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. I would like to especially thank Noa Ronkin, Kristina Pappas and Robin Seaman for their extensive work in developing this three-part blog series.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

This has created the ironic situation where blind people, who because of their disability require access to digital copies, have been effectively locked out of purchasing ebooks for the last decade. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States. In some markets, printed books are receding into the past. Bookshare).

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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 This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

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. Resources Deluxe – their blog, ebooks, help docs, and design trends are seriously useful and well designed resources that any nonprofit marketing team should check out. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We really love this approach, which we think of making our money work twice. For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. We call this our social enterprise supply chain. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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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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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

During a hectic work day where many can only squeeze in a lunch break between firing off emails, it can be hard to know if you’re making your donors feel appreciated or if you’re giving them the impression that they’re getting copy and paste interactions. How’s work? What does gratitude mean to you? How would others describe you?

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The biggest area of our work to date is for schools in the U.S., 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. Work directly with publishers and authors.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As I result, I will give them another gift this year, even though I do not live in the area in which they work. Send something donors can feel great about right away, and that they can also file away for tax purposes. Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script. I am very impressed with their follow-up.

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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

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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It is not calculated by individual donors but by an average of your file. For example, if your average donor has been on file for 5 years, gives an average of 3 gifts per year, with an average gift amount of $25 your average donor lifetime value is $375. Survey your file. Does it work?

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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. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

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. The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust.

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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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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 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. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ebook Website Optimization Action Plan Learn More 2. Include stunning heartwarming images of the work you do on the page where you share your impact numbers. Make sure your “About” page includes photos of your organization’s leadership and staff so people can see who’s behind the work.

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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. 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. Girl meets boy. She calls him back at home.

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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. 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. Girl meets boy. She calls him back at home.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

You should outsource it (instead of designing it yourself) and make sure that you have vector files. All the standard traffic-gen strategies will work for your online summit. You can also post ebooks and use content marketing to educate interested registrants. Work hard to improve event engagement.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

The files are stored on Microsoft’s servers. There is also a free eBook on Office365 on the same site. Get rid of IT and get back to your important work of saving the world. Not only is email part of the Office365 package, but it includes something called SharePoint. The point is, we do not have a server anymore.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

7 Online Fundraising Ideas (That Actually Work): 1. They work by matching your database with Facebook, creating a custom audience. Then click the “Create Audience” drop-down and select “Customer File.” CSV file or MailChimp list to import. Custom Facebook Audiences.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

You should outsource it (instead of designing it yourself) and make sure that you have vector files. All the standard traffic-gen strategies will work for your online summit. You can also post ebooks and use content marketing to educate interested registrants. Work hard to improve event engagement.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Strategy only works when it’s based on heartfelt beliefs and deep commitment. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. T ake stock of what’s still not working with your donor retention program and ask the donor advisory board how to do better! p.s. Look out for our upcoming eBook on donor retention.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

I figured the same system would work for the book, and so far, it seems to be bearing fruit. Few people want to read a 388-page book online, and I've received several notes from people who checked out the online version and then decided to buy a physical or ebook copy. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license. How Did I Do It?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

TechSoup : Could you tell us a bit about your background - how long you've been with Tech Impact, what work you do, and what you enjoy most about providing tech consulting to nonprofits? 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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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s not too late, you can download our latest eBook to help you prepare. Forced to adapt during the pandemic, many organizations made a shift to a digital strategy for the first time, continuing their mission-critical work while making impressive pivots to achieve new and better results for their communities. Shirin Birjandi.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, creating any digital guide (petition, checklist, infographic, eBook, online course) is not enough to ensure success. Audio files or Videos. eBook/checklist/white paper/report. eBook/checklist/white paper. You need to make sure that what you create actually solves a problem your potential donors want to solve!

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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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