Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

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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APRIL 25, 2024

When embarking on a technology project, you should always start by outlining the key purpose behind the investment. The core purpose of your nonprofit should guide all of your activities and decisions, including your fundraising strategy and technology projects. 4 What is your budget for the technology project?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At Benetech, we always ask ourselves how our existing successful programs can reach more people who need our services and how we can apply technology in new ways to enrich and improve more lives. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading' The majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards. Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 3, 2021

But before you can move ahead in your search, evaluation, purchase, and implementation of new technology, you still need one thing: board approval. . Gaining board approval for a new technology investment requires you to make a strong business case. Others at your association know it. Next Steps.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

It’s also the release date of our eBook co-authored with Cuseum , “ The Ultimate Guide to Surviving & Thriving As A Cultural Organization ,” which you can pre-download here. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. In technical terms, this means that the next version of the DAISY format, version 4, will be the same as EPUB3, the main format used by commercial publishers of ebooks.

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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

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.

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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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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As technology evolves, there are new ways nonprofits like yours can take advantage of advancements to save time and raise more money. At the forefront of these new technologies is artificial intelligence (AI). AI provides easy ways to personalize your content to better appeal to your supporters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

At Benetech, we’re fortunate to have had long-time support from funders who have been willing to bet on us. One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world. government and states like Texas.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Blackbaud recently announced the end of support of a few applications hosted in their Citrix environments, including Crystal Reports (CT). While data and analytics are important year-round, the end of support for Crystal Reports for Blackbaud is rapidly approaching the December 15 th shut-off date. trillion to $15.4

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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. Information about devices that support image descriptions can be found at the DIAGRAM website.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Are you ready to support a changing mix of onsite and remote workers? This required adapting their technology and related processes for remote access, collaboration , and security. Now it’s time to face another challenge: As offices begin to re-open, associations must support a combination of onsite and remote workers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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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Nimble AMS

JUNE 10, 2021

This approach ensures your organization is keeping up with the latest technological advances without budget-busting fees and broken customizations. Download this guide to discover three keys to adopting this kind of future-focused technology for your association. How many versions of the software is your company currently supporting?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 24, 2022

Engaging Audiences using Mobile Friendly Technology. The session focused on best practices to help attendees understand how they can use technology to grow their donor base and increase engagement with their supporters. Make sure you check out our Auction Games Ebooks for more great ideas to incorporate into your next event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2020

With that in mind, Blackbaud has published an eBook entitled “Becoming a Resilient Nonprofit” that includes a round-up of sector resources and critical thinking on key strategies to ensure sustainability. Nonprofit missions grind to a halt without the automation and digital tools that technology brings to the table.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2019

When it comes to technology, you get what you pay for. Support can’t answer your unique WordPress questions. For larger organizations, consider investing in the Growth Plan which is about $103/mo (discount included) and it’ll better fit your high-traffic needs with 24/7 phone support. Also, a great collection of resources.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

That’s why the organisation is revolutionising its most critical systems and processes, from caseload management to supporter engagement and communications with the public. As an organisation that also relies heavily on public donations and legacies, which account for around 90% of its total income, supporter relationships are key.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. They also provide outreach and user support, which helps us keep our costs low as well as build local capacity to meet accessibility needs. Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. In addition, we acknowledged the critical support of Bernie Newcomb who helped fund our International Bookshare service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

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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Nimble AMS

MARCH 20, 2018

Another advantage is it empowers your AMS provider to focus on supporting only one version, which allows them to have more capacity to innovate. Verify your AMS provider uses Person Accounts, the supported Salesforce architecture purpose-built for the use cases professional and trade associations face every day. Correct Architecture.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Oranje Fonds offers both financial and non-financial support that includes training, awareness building, and volunteer mobilisation on a massive scale, assisted by one of the most sophisticated digital marketing platforms out there. More than simply providing support, these projects build relationships. A Critical Supporting Role.

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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. Low Technical Risk: We focus on applying existing technologies to bear on social needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, it's a dream that the commercial ebook vendors keep dashing. We have an action by Amazon that sets back years of work to make ebooks accessible. I think the publishing industry has a long and proud history of being willing to help people with disabilities, and authors are equally willing to support this as well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The context We’ve been supporting the World Blind Union and other groups in the pursuit of a Treaty for the Visually Impaired for the last five or six years. publishers) pushed for these voluntary efforts to weaken support for a Treaty. To paraphrase Mark Twain, I didn’t have time to write a short blog post, so I wrote a long one.

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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. With the advances in publishing and technology, it is now within reach to ensure equal access to books for all. Our motto is “If it’s born digital, it should be born accessible!”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). With the investment in systems thanks to Rockefeller’s support, expansion is relatively easy. and we needed more help. Her limitation is not lack of human capital. No problem!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2020

Then why are you asking that of your supporters? The result is relevant innovations and improvements that include people-focused and technology-focused solutions. Download this free eBook for more details about Peace Arch Healthcare Foundation’s journey mapping experience as well as case studies from other healthcare organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It supports international human rights treaty commitments, especially the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. · It supports the Sustainable Development Goals, which mention inclusiveness repeatedly, especially in the context of education. · It is politically popular. . · It is politically popular. . ·

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 10, 2009

We also announced a couple of assistive technology partnerships. The first release was about support for mobile phone use with software developer Code Factory of Spain. The second announcement was by Plextor of Japan, about their new ebook player that will play Bookshare books.

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