disabilities that is built into the basic law of the United States. Bookshare is terrific, but it’s fundamentally a separate system where a specialized library becomes the primary source of books for its patrons.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Nina Card, Scottrade, Robyn Landry, American Heart Association, Miles Sims, VP of Product Management, Small World Labs, and Michael Wilson, Founder/CEO, Small World Labs. Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

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. is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? available for free at your library and on the web. I would take good books off my shelf and measure their margins, scrutinize the heading fonts, and generally muddle my way through. Did you know that most non-fiction books have the page numbers at the top? And that shocked me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. Most often the content has nothing to do with the nonprofit sector or social good, but it does help social media managers get a good understanding of what goes viral on the Web. Learn more at: petitions.whitehouse.gov.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. 99, the app is a must-download for mobile social media managers. At a cost of only $.99,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn ! " Looks like MySpace is also getting sued for copyright violation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

I feel quite strongly about this because of how well a balanced copyright law can work, and does work, right here in the United States. We have the policies and we have the technology to make sure that, as Bookshare''s General Manager Betsy Beaumon says, "All materials that are born digital are born accessible." under a Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. If we’re going to speak truth to power, then we need to make sure that we are speaking truth.

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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. There’s also the GIMP Basics tutorial, which is more geeky, but still manageable. It does professional color management. It describes most of the major Photoshop tools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

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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