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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. They also provide outreach and user support, which helps us keep our costs low as well as build local capacity to meet accessibility needs. Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format.

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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. Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. What about traditional visitors and supporters who may not want to participate? Yes and no. why not museums?

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. Greenpeace Nordic’s work would be impossible without the support of over 500,000 volunteers from across the Nordic region. Greenpeace Nordic exist because this fragile earth deserves a voice.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. What about traditional visitors and supporters who may not want to participate? Yes and no. why not museums?