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. In particular, we’re excited about the promise that the appeal court’s ruling holds for the expansion of our efforts to improve access to images. In Authors Guild v.

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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

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. ICA Fund Good Jobs.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2023

Here are some examples of theme ideas: Support your neighbors this year Join the Wildlife Warrior Club Give back to students in your community Pay it forward Unique, branded materials for your campaign will help tie the message to your organization. As the final touch, use images and videos to really make your story come to life.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If why people should care can’t be figured out at a stop light, it’s too complex for a digital audience. Their challenge was to communicate how the seemingly unrelated issues of that merged the issues of abortion access and student loan forgiveness are actually connected. Student loan debt. as an example. . Some background: .

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs): A cryptocurrency token that is an indivisible and unique record on a blockchain associated with a particular digital or physical asset.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 9, 2020

Aside from figuring out how to manage myself and my time, having the right digital tools in place to work with a remote team made a world of difference. Even as we transition out of sheltering in place, you may find a digital tool like Trello helpful for managing your nonprofit's communication program.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. We called it the TechSoup ‘Digital Connector’ Story Challenge. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Brian Solis , Global Innovation Evangelist and Digital Anthropologist, calls this Generation Novel, or Gen N. The digital revolution created hyper-connection. Gen C’s digitally-connected consumers were heavily influenced by the very nature of these experiences. The pandemic hastened digital interactions; the experience evolved.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Is your Ideal Volunteer a college student with a lot of enthusiasm for staffing pet adoption events or tutoring middle-schoolers? For high school and college students, where are the nearby schools? Create a digital flier for each job. Post your digital flier everywhere you think the right prospective volunteer might see it.

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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. Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. This drives us crazy.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

These types of events may also provide a sense of community when distance learning, so it is important to put your best foot forward and consider a more sophisticated virtual event platform so that you are sure to impress parents, students, and possible donors. Schedule one night for your students and family members to meet each other.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

These types of events may also provide a sense of community when distance learning, so it is important to put your best foot forward and consider a more sophisticated virtual event platform so that you are sure to impress parents, students, and possible donors. Schedule one night for your students and family members to meet each other.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

women became the majority of law students. Heather Holdridge , director of digital strategy for Planned Parenthood. Image 1: Jennifer Leahy Photography. Image 2: Jane Meseck. Image 3: Lisa Pool. Image 4 : JD Lasica / CC BY-NC. Image 5 : JD Lasica / CC BY-NC. Image 6: Karen Graham. Shortfalls.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

Biography: Alison Koch is a digital storyteller, technical product manager, design thinker, dog mama, and perpetual American Sign Language student, currently serving as the inaugural Digital Content Producer and strategist at Playwrights Horizons theater in New York City. First Image credit: Paru Ramesh

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Your header image: This is the graphic that appears at the top of your message. I’ve seen too many nonprofit students spend more time on “making their emails pretty,” than is warranted. While every email provider doesn’t display it, it’s worth spending some time on yours (think of it as an extra subject line and give yours some oomph!)

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 22, 2020

Some of the RSA’s videos include drawing and animation features, check out this quick inspirational video, which won an RSA Student Design award. RSPCA’s thumbnails are well designed, colour-coded to show what series the video is a part of, and using images that make it obvious what (or who) the video is about. Greenpeace.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Enhanced public image. Scholarships Businesses often fund scholarships for university students to help cover costs like living expenses and educational materials. Students typically have to seek out and apply for this funding themselves. Start with these additional resources: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits: 6 Key Strategies.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

PowerMyLearning is a new, free online resource that has educational games, videos, and other activities for elementary, middle-school, and high school-aged students. CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

At a recent talk entitled Jobs for the Future: Using Technology to Empower in the Digital Economy , Tess Posner of Samaschool explained that although on-demand freelance technology work is proliferating, those lacking in digital skills will be the most likely to be left behind. Image : Jon Gosier / CC BY. million today to 7.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

In some ways, Generation Z are extreme versions of Millennials, particularly because they are the first generation to be born into a digital lifestyle. They have also been described as the first tribe of digital natives, screenagers, and digital integrators. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling? Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Tuesday, April 12.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. The blog post is written in a first-person perspective.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. Digital Inclusion. so more students will have good access to the Internet. Image 1: Microsoft. Image 2: Cancer Research UK. Gaming for Good.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Lending Free Home Internet Access to Students and Job Seekers. " When implementing a hotspot lending program at her library, Betty had two users in mind: students and job seekers. Her view is, "The digital divide is getting wider and wider, and if you don't have Internet at home, you do get left out of a lot."

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Let’s start by surveying the digital landscape. Countless usability tests have shown that users don’t consume digital content the same way they consume printed content. I’m going to give you all the same facts, and I want each of you to write the ‘lede’ of the story if it was going to appear in the student paper.”.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Up to now our digital selves have been pretty indelible on the Internet. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. Images: Image one: Fog & The Bridge: Mohit Hingorani / CC BY.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2013

UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks! This means more than 2,300 pages of text and an amazing gift for the 250,000+ Bookshare student members we serve.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 11, 2014

I have (tried to) run a nonprofit at my college, a campus magazine set up with attached 501(c)3 entity so as to give us financial flexibility and maintain independence from our student senate and Board of Publications. Instead, it took us a year just to start uploading digital copies of our magazine onto Issuu. 1) Embrace Technology.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2015

Most of these discounts were previously only available to students, schools, or others in the educational marketplace. An image of the JourneyEd.com nonprofit catalog. FinePix SL1000 16 MP Digital Camera (Black). 15" Right Pack Digital Edition Backpack (Black). TG-810 Tough 14 MP Waterproof Digital Camera (Black).

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Let’s look at an example from Fiver: Once upon a time, there were students in New York. Every day, these students struggled with self-esteem, grades, expectations, and friends. Because of that, students know it’s ok to be different. Then one day, community members began mentoring, tutoring, and providing guidance. Be specific.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The participants were tasked with developing digital tools to help nonprofits and government agencies work better together. Image 1: National Day of Civic Hacking, IntelFreePress. Leonard Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Source: AI for Lawyers (Click image for larger version). This summer Communities in Schools is using Alexa to encourage donors to donate a backpack full of school supplies to students in need. The donations are $25 and Amazon will match pledges to the first $200,000.

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