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DIAGRAM Center

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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The Kindle: Pretty Cool!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Amazon.com: Kindle This is the first ebook product that gives me a vision of where the book is going to go. The flash at each page turn was initially bothersome, but quickly faded from notice. I am imagining students with complete libraries without having to carry twenty pounds in their backpacks! It's comfortable to hold and to read.

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Emotions vs. Numbers| Developing the Right Strategy for Your Next Fundraising Appeal

Connection Cafe

Images of abandoned, starving, and abused animals are flashed on the screen as Sarah implores us for a donation which will, we’re to assume, help alleviate the suffering of the animals shown in these gripping images. Download this eBook for detailed instruction on raising more with your next fundraising appeal! .

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A Message from Your Donors: Wish You Were Here

Connection Cafe

Guest post by Marshall Simmonds, Senior Vice President of Flash mobs and an Account Manager at Blackbaud. Download this new eBook written by 13 npExperts! He’s passionate about working with Blackbaud’s clients to solve their complex business issues. — It’s rather funny where inspiration often comes from. photo cred: Tim Norris.

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MagnaFlyer: New Tech Helping People with Central Vision Loss

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Denny Moyer, Executive Director of Colorado-based Ensight Skills Centers for Low Vision Rehabilitation , who introduced me to MagnaFlyer, told me that users can read a given amount of text several times faster by having the words rapidly flash by in this way, when compared to traditional approaches to reading the same text.

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Win Back Your Lapsed Donors

Bloomerang

So there’s actually an eBook they wrote on donor acquisition. There’s no real, you know, flashing lights and, you know, “You suck,” or anything like that. I would have scheduled it for 8 hours if I could, because these two, I’ve really been learning quite a bit from over the past year or so.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

Tech Soup

There isn’t a mobile version yet, but there is something called Gimp Portable that fits on a flash drive that you can plug in to a Windows PC. It also creates digital documents like eBooks, reports, PDFs, and webpages. It apparently works in Windows 7, but not Windows 8 as yet. Scribus is the primary In-Design freeware clone.

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