Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Context matters Building technology solutions for the social sector isn’t purely an armchair exercise, based on the thrill of empowering people in principle. Case in point: our accessible online library, Bookshare. Let me explain further.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. Have an Android device?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Each tweet chat covered a different facet of digital storytelling and featured storytelling experts and nonprofit and library participants. The most famous example of the 6-word exercise is Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" – a tale of loss.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

We had a wide array of key people at the meeting, including the head of IT at the university, another blind professor, top librarians, the heads of NGOs serving the blind and the head of library services for the blind [check titles]. I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source screen readers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I Love Libraries Mission: "Friends of I Love Libraries was created to provide a means for library advocates to strengthen grassroots efforts in support of America’s libraries. We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'” People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

It was a very meaningful exercise for our entire team, resulting in what we call “ The Seven Benetech Truths.” And there are extended engagements that will add features to a mobile ebook reader app for the more than 250,000 print disabled users of Bookshare , the largest online library of accessible content in the world.

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