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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

If you are going to pour the amount of work necessary into creating a podcast, you will want to measure its success — but how? A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Ways to measure a podcast's success!

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6 Ways to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s WordPress Security

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Using a cheap hosting might seem like a great way to save money, but discount web hosting providers cut corners in their security measures to provide a low cost to you. Uploads protection: WordPress files that allow your nonprofit’s team to upload files to the Media Library get an extra level of security to keep hackers out.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. Worth Trust , an Indian social enterprise providing employment to people with disabilities, partnered with Bookshare to provide book-processing services and expand the library.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. The Bookshare breakthrough put our users in charge of the collection with a crowd-sourced library built by—and for—the people it serves. copyright law. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Don’t Get Lost in Translation: What Finance Needs from the Development System

sgEngage

Whether transactions are pre-classified by gift type or gift type is simply included in an output file so the finance team can classify the transactions on their own, it’s a crucial data element. books for the library or basketballs for the athletics program). Expense Matching.

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