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[FREE WEBINAR] 10 Emerging Trends in Social Media for Small Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Phone numbers are provided for those in the United States, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The survey is 100% anonymous and available in 4 languages.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The third pillar of Bookshare International is developing new language capabilities. My second blog post in this series will describe how we are growing our Spanish-language program. This is an area of special focus for our Bookshare team. My next two blog posts will be on this topic.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries.

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Find the Charlie’s, Justine’s, and Edna’s in your network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A cancer-surviving grandma in Denmark re-posts and says “den bedste!”. A Danish friend sees this and translates the image into three languages (she’s a“Charlie”). She shares it with her friends to show she’s hip, cool, and with her niece. Friends “like” it. So the cycle continues. The results?

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’ve increased our Spanish collection, with thousands more Spanish titles coming soon from our partner Random House Mondadori, one of the largest Spanish language publishers in the world. These partners work with us to offer Bookshare to their constituents, helping ensure good service as well as compliance with the rules of the road.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. They may feature community gardens or exhibit labels in languages tailored to locals. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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