Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just concluded last week. Since many of our organizations operate as libraries, we note that commercial availability of a book rarely impacts the availability of that book on the shelves of a library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Section 121 of the Copyright Act, also known as the Chafee Amendment (17 U.S.C. Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

This year, for the first time, IDPD is commemorated with supporting sub-themes (see the full list here ), to draw attention to key issues that come into play in the intersection of disability and development processes. Our innovative approach has revolutionized the traditional library for people with print disabilities. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

While publishers do donate thousands of digital texts to Bookshare, the NYT bestsellers are added to the collection through a "people process." During this process, Carrie tells the three of us proofreaders (I’m one of them) which books are available for review - and helps negotiate who will take which book. This drives us crazy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Legal liability, copyright infringement and harassment claims. For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. State legislation is a fluid process so you should check to ensure you have the latest information. Lost productivity.

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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. By the end of the process, I was ready to send flowers to the guy who made these videocasts about InDesign --they were a lifesaver. Getting the book out the door was just the start of the publishing process.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. North York Community creates powerful digital stories by geting their constituents involved with hands-on training that brings them into the creation process.

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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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Sweepstakes is open to individuals, submitting on behalf of nonprofit organizations and libraries all over the world, who are attending the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") in Washington, DC. The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions (Short). NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. The internal team is led by a non-curator. They kept the interface simple.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. The legal framework for Bookshare is the Section 121 copyright exception in federal copyright law: all Bookshare users must have a disability that qualifies under that section. serving students with print disabilities.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g. Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. The organization is also creating DVD’s of some of the videos to send to prospective donors.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. The organization is also creating DVD’s of some of the videos to send to prospective donors.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. In 2009, our challenge becomes how to harness these tools for in order to reopen the policy-making process. Whitehouse.gov 2.0: Panel presentation followed by brainstorming session.

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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. the work of copyright holders. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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Global Giving

JULY 12, 2017

Determining who is responsible for what in the filmmaking process is imperative. What process will you follow? Who has the copyright to the footage? Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Who is responsible for what? Agree together on what steps will be included in each phase.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for capturing contact information for your mailing list, event registrations, and even customizing PayPal into your website for donation processing, Wufoo is well-reviewed and reasonably priced. Donations could be made simply with two taps on your smartphone and processed without having to through the mobile carriers. Present.me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

You’ll see your panorama being built in realtime as every incoming frame is processed. Easelly allows you to easily to create infographics for your nonprofit by using pre-designed templates and a simple drag-and-drop process for data integration. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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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. If you want a document to look professional with images, multi-column layout, sidebars and other design elements it’s worth moving beyond word processing to page layout.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Mainly, it was interesting to hear the perspective of a bunch of fellow tech advisors and be part of a process of collectively getting smarter. 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. Student privacy.

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