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. Groups such as high school or university clubs are welcome to participate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

As the prototypical technology social enterprise, Benetech became one of the first organizations using technology to solve social problems rather than seeking to make maximum financial returns. What if we could scan once, proofread the resulting scan, and share that ebook with tens of thousands of eager readers?

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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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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research.

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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

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). They recruited their staff from Nairobi slums as well as students from poor rural backgrounds who had made it to Nairobi universities. and we needed more help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Universal City Studios, Inc., 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges. The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. With this universal design approach , e-books that meet the needs of students with disabilities simply work better for everyone.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2010

Something called Zen Computer that gives you a meditation for every function key on the keyboard (the @ reminds you to consider your position in the universe!)).) They also operate Web Braille, an online Braille ebook service with roughly ten thousand titles. An anthology of rejection letters. Seriously, you guys rock.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Thanks again!

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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. If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 18, 2007

We spent time talking with OSEP and our new partners from the University of Guam. 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! That's an issue I'm quite passionate about.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. The ability of that Indian blind student shouldn’t depend on whether she can get her university or a local blindness charity to do it for her. That’s so 20th Century (or 19th?)!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique challenge for the higher ed admissions office: even a slight drop in enrollment can be a significant change to many aspects including budget for the university. Download the free eBook: “ A Unique Approach to Student Prospecting: 5 Ways to Build Your Brand as a Trusted Advisor” 3.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Digital transformation is, to put it simply, rethinking how our organizations operate through the use of digital technology. Throughout our sector, each and every nonprofit is in a different place when it comes to using digital technologies and foundational data. Question: How will digital transformation help you to diversify revenue?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

For more than 20 years I’ve worked to harness the power of technology to do social good. So for me, it was incredibly cool to be introduced to a new piece of technology that has a clever and (as far as I know) new approach to making information accessible to people with vision impairments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you are looking for more recommendations, check out Book Authority’s list of 52 Best Nonprofit eBooks of All Time ( The Happy Healthy Nonprofit is #9). The thesis of the book is that as technology becomes more pervasive in our work and personal lives, interpersonal skills become more essential.

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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. My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that. You can find it here.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

One is this ebook. A lot of the concepts that I’m sharing with you today are in this ebook. I was panicking and, “Technology is not my thing.” The universe is limitless. I love the universe just drops into my Zoom. All I have to do is be in service to the universe and it’ll come back to me.

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