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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He My idea was completely legal!

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National Library Week and Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Blog from Amy McNeely, Bookshare Librarian This past week, April 12th through April 18th, was National Library Week. Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. This year’s theme was “Worlds connect @ your library.” Bookshare is a unique library.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo sharing websites have been around for over a decade, but Flickr was one of the first photo sharing services to use keyword tags to encourage connections between photos and users. 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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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program. Aradium is a new service that enables nonprofits and small businesses to create and host online stores inside of their Facebook Pages. For nonprofits that sell products online, Aradium offers their service to legal 501c3 organizations for free.

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