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The Gift of Reading, a Circle of Life

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.

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Nonprofit Resource Roundup (February 2021)

Blue Fox

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How Digitised Processes Support Person-Centred Care

Saleforce Nonprofit

With this firmly in mind, the organisation digitised service users’ care records for the first time, using Salesforce’s cloud-based customer engagement solution Service Cloud. Transforming the Future Through Technology. Autism Plus is now assessing where else technology can be leveraged to enhance its service offering.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 187: Strategies for Avoiding Tech Burnout

Connection Cafe

We already relied on technology to communicate before the pandemic, but over the past year we’ve become even more dependent on video and digital communications to live and work. Today’s episode features mindfulness expert Meico Marquette Whitlock in an excerpt from the sgENGAGE Rethinking Change webinar series. The Mindful Techie.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. 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? While it’s not a panacea, technology has been the engine of so many improvements in society.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As the prototypical technology social enterprise, Benetech became one of the first organizations using technology to solve social problems rather than seeking to make maximum financial returns. What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers?

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