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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. Looking ahead, our goals are to increase collaboration with partners in Arabic-speaking countries so as to reach a larger base of users who would benefit from Bookshare and to grow our library of Arabic titles.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. 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.

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Navigating Your Upgrade from Drupal 7

Forum One

As Drupal 7 aims to sunset in 2023, the latest version of Drupal 9 ships with new features including a built-in media library and content workflows, as well as a new layout builder. A nifty feature the Migrate suite provides is the ability to ‘dry run’ the upgrade command. This method allows you to take a hybrid approach to your upgrade.

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Navigating Your Upgrade from Drupal 7

Forum One

As Drupal 7 aims to sunset in 2022, the latest versions of Drupal 8 and 9 ship with new features including a built-in media library and content workflows, as well as a new layout builder. A nifty feature the Migrate suite provides is the ability to ‘dry run’ the upgrade command.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. If you want more control over the content before it's published, you'll need to record and edit the audio file before it's uploaded.

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Introducing Aptana

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Aptana provides code-assist for html, CSS ,and JavaScript, including your own JavaScript functions and libraries. An outliner that shows you the structure of your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript file, and lets you jump right to an element or function. Syntax checking in all three languages. Take a look at their little demo video.

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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Since XML puts the X in AJAX, and the J is for Javascript, the most obvious approach is getting the data as a textbook XML data file and using Javascript to display the data elements wherever you wish. Charles Toepfer has posted a nice cross-browser library that implements this straightforward approach to xpath for the Mozilla browsers.

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