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 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The goal of the DIAGRAM R&D Center is to greatly improve access to graphical information for students with print disabilities (for example, helping blind students get access to important graphics inside textbooks). But, it’s turned out to be one of the best surveys of assistive technology we’ve ever seen.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Benetech was a proud endorser of these objections (under our legal organizational name of Beneficent Technology, Inc.). It sure would create more demand for Bookshare in the future, but our primary goal is not to sustain Bookshare, although we will as long as Bookshare is needed.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Most recently, PCL has been a trailblazer in providing mobile technology to their patrons, redefining what library services means. “With shrinking municipal budgets and nonstop technological advancement, public libraries need to be customer-driven and ensure their programs keep pace with patrons’ evolving needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

Most importantly, he walked me through how to frame the goal of any agreement with another organization, and to think through scenarios of how it might go sour. What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers? He called these “imaginary horribles.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2020

With that in mind, Blackbaud has published an eBook entitled “Becoming a Resilient Nonprofit” that includes a round-up of sector resources and critical thinking on key strategies to ensure sustainability. Nonprofit missions grind to a halt without the automation and digital tools that technology brings to the table.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 24, 2022

Engaging Audiences using Mobile Friendly Technology. The session focused on best practices to help attendees understand how they can use technology to grow their donor base and increase engagement with their supporters. Make sure you check out our Auction Games Ebooks for more great ideas to incorporate into your next event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

We believe that this means that circumvention needs to be addressed in the Treaty to ensure that access does not become a dead letter in an increasingly digital world, where people with disabilities get locked out of ebook content by contractual and technical means. Alternative B qualifies this issue so much as to make it ineffective.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

David Grossman , president and founder of The Grossman Group , published in 2010 a helpful, free eBook titled: Mastering The Art of Messaging. Using the 18-page ebook , you''ll learn : what a strategic messaging plan should encompass (and what it shouldn’t). Thanks, as always, David, for another useful ebook!

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Know Your Event Goals. Once you have defined your goals, you can begin to develop the particulars of your content. . Think about your target audience and develop a structure that makes the most sense for both them and your event goals. . A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. Its primary goal is to end the book famine for people with disabilities, ensuring that they have access to the materials they need for education, employment, and social inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The Treaty of Marrakesh, Top Issues: What’s the goal of the Treaty? The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? Technological Protection Measures. It does that in two main ways.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. We also ended up talking about many other issues around getting more books to disabled people, the common goal of all of the attendees.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

That's why Wild Apricot has put together a free Membership Software Selection Guide , to help nonprofit and association leaders choose the best membership website software to match their goals, budgets, and technical know-how. The free downloadable ebook lays out a series of seven easy-to-follow steps for a smooth software review process.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

It is nonprofit technology for use cases like constituent management, fundraising, marketing and communications, and program management. We talk about this and other migration to Salesforce tips in our eBook, Your Guide to Migrating from Raiser’s Edge to Salesforce. Get a 360-Degree View of Constituents.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It supports the Sustainable Development Goals, which mention inclusiveness repeatedly, especially in the context of education. · It helps hasten the development of a domestic electronic book industry in your country, since ebooks are one core format for providing accessible books. · It is politically popular. . ·

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 18, 2007

We'll be working for Guam to help set up a system for assistive technology and media for disabled students with nine Pacific island entities. The week kicked off with a major meeting hosted by the National Federation of the Blind around increased access to ebooks by blind people. Big opportunity to change the world with technology!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Several key points under the avoidance of bureaucracy banner: The goal of the Treaty is to make it easy to make books accessible.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Know Your Event Goals. Once you have defined your goals, you can begin to develop the particulars of your content. . Think about your target audience and develop a structure that makes the most sense for both them and your event goals. . A virtual event is only as good as the technology that supports it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

It’s also the release date of our eBook co-authored with Cuseum , “ The Ultimate Guide to Surviving & Thriving As A Cultural Organization ,” which you can pre-download here. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Digital transformation is, to put it simply, rethinking how our organizations operate through the use of digital technology. Throughout our sector, each and every nonprofit is in a different place when it comes to using digital technologies and foundational data. Question: How will digital transformation help you to diversify revenue?

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 10, 2017

Here you can direct fans to a product, service, your latest webinar or even an ebook. Your goal with a video should be to leave the person who just watched it feeling like you helped them. Tech Impact is a nonprofit whose mission is to empower communities and nonprofits to use technology to better serve our world. Contact Us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

An in-depth guide related to the target issues they care about, tools or templates, case studies, and ebooks are all great examples of this. Your goal should be for your site to pop up whenever anyone looks up your cause. Private companies measure success using KPIs like ROI and sales goals. Join the open source culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work. For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS. Of course, the Librarian of Congress has pronounced on this topic already!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work. For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

For more advice on how to lead your organization through the pandemic, see Grossman’s new (free) ebook, 12 Tips for Employers to Navigate the Future World of Work. For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

Data is more than the annual goal, it’s the incremental statistic that shows us if we’re making progress. Data is also the irrefutable evidence we need to get approval for a new tactic, employee, or technology. If data isn’t part of your nonprofit culture, make that a big goal this year! Analytics Driven Fundraising eBook.

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