Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Unfortunately, these TPMs create collateral damage in the form of disabling or hindering activities that are generally permitted. This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

These are exciting times for everyone who’s been working to meet the accessibility imperative, as we are witnessing global movements that will increase accessible publishing and create new and better opportunities for people with disabilities. The first is the shift to electronic distribution of published materials.

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Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

Create opportunities to learn in the online spaces you already frequent. And if you prefer books, check out Candid’s library of ebooks and audiobooks. Photo credit: Kateryna Onyshchu via Getty Images) The post Zero-cost, maximum-impact professional development for fundraisers appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This strategy encourages your supporters to engage with each other and their friends and creates further awareness for your nonprofit by spreading your mission to new audiences. Check out their website and the image below for inspiration. Try creating videos to share across your social media platforms. Prepare your fundraisers.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

While there are standard reports built in Raiser’s Edge, if you need to create custom and specialized reports, you would have previously had to use Crystal Reports for Blackbaud. The solution can take your data and make it easier for you to create custom reports and dashboards to understand and take action with your data.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a computer science field aiming to create programs capable of mimicking cognitive functions and automate tedious tasks. The three main types of AI you should know about: Generative AI are programs that can use your input to create new content, from images to texts to music. AI Writing Assistant.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. DIAGRAM This increase in accessible images would not have been possible without great tools. Thanks again! Luckily, we know some people who are into that stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. When we do something that creates entry level jobs in quantity, we reach out to social enterprise partners who specialize in job creation and training.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Your Best Peer-To-Peer Fundraising Campaign [eBook]. Qgiv: [Free Ebook] 2020 #GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide. Qgiv put together a free ebook packed full of helpful resources. As you prepare your marketing plan, you’ll need a variety of assets like graphics, images, banners, and messaging. Here you go!

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ebook Website Optimization Action Plan Learn More 2. Neon Websites offers a host of dynamic, responsive design options and widgets that teams can use to create a positive user experience. Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans. This means you should include visual content on your nonprofit website—and lots of it.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 12, 2021

To raise additional funds for a construction project, PJCC created a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign with Qgiv’s tools. Participants could create their own fundraising pages and were encouraged to bike, walk, or run 3.4 Different images next to individual donation amounts help donors visualize the impact their gift will have.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

To better understand why promoting “breathing space” for creativity is crucial for copyright to achieve its purpose of encouraging innovation, consider some examples from Benetech’s work that demonstrate how copyright exceptions can create a framework for innovation in action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It is the Power of We that changes the way we create transformative positive change. By partnering with all these stakeholders, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community. With support from the Bookshare community, we changed that reality.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

They’re being created mainly to help mental health patients adhere to a prescription medication regimen. Le-Marie Thompson who is creating an online conflict-free electronics database, a source for companies to get information about reputable electronics parts suppliers worldwide. Free Microsoft Technical eBooks.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When creating an effective follow-up appeal, keep in mind that it should be: Shorter. Repeat the theme, look, layout, message, and images they’ll have seen in your first appeal. . Download our Year-End Fundraising eBook for more year-end fundraising tips! This appeal should be briefer than the first appeal. . Consistent.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

WP Engine dashboard with auto backups that are easy to restore, download, and manually create WP Engine. Local Development – Flywheel stands out with free software they’ve made that lets developers easily create a local WordPress site so you don’t have to bother with setting it up yourself. 1) WP Engine :: wpengine.com.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

When we ask for it out of order, we create anxiety in the mind of the person on the other side of the screen. Let’s look at a couple of experiments we conducted with nonprofit organizations to help re-order the conversation in order to create a more logical flow, and increase conversions. The treatment produced a 7.7% Wrapping up….

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2021

Anything you can do to help your participants create a compelling page in a short period of time will benefit everyone. Suggest talking points, share some tips, and give them access to images, videos. , Try giving them email templates they can use to create compelling email appeals very quickly. Check out our eBook “.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind. Being more adaptive and less rigid also creates the opportunity for serendipity. The data and its related systems, however, can take us only so far.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Before walking through the steps to create your own, let’s go over the six must-have elements of an effective, reliable fundraising strategy. Not only do great events raise money, but they also create lasting memories that inspire long-term relationships with your donors. There are eight key steps to creating your fundraising plan.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2016

In a nutshell, content marketing is simply the strategy of creating high-value content that attracts an audience, in the hope that some portion of that audience will convert — carry out the action we want them to, in this case donate or volunteer. I don't mean sales copy, or copy created to elicit donations. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

You can create and manage your emergency contact lists. In addition, TechSoup offers a free disaster planning and recovery guide ebook, The Resilient Organization. Image: Microsoft's HelpBridge. The app has a settings menu where you can turn on or off each type of notification. Set-up your emergency contact list.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

De’Yonté’s a late-80s baby who found his passion for web design and development during MySpace’s heyday, when he helped his friends create awesome profiles. Invest in a custom design, created by someone who understands nonprofits. About De’Yonté Wilkinson: De’Yonté is the Director of Site Builds at Cornershop Creative.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 10, 2017

Just because you created a Facebook page for your nonprofit doesn’t mean people are going to visit to it. Create a 150 and 300 word bio for your short and long description. Tip 3: Create a Branded Cover Photo. Here you can direct fans to a product, service, your latest webinar or even an ebook. on a much wider scale.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

While we are providing the document as a PDF file also, ebooks are easier to resize fonts and thus easier to read, especially on an e-ink device. One step of the conversion process involves creating a table of contents, a primary feature found in e-books. Image: TechSoup. Have you tried out new e-book formats?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2017

After all, you don’t want to just share numbers and small bits of boring facts—you want to use this information to create content and messages that inspire. Below are a handful of ways to solve these problems with data, as well as examples of how other organizations have created infographics to help them expand their operations.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Powerful images. The best approach when creating content for an online fundraising appeal is to envision the whole project as a campaign. An online appeal is bigger than an email—it has multiple parts that fit together to create one compelling story. Create engaging subject lines (it all begins here). They must delight.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

" Program is creating new distribution channels for affordable produce to low-income people. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The really essential things to do are to: Create a Technology Asset Inventory to figure out what technology you already have. TechSoup also offers a free eBook, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery. Images: Mobile Beacon. How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan. Additional Resources. online magazine.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The tough part is to cater to these older audiences while still creating a digital experience that appeals to younger constituents. When creating content for these platforms, be sure to use stories and lots of images, as these will have the most appeal to audiences across all age ranges.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Images of abandoned, starving, and abused animals are flashed on the screen as Sarah implores us for a donation which will, we’re to assume, help alleviate the suffering of the animals shown in these gripping images. Download this eBook for detailed instruction on raising more with your next fundraising appeal! .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2015

Figure out who your audience is by surveying your constituents and then creating personas. If you can identify information like demographics, interests, and the source of their origin to the organization, you can create targeted content. Create a Welcome Series. Donors aren’t just donors. Share More then News.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2020

The trick is knowing which tools to use that will make all the pieces come together and create a polished, powerful, and successful virtual fundraising event. Another option is to create a Facebook Group and invite-only registrants into it. Another option is to create a Facebook Group and invite-only registrants into it.

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