Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading. You can donate on my Challenge Fundraising Team Member page. I’d like to thank everyone who has joined us in the Challenge so far.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Benetech team has already accomplished great things for our users, but there is so much more we can do. Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. But what about everybody else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating. Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

was to keep the Benetech team in the loop. There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Bookshare has made my homework easier,” Brennan says. billion poor and unbanked.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

This is what can happen if your team is using general AI prompts on GPT4, the output will seem unique but it will be an average response that many other groups may get. Well, both Georges thought their outfits were pretty unique when they bought them and then chose to wear them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Its employees use Box to share digital asset libraries and collaborate with third-party vendors. Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. Team Rubicon , Habitat for Humanity Australia , and Beyond12 also use Box to achieve their diverse goals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes. Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin client or shared resource computing. Intended Use of the New MultiPoint Server System.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

What do libraries look like in the future? How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Emphasis is on digital literacy. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. What does the next generation of learning environments look like? New set of research methods for this.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual events are much easier to run as they create a complete digital footprint in real-time. Trivia Nights Trivia nights are typically team-focused events that allow you to charge higher entry fees. A portion of those fees goes to the winning team while the rest goes to the nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Mikko noted that when Heureka switched to digital screen-based exhibit labels from graphics, they saw an entirely new behavior: kids reading labels, instead of their parents reading while the kids hit the hands-on elements. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. The London Science Museum team designed an entire exhibition and then left a few open vitrines at the end for visitors to contribute their own toys during the run of the exhibition. There are several good resources on evaluating participation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free.

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