Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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Open Source Literacy eBook Empowerment 184

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. You can take an ebook, push a button and make it Braille. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers.

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eBook United States Literacy Library 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Betsy Beaumon, Benetech VP and General Manager of Bookshare During the event, our Bookshare staff offered demos of our Bookshare library and our Go Read accessible ebook reader for Android. They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program.

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Celebrate Google Literacy Library 145

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. The Health Trust leverages the Bay Area’s network of urban farmers. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. 500,000 Grant Winners.

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San Francisco Award Google Challenge 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print. Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech.

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eBook Copyright China Law 107

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APRIL 26, 2021

A dedicated peer-to-peer virtual fundraiser can raise a lot of money and thrives on your supporters’ personal networks. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. Download eBook. This is because those who are registering are actually signing up to fundraise on behalf of your organization.

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Virtual Software Fundraising Registration 52