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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Understanding the Importance of XML Sitemaps for Website SEO

Byte Technology

In layman’s terms it’s an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file designed to store and transport data that lists the URLs (Universal Resource Locators) for a particular site and allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL, such as when it was last updated, how often in changes and its relationship to other URLs within the site.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Even a quick scan of the form fields above will reveal that much of this information is available from any public repository of 990 forms filed annually by US nonprofits. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. Total Number of Paid Staff. Total Number of Staff Hours. Research funding. and Catherine T.

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Introducing Aptana

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Syntax checking in all three languages. An outliner that shows you the structure of your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript file, and lets you jump right to an element or function. With an integrated debugger, Aptana will leave pure script debugging tools like SplineTech in the dust. Take a look at their little demo video.

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SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success

Nonprofits Source

Think of SEO as the language used by search engines to communicate with your website. To rank for image packs you may also want to consider adding your keyword to the image file name. How to use a Robots.txt file to lift search rankings. Another easy win for off page SEO is to create a Robots.txt file.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. He also points us to books, languages, and application frameworks - like this survey of five new "rails"-like application frameworks for php.

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