Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year. Here’s some resources for doing quick tech planning so you’ll have some money to work with in 2014. Proper Tech Planning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

We think that it is essential that the Treaty allow for direct provision (known in the tech field as B2C, or business to consumer) of accessible materials, especially for consumers in developing countries who lack access to local authorized entities with the capacity to meet their accessibility needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech is a tech social enterprise. For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. Our partners proofread the text, fixing mistakes and adding accessibility, and ship us the files back to add to our Bookshare library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. He taught me that 95% of the time I didn’t need help from him or another attorney. Just last month, he helped me solve a knotty trademark and web domain challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Technology is playing an ever larger role in increasing respect for human rights and delivering better services, and we have two rare opportunities to lead world-class tech-for-good programs. Our Benetech Labs is busy looking for the next tech social enterprises that could make similar global impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Then I’ll share the latest stories on the impact of our tech volunteerism and human rights tech efforts as well our new tech leadership. He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. To do so, we definitely need your help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What I liked most was the idea to create a body of knowledge that’s truly helpful to prospective and emerging social entrepreneurs. I hope this discussion helps other social enterprises examine and develop their own frameworks. Benetech’s New Project Framework helps us identify the next projects to work on. 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. Until now, we’ve operated with purely pro bono help in the form of two attorneys on our board. No, we’re not being sued (and we want to keep it that way). What’s next?

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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. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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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

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). and we needed more help. and we needed more help.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2022

No one wants to help a nonprofit reach their fundraising goal without a clear indication for why that’s important. will help solve the problem. BombBomb helps create personalized, stunning email videos that you can send to donors. Want help creating your own hybrid version of a popular in-person event?

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Free nonprofit resources offer your organization knowledge, strategic planning, and valuable data to help you accomplish your goals more efficiently.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

We’re here to help. On top of that, the online summit gives value to your attendees (who want the information you are providing) and helps your speakers or vendors. If you continue to get rejections, then you can rework your template to include more information to help them make a decision. Growing your email list. Live event.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

We’re here to help. On top of that, the online summit gives value to your attendees (who want the information you are providing) and helps your speakers or vendors. If you continue to get rejections, then you can rework your template to include more information to help them make a decision. Growing your email list. Live event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. Probably like many of you, I feel like a time traveler when I’m asked constantly about what machine learning and blockchain can do for the communities we want to help, and the social enterprises that serve them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

I lead my team to help build digital platforms, online brands, and launch books on the web. Millennials are tech savvy and want their work to be meaningful and make an impact. Her book encourages women to claim their power and respect, conquer internal barriers, and change the world by helping other women do the same.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Wonderful stuff.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. We were trying to analyze the Benetech secret sauce: how do we go about changing the world for the better as Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit tech company? The first was the ebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

The staff at Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I lead, recently came together to answer this question: “What values define our identity and drive our work?” Everything would be automated, everyone would get what they needed and our idea would help change the world! This post originally appeared on CSRwire Talkback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Wonderful stuff.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2016

It is a free, nine-page little eBook that describes the current research. How TechSoup Can Help Your Organization Stay Secure. TechSoup has partnered with leading security software companies, including Symantec, Bitdefender, and Comodo to offer donated and discounted security solutions to nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Trigby Perea, Senior Director of Tech Ops Engineering. – is an alert service that our IT help desk department uses. A TechSoup employee calls our tech support line, and if nobody picks it up, the app calls a succession of people until someone fields the trouble ticket. Fair warning. Trigby uses lots of apps.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

" Check out the 12 Trends, from Personalized Video Thanking to Ebooks to Digital Fundraising Staffing! We believe that with improved tech leadership, nonprofits like yours will provide more and better programs, inspire more communities, and involve more volunteers to share their time."

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

The Over the Edge organization can help organize this for you. Download eBook. Assign one mystery item per category (like tech, food, or experiences) and ask attendees to guess what it is. Lock-ins – A lock-in at a school or a library with your supporters and their families can be a fun idea. Auction Fundraising Ideas.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s not super easy to use, but it has lots of assistance like help files, a user manual and online resources such as tutorials , a wiki , documentation (in 11 languages), forums , FAQs , tips etc. It also creates digital documents like eBooks, reports, PDFs, and webpages. Scribus is the primary In-Design freeware clone.

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