Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our first partner in this work was Digital Divide Data, an organization that has an outstanding training program in the area of data entry and outsourcing. and ship the images and recognized text to Laos (and several other countries with other partners, including of course the U.S.). We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the last step of this digital marketing plan, we’re going to share SEO strategies and tactics we use to increase search rankings on Google. How to measure and track digital marketing success. Digital Marketing Plan Chapters. Chapter 1: Digital Marketing Plan. Chapter 3: Digital Promotion Strategies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. You can read more about our position in the Amicus Brief , which we filed jointly with our peer organization, Learning Ally. In Authors Guild v. copyright law).

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Donorbox

JULY 15, 2022

Their products allow people to: Create, edit, and share digital images and videos Combine and compare files Create fillable forms Export PDF files that anyone can view Manage documents that people can use across all devices Thanks to […].

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There are more places than ever to get free images that are entirely OK for you to use for your communications. Here are 10 sources for images you can freely use on your website or other communications channels. Where to Find Free Images. Google Advanced Image Search lets you filter your search by usage rights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. Enable Media Replace – easily replace an image or file without having to delete, rename, and re-upload to the Media Library. SEO and Social Sharing.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

Armed with the right CMS, you’ll be in great shape to meet your organization’s digital goals. Annual filing requirements To strengthen your visual design, you need to adhere to web accessibility best practices. Web design branding can be broken down into two main categories: verbal branding and visual branding.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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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.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

Forum One worked with the Pacific Science Center to redesign and develop its website in WordPress to highlight the museum’s post-pandemic reopening and connect audiences with its expanded slate of digital events and exhibits. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Image Credit: Jon Tyson on unsplash.com X Corp, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a nonprofit dedicated to exposing and counteracting digital hate speech which has published research critical of the tech company’s handling of hate speech on its platform.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. As a result of these efforts, coupled with legal actions, in 2019, the IRS began mandating the electronic filing of all 990s as open data. They are currently in the process of delivering on this goal.

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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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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

New records for sales of the digital good seem to be reached each week with an upcoming sale of NFT artist Beeple’s ‘Everydays’ compilation went for $69 million in March, 2021 (source: The Verge ). Image: Beeple. NFT stands for non-fungible token, which is a digital asset similar to Bitcoin. Confused yet?

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Not only is the amount of paper they generate cumbersome for your staff to file and organize, but paper waivers make it difficult to find specific files if an incident does occur. Some of the benefits of using online waivers include: Waivers are stored electronically rather than in cluttered physical files.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach to direct mail. In this guide, we’ll explore the basics of donor acquisition and some nonprofit digital marketing best practices for finding new donors. Engage new donors from the start with compelling digital marketing. Let’s get started! Learn More!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2012

The recent upgrades in our Bookshare site and service such as the new audio formats, images, and image descriptions motivated several Members to share their thoughts, and we sought their permission to share those thoughts with you! I don't have a VR Stream or a Booksense; I just use the NLS digital talking book player.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

TechSoup's DigiToolbox is back to demo another tool you can pick up to tell your digital story. Step 4 - Add Images & Music. Using the Web and Internet video tsdigs digital storytelling tstellingyourstory' Have you heard of Animoto? In the video we created together, I used the "Vibrance" template style.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task. There’s so much more we could do to advance the path towards full digital inclusion of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the digital era of healthcare, ‘Dr. Factors like improperly sized images and inaccessible layouts can contribute to a longer loading time. You can sidestep these issues by investing in a healthcare-specific content management system (CMS) and compressing your image files before publishing.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2017

Whether you call it an annual fundraising plan or a communications road map, now is your chance to push the envelope on your ongoing digital efforts to engage constituents, grow your list, and raise money. You need to send the right content to the right segment of your file at the right time. Image : denizya / Shutterstock.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

You carefully consider the subject line and preview pane, email copy, images and design, and call to action. The folks at NextAfter conducted a controlled experiment where they increased the number of emails sent to a client’s file. I’m guessing you put a lot of effort into crafting your nonprofit’s email messages. Need proof?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. This could involve: Running digital ads on a consistent daily/weekly basis to stay top-of-mind. Lean into what works.

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Kindful

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Nonprofit Advertising Benchmark Study is a report from Whole Whale , a B Corp digital agency that works with nonprofit and social impact organizations. The organizations we chose disclosed an annual revenue from 2018-2019 (filing years 2019 and 2020) of somewhere between $1 million and $10 million. . 501(c)(3) organizations.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A Better Website is Worth the Money Your website serves as a digital hub for your organization. Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans. Include stunning heartwarming images of the work you do on the page where you share your impact numbers. In today’s ever-expanding online world, that’s important.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I now review books that are scanned and uploaded in formats that can be read using different forms of assistive technology such as text-to-speech, digital Braille or enlarged fonts. While publishers do donate thousands of digital texts to Bookshare, the NYT bestsellers are added to the collection through a "people process."

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

To help nonprofits understand the tools available to them and how they can be incorporated into their digital strategies , this guide will explore three uses of modern nonprofit technology. Donor Analytics Tools Nonprofits need to know who their donors are, what gift amounts to request, and when and how to request those gifts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 10, 2015

You can also upload bulk files of posts at once and make your content available to other Post Planners and Facebook experts. By syncing with the Canva tool, you can create an image and directly post it to Facebook, Tumblr and other outlets. Creating Digital Destinations that Build Communities and Change Lives.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

You carefully consider the subject line and preview pane, email copy, images and design, and call to action. The folks at NextAfter conducted a controlled experiment where they increased the number of emails sent to a client’s file. I’m guessing you put a lot of effort into crafting your nonprofit’s email messages. Need proof?

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2017

After all, it doesn't matter how good your antivirus is if someone can get hold of your computer and snoop through your files (or load it up with cat pictures). Besides, you keep a current backup of all your files, right? ;). Image 1: TechSoup. Image 2: Kensington. Images 3 and 4: TechSoup. About the Author.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2015

With Photoshop, you can do everything from quickly tuning up photos to controlling every detail of your digital vision in one powerful application. That's why TechSoup wants to help you learn the basics for cleaning up photos and creating images that you can use in print and online, including on social media. Logo File (.eps,

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

This item converts audio signals from your microphone into digital audio signals for your computer. You’ll use your computer to record, edit, and publish your podcast files. This includes your podcast’s icon, feature images for each episode, and the landing page. Editing software. Computer or laptop. Hosting site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Empowered by Square Cash , you can easily send digital payments to Snapchat Friends provided both of you have entered your debit card information in Shapchat Settings.

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