Digital eBook Grant Technology 
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 31, 2014
Last September, I wrote a Beneblog post: Objecting to Accessibility Weaseling , about Amazon and other ebook reader makers trying to dodge out on making their devices accessible. The refusal to grant an indefinite waiver is a big deal, because it will keep accessibility on the agenda. This is an update on that fight.
Qgiv
MARCH 30, 2022
Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. I began a reading binge.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille.
Tech Soup
JULY 29, 2014
Proteus Digital Health is developing pills with sensors in them called ‘ingestibles’ Each ingestible sensor is the size of a grain of sand and doesn’t contain any toxic substances. Glide in San Francisco recently won a big Google Impact Challenge grant to supply cloud-based document storage to the homeless people it serves.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
The next time you set your digital device of choice to record your favorite show so you can watch it whenever you want, take a moment to be thankful that you’re protected from lawsuits from the entertainment industry. It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube.
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