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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. a11y accessibility blind blindness Bookshare DAISY ebooks education giving India Lavelle Fund for the Blind philanthropy print disabilities' government and states like Texas.

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Great reads from around the web on February 15th

Amy Sample Ward

" Get the free ebook "The State of Event Marketing" at: [link]. " The Age of Mobile Email Has Arrived. NTEN – "What if you found out that one-quarter of your subscribers were reading your emails on their mobile phones? Are You Ready? There’s a good chance they already are.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

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Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

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Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. We’re making securing new funding for Bookshare’s international expansion a top priority! These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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One major step to improving security of sensitive information was the recent development and release of Mobile Martus. Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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App Recommendations from the TechSoup Staff

Tech Soup

I have gobs of apps on my phone, but I doubt that I actually use more than 10 of them on a daily basis. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. Glenn Hirsch, Manager of Internal Communications and Administration. I have a Nokia Windows 8 phone. mobile phone cell phones apps tablets'

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

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Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. a11y accessibility Bookshare disabilities ebooks education equality Reading students tech4good UNICEF' The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education.

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