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Social DRM: It’s About Equal Access for All

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Guest Beneblog by Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP, Engineering One of the highlights of my meeting circuit each year is the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

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While our activities often creates jobs beyond the core high technology jobs around software development and user support, we don't see it as our core competency. Seeing the words being spoken aloud on a device really helped them visualize how blind and dyslexic students use the accessible text ebooks that they create.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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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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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. Today, Bookshare serves over 330,000 American students with a rapidly growing collection of hundreds of thousands of accessible ebooks. government and states like Texas.

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April Member Round-Up: Digital strategy from street outreach, top nonprofit blogs, and how to communicate when you don't agree

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Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Direct service can teach you a lot about digital strategy. Save the Date!

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