Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

We believe that this means that circumvention needs to be addressed in the Treaty to ensure that access does not become a dead letter in an increasingly digital world, where people with disabilities get locked out of ebook content by contractual and technical means.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Disability advocates should, at minimum, press for a seat at the ACTA table.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 19, 2009

Our team has been explaining how to assist a disabled senior who doesn't have a PC, by empowering a PC-using child to download the book and load it onto a device like a Victor Stream (an ebook player that has a voice synthesizer that speaks our books).

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 15, 2009

The Authors Guild are pressing the cause of authors' rights to make more money (in theory). My take: Authors Guild: we want to insist that publishers turn off text-to-speech so our authors can make more money over how much they make from the standard text ebook. This is a case of dueling moral high grounds.

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Baltimore Authoring eBook Articulate 124

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. Is it any wonder that proper technology planning is something we have a hard time getting to? Conducting a technology assessment and inventory of current software and hardware assets. How do you currently use technology?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. And, we're standing by to provide the technology infrastructure that makes this community action possible.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

From eBooks to webinars, there’s a heaping handful of other ways to raise money online. If your email layout looks like it needs more than a little work, though, it’ll hit the trash faster than you can press send. You can still introduce visitors to your nonprofit in a creative way, even though you aren’t face-to-face.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Tip: to reach local media, check out our post on how to Write a Press Release for Your Nonprofit. They launched a crowdfunding campaign along with press releases about their new non-profit. Within weeks of putting out the press release, they got calls to be featured on local radio and were asked for written interviews.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Chapter 1: Nonprofit Technology and Fundraising. Also covered: News Articles and Press Releases, Blogs, Images and Infographics, Videos, Online Petitions, Online Contests, Online Stores, Ebooks and Digital Reports, Event Invitations, Webinars, and Smartphone and Tablet Apps. Silent Generation (Born 1925-1945, aged 69-older).

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Donor Data is a Top Priority Track Performance Using KPIs Prioritize Donor Stewardship Use Technology to Automate Processes Set S.M.A.R.T. Use Technology to Automate Processes Take advantage of the tools and technology that you have—especially those that are built specifically to handle fundraising for nonprofits.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Your content can come in many forms, such as blog posts, email campaigns, press releases, YouTube videos, downloadable eBooks, podcasts, etc. Include your local media outlets (press, radio, television, blogs, etc.) Optimize Your Technology. Try to re-appropriate as much content as possible over multiple channels.

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North Carolina Social Media Newsletter Press 63

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

However, for those nonprofits that have purchased the ebook version of Mobile for Good it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality and content. Integrate mobile and social media into news articles and press releases. ? Mobile and Social Fundraising Strategic Plan. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

For those who have purchased the ebook of Mobile for Good , it is impossible to use the checklist since ebooks are static in their functionality. Interactive, web-based ebooks will transform publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the checklist below in Word document. .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

It’s not every day that a science center releases an ebook about wrongful conviction in rape and murder cases. This interview is not really about an ebook. Finally we engaged Theo Grey, one of the first developers for the iPad who had started a British company called Touch Press. How did this project come about? If so, whom?

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