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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation. 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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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Given the increasing use of cell phones and other mobile technologies by students and employees, as well as the rise of BYOD policies, your. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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2015 Jim Lynch Award Winner — Kyle Wiens of iFixit

Tech Soup

The teardowns lead to repairability ratings , in which each device is rated on a 1 to 10 scale. Library of Congress, working with the U.S. Copyright Office, completed its "triannual" rulemaking on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The huge Volkswagen scandal seems to have helped the cause.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. In addition to text quotes, Quoto also has a digital library of quotes embedded on images. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook Page Barometer is a tool that enables you to compare your nonprofit’s Facebook Page Insights (Reach, Engagement, Click-through Rate) to other pages that have signed up for the service (currently 3,300+). A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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