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. Here are five ways I believe having the right technology and good data – no matter what platforms or software you use – makes our work lives less stressful, more productive, and happier at MaineCF.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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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. We really love this approach, which we think of making our money work twice. Benetech is a tech social enterprise. We call this our social enterprise supply chain.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We've worked with O'Reilly Media for a long time. 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. More and more publishers are asking that we return to them the DAISY files we create.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 11, 2011

Then someone started to work on S crivener for Windows and Linux. 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.). Almost enough to make a grown woman cry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. Ron Schultz's latest book, Creating Good Work Creating Good Work arrives at a critical time for the social entrepreneurial movement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The biggest area of our work to date is for schools in the U.S., Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology. We embed the user's name in the downloaded ebook file, both explicitly ("This book was downloaded by Jim Fruchterman") as well as hiding the same information invisibly inside the main body of the book.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. of America v.

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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 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.

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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. Benetech has some of the juiciest and most exciting range of legal challenges I can imagine: the great majority of our legal work concerns intellectual property and human rights.

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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

He follows up by leaving a voicemail at her work. He replies by sending an email to her at work. Getting rejected by seven different technologies is exhausting – in relationships and in fundraising. That would be like using the same pick up line on every girl in a bar, hoping one works. Girl meets boy.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2014

He follows up by leaving a voicemail at her work. He replies by sending an email to her at work. Getting rejected by seven different technologies is exhausting – in relationships and in fundraising. That would be like using the same pick up line on every girl in a bar, hoping one works. Girl meets boy.

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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. Linda Widdop : My tech background began in 1993 when I got a job at a PC manufacturing company in Philadelphia working on an assembly line.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. But, it’s always useful to explore the framework of one’s work. Osberg & Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, 2015.

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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. These types of events also work well alone or in small groups. 9) Movie screenings. 14) Gaming tournaments.

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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. See more about it in Ginny Mies’ Five Task Manager Apps to Make Your Work Day Easier. Mail+ – is an app that let's me get my work Outlook email on my phone in a fully featured way. Here’s how it works.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Make sure supporters know how bidding will work as they’re registering. Download eBook. Web-based bidding uses features from both online and mobile bidding technology to deliver a virtual auction experience via a web browser on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device (like Google Chrome or Safari). Bidding Software. Text-to-Give.

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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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