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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources

Tech Soup

She also said that they learn about new technology mostly by word of mouth throughout their church network. Church Technology Listservs. particularly interesting like her piece 4 Technology Options that Might Kill the Church Bulletin. Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks. ChurchTechToday.

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How One Library Is “Loaning out the Internet” Using Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

Most recently, PCL has been a trailblazer in providing mobile technology to their patrons, redefining what library services means. “With shrinking municipal budgets and nonstop technological advancement, public libraries need to be customer-driven and ensure their programs keep pace with patrons’ evolving needs.

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Get Results When You Put Yourself in Your Donors’ Shoes

Connection Cafe

When you see increasing donor attrition rates or decreasing event participants, try walking in their shoes. The result is relevant innovations and improvements that include people-focused and technology-focused solutions. For example, a fall in renewal rates or average gift size. Of course not. Real-World Results.

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A Modest Complaint to Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Thanks to incredible work on the part of socially responsible publishers, our volunteers and the Bookshare team, we've been adding books at at incredible rate: more than 10,000 books in the last month. They also operate Web Braille, an online Braille ebook service with roughly ten thousand titles.

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Bookshare.org milestones

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're committed to increasing our rate of title growth by a factor of four or five while improving quality. We'll be working for Guam to help set up a system for assistive technology and media for disabled students with nine Pacific island entities. Big opportunity to change the world with technology! Department of Education).

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

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.