Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools. There are a few issues with trying to follow the issue directly via the hashtag.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

49% of respondents cite cost-related issues as a barrier to adoption. 45% of respondents cite data security-related issues as a barrier. We need solutions that address security concerns in language organizations can recognize. 54% of respondents cite better data security as an advantage to cloud computing. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. I’ve lived in Egypt. So WhatsApp is available in multiple languages. So you can download the app in any language almost. The second step is talk to people in their language.

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