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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. It’s of course this last capability, flexibility, that is so powerful for people with disabilities.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. File Manager: Box.net. Hiring people.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you have step-by-step instructions for feedburner?). Pull not push content, changeability of information after initial transmission, ease of opting out for recipients, easier delivery of attached multimedia files.). Thanks Marshall for all the great advice, I'm going to make some changes after I post this interview.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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