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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We all live in a world filled with technology, which can prove to be a help and hinderance to our work and personal lives. Furthermore, for those of us in the nonprofit world who rely on technology every day to do our jobs, the efficiencies gained by this technology can make a significant impact in the funds we deliver to improve social good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. Since we first began offering this option three years ago, Bookshare members have downloaded over 150,000 MP3 files from the collection. government and states like Texas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

When it comes to technology, you get what you pay for. Key benefits of using WP Engine : Daily Backups – full copies of your site’s important files are automatically made every day off-site saving you a lot of time. WP Engine’s one-click staging for testing plugins or new features. 3) Kinesta :: kinsta.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. Our partners proofread the text, fixing mistakes and adding accessibility, and ship us the files back to add to our Bookshare library. Benetech is a tech social enterprise.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. She also said that they learn about new technology mostly by word of mouth throughout their church network. Church Technology Listservs. particularly interesting like her piece 4 Technology Options that Might Kill the Church Bulletin. ChurchTechToday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Last week, the National Federation of the Blind and 22 organizations serving people with disabilities filed detailed objections to a petition from a group of makers of e-reader devices led by Amazon to be exempted from accessibility requirements under the relatively new Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We take their files and convert them to the DAISY format which is a digital format designed specifically to create accessible materials for people with print disabilities. The big advantage of DAISY over typical scanned files is that DAISY includes much more extensive navigation (chapters, sections, page numbers, etc.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 11, 2011

I use LibreOffice for most other writing and editing tasks, although sometimes I must sadly use MS Word for some stuff (like some ebook converters have a harder time with LO files, even formatted as.doc.). (Am I really looking forward to using it, or just looking forward to writing…?).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it’s a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. The ship has sailed.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. Low Technical Risk: We focus on applying existing technologies to bear on social needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 5, 2009

We recently announced partnerships with The University of Chicago Press, the University of California Press and New York University Press, where they will be sending digital files of their books to Bookshare to be made available to people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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. Beyond that, it would be great to work with WIPO to bring Bookshare books and our assistance technology into broader service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? No, we’re not being sued (and we want to keep it that way).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

While we are providing the document as a PDF file also, ebooks are easier to resize fonts and thus easier to read, especially on an e-ink device. Ideally you would be writing them as an HTML file in the first place. E-books are essentially like HTML files, with special tags that makes it easy for devices to parse the data.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

The files are stored on Microsoft’s servers. This blog is too short to get into all of the details of the technology, but if you are interested, go here and download a free copy of Cloud Computing for Nonprofits. There is also a free eBook on Office365 on the same site. NFP technology' We got rid of it.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2014

Getting rejected by seven different technologies is exhausting – in relationships and in fundraising. But just because one form of communication is successful with a majority of your donors doesn’t mean that you should use it to communicate with your entire house file or prospect pool. He replies by sending an email to her at work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2014

Getting rejected by seven different technologies is exhausting – in relationships and in fundraising. But just because one form of communication is successful with a majority of your donors doesn’t mean that you should use it to communicate with your entire house file or prospect pool. He replies by sending an email to her at work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We'd like you to meet Linda Widdop, Tech Impact’s, Director of Technology Services. Linda is one of the great ones in nonprofit technology. As Tech Impact grew, I transitioned into Director of Technology Services where I now provide technology advice and solution development to nonprofits around the globe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. Yet, nonprofits frequently lag behind the for-profit world in applying technology to their work. Benetech has a unique opportunity to repeatedly use technology as a social change agent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. You can provide everyone who completes the hunt with something as simple as a digital file. Worried that you don’t have the tools or technology to carry out the event you really want? 9) Movie screenings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are some of my favorites: ES File Explorer - for browsing files on your device. Their team of journalists pull together a politics and technology news feed that condenses the essential information of the day and makes easy to look at on the small screen. the apps that TechSoup folks like. Wes Holing, Web Content Developer.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Download eBook. This technology can: Send outbid notifications Set maximum bids for users Allow users to build a list of “favorite items” Streamline the item checkout process Facilitate the online registration process with multi-guest capability Allow event purchases like raffle tickets Collect data for key reporting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

However, for those nonprofits that have purchased the ebook version of Mobile for Good it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality and content. Get master copies of Photoshop files for all website and blog graphics from your designer. ? Mobile and Social Fundraising Strategic Plan. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

For those who have purchased the ebook of Mobile for Good , it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality. Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. . □

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. The emergence of new technology alone has led to increases in donor expectations on several fronts—from mission transparency and program reporting to organization access and donor responsiveness. By Gilman Sullivan.

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