Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

This is the field where I found my life’s calling, applying technology to meet critical needs of society, where the market is likely to fail. And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. I especially want to acknowledge two people who helped make this award possible.

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Blue Fox

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Our mission is to disrupt the traditional accounting model through technology, innovation, and a radically client-focused approach that truly empowers nonprofits and social enterprises. We tip our hat to them! For more information call (321) 233-3311, email hello@yourbluefox.com, and visit www.YourBlueFox.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

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? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In 2011, we began collaborating with the Mada Center (Qatar Assistive Technology Center) to create accessible Arabic-language digital books.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Plan for the Future – We find that organizations with leading analytics programs not only focus on the initial deployment of technology but also continuously maintain and upgrade the models. You should have a plan to consistently test and upgrade the quality of your Tableau models. . appeared first on Cloud for Good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With technology, you can do incredible things, but with a galvanized community of supporters who work together toward a greater good, we can do anything. By partnering with all these stakeholders, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

It is nonprofit technology for use cases like constituent management, fundraising, marketing and communications, and program management. Assess Your Data & Map it to Your New Model. As you prepare for your migration, one of your first steps should be assessing your data and working to map it to your new model.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Reading a Bookshare-downloaded book on the BrailleNote portable device Launched in 2007 to replicate the proven Bookshare model internationally, our Bookshare International library has already grown to serve members in more than 40 countries , many of whom are in the developing world.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper is all about not reinventing the technology wheel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. exception model works well here. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. copyright law.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. 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. copyright law.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2015

Technology. For-profit companies are beginning to capitalize on the idea that personal connection is paramount, but nonprofits have long held that model at the heart of everything they do. Download the free eBook to check out their insights to see where you are and where you have room to grow. Innovation. The future.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. This early childhood program initially serves 400 preschoolers and their families, providing them with up to 40,000 eBooks and learning apps. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

2016 NGO Online Technology Report. Based upon the survey results of 2,780 NGOs worldwide, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. The State of Nonprofit Cloud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. Increase your mission-focus with 501 Technology. Aqubanc in booth 58.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. Visit the 501 Technology booth and enter to win an app from our MoblityCMS platform for your non-profit organization. Increase your mission-focus with 501 Technology. Aqubanc in booth 58.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But the closer you can get to that model, the better. If you were going to employ the same technology on your own website it would cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the same quality technology, the same robustness, the same ability to deal with traffic. It’s not free, but it’s absolutely worth it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Using the 18-page ebook, youll learn : •what a strategic messaging plan should encompass (and what it shouldn’t). Thanks David, for another useful ebook! •how to identify the right tone and content. •what media you can use to convey it. •what media you can use to convey it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. The emergence of new technology alone has led to increases in donor expectations on several fronts—from mission transparency and program reporting to organization access and donor responsiveness. By Gilman Sullivan.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I have hundreds of people who use these models that I’m showing you today to get better results. One is this ebook. A lot of the concepts that I’m sharing with you today are in this ebook. I love this model because, for me, it explains a lot why when you try to implement change it doesn’t exactly stick.

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