Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. Thanks to e-book technology, Bookshare today serves over 300,000 students with a collection of more than 300,000 accessible books – the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. Carol Wanjiku is the CEO of Daproim. We go way back with her firm.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Making a profit. Remind them that you have created an asset library, so sharing requires only a few clicks. You can also post ebooks and use content marketing to educate interested registrants. You might be surprised at how much interest there is around your event! Growing your email list. These are easy wins.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Competing nonprofits, competing for-profits and sort of competing donors will need to come together, build trust, and create open solutions. He took on leading the EPUB commercial ebook standard body – and now there’s no need for a separate standard for people with disabilities. My second example is just a year old.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

Donors and prospective donors are accessing non-profit websites at increasing rates each year. I don’t know about you, but as a kid I loved storytelling time at the local library and at school. Let’s bring this concept into the non-profit world. Or profile a donor about why they give to the cause.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Making a profit. Remind them that you have created an asset library, so sharing requires only a few clicks. You can also post ebooks and use content marketing to educate interested registrants. You might be surprised at how much interest there is around your event! Growing your email list. These are easy wins.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

Another interesting book we are representing is Endless Encores: Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. Burke : I am a big fan of ebooks, although format of books is less interesting to me. He reveals that the foundation of living your best life is to put your own health first. Why are books in print still relevant?

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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. The primary goal in the Valley is massive change, because when you’re a for-profit that magnitude usually yields massive profits. The first was the ebook.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

And there are extended engagements that will add features to a mobile ebook reader app for the more than 250,000 print disabled users of Bookshare , the largest online library of accessible content in the world.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Download eBook. Lock-ins – A lock-in at a school or a library with your supporters and their families can be a fun idea. You can share the profits and your supporters will be excited to take the plants home. You can even charge a ticket for supporters to enter, with each of the farmers making their own profit as well.

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