Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values. Higher temperature values (e.g.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good. Spanish publishing is one of the hottest digital battlegrounds.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world. And once the United States Senate ratifies the treaty, it will be possible for libraries like Bookshare to get more content for Americans from sources outside of the United States and in more languages.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. Start building your video-adjacent content library now. Build content on very long-tail keywords and natural language questions. Interacting via voice is conditioning us to speak more naturally to get what we need.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Automate generation of publications based on data using LaTeX and Sweave. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. Start building your video-adjacent content library now. Build content on very long-tail keywords and natural language questions. Interacting via voice is conditioning us to speak more naturally to get what we need.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Humans are creative, while AI is generative. Humans can invent new ideas and solutions based on emotions, relationships, and a host of other circumstances related to consciousness, while AI systems can only generate new outputs based on existing data. This seems to be another slightly gray area.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. There are many sites that offer free, royalty-free music for videos, in all sorts of genres, that generate all sorts of moods. Free Music Archive: [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

results were focused on keys generated by very specific models of electronic devices, especially routers and firewalls. There are two parts of serious, computer-based random number generation: a "seed," or starting point, and a pseudo-random number generator. If this can be done, neither key is secure, and that's very bad news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. It reminded of the Postmodernism Thesis Generator could spit out a thesis for you in minutes. The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 1, 2021

Investing in an all-in one, fully connected system is your best bet to ensure you have all of the tools you need and that they all speak the same language. Effective grant management software comes with a few key features: document library, calendar tools, and reporting capabilities. Best Practices.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association. Corporations and Grantmaking.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 15, 2006

BRAC is run as a social enterprise, and generates over 75% of its own budget through earned income. One of the most exciting parts I heard about with my interests was BRAC's expanding network of libraries around the country: more than 1,000 with 300 of them with PCs. However, the PCs are not currently connected to the Internet.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. It made us think about ways we could bring good dependable low-cost computers to nonprofits and libraries. households in a year. They’re a busy place.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

They had the committee decision-making structures from universities and the collections-authority systems of libraries. Dashboards and ROI are as much part of our workplace language as community engagement and light-sensitivity. But they had a flavor all their own, spiced up with curatorial authority and donor privilege.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To do this, sit down with your leadership team and program folks to generate a list of needs for the upcoming year. This group of 400+ organizations – libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit resource centers – offer you a way to access it from their location. Create a list of needs.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. The staff have to be very flexible; they talk with the kids in adult language, but always explain as needed.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

It was refreshing to attend a web communications conference where the moderator of the first panel discussion wasn't someone like me: a member of generation X or Y with an English degree who can passionately argue on behalf of his favorite Twitter client, but can't program a lick. 15 years ago, specialized research required travel.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. This is about as certain a prediction as you'll find in this post. Privacy and Security.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Check out Bloomerang’s resource library for different guides and templates. Take advantage of Qgiv’s resource library for free fundraising eBooks and templates.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Blank slate generative AIs (chatbots that don’t have context on your organization/data) are like over-confident interns. Enhancing Clarity Pinpoint confusing phrases, vague language, and complex sentences in the previous reply. Increasing Approachability Pinpoint any overly academic language, jargon, or complex vocabulary.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

TechSoup is participating by amplifying what other agencies, collaborators, and libraries in our network are doing to raise awareness on this important issue. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Here are just a few examples of the extraordinary work these organizations are doing this month and every month. For DVAM, STAND!

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Event offered an interesting example of a great tweet in that the campaign kicked off with a question posed on Twitter that gave followers an opportunity to share information and resources, opening up an engaging conversation on the topic of using video for nonprofits and libraries.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While you do need some time to generate buzz, it’s best to design giving day marketing to complement, not supplant your existing fundraising efforts. If your goal is larger than what your team can process quickly, have a plan for promotional and stewardship language that is not dependent on announcing totals.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Your purpose in raising money through the mail is two-fold: generate dollars for immediate needs and build relationships with individual donors for long-term success. Avoid jargon, acronyms, and insider language. Ask someone outside your organization to review the letter to spot jargon or insider language.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2006

Borland Software Corporation announced a couple days ago that it is spinning off its programming languages division into a separate company and seeking a buyer for it. These languages include Delphi, C++ Builder, and Jbuilder, the most widely used cross-platform Java development environment. And a generation of pc applications.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

A big pro of using the same tool is having shared language. A check-in generator is an easy way to change up questions from meeting to meeting. If you’d like to try this, you can borrow free eBooks and audiobooks from Candid’s extensive online library.) These offer insight into strengths, preferences, and approaches to work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

But, we’re not willing to lose the copyright exemption and let down the next two or three generations of print disabled people during the transition to equal access nirvana! We need domestic copyright exemptions so that local communities can scan the books they need in their languages. It’s the right long-term solution.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

From providing accessible content for people with disabilities, to creating fully usable functionality, to support for multiple languages, we wanted to learn about the benefits people are creating using web and mobile technology. But in dealing with software issues and the visually impaired, it can be a challenge. Johnson via Linkedin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

What does the next generation of learning environments look like? What do libraries look like in the future? Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? New learning environment puts games at the center. Grants are about taking it scale.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" literally speak a different language from the rest of us. Can it generate revenue? I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

There are two huge barriers for reaching rural Hispanic communities: language and Internet access. Many community members are first generation and either speak only Spanish or have very little English proficiency. Spanish language media. Let's Involve Libraries. Overcoming Barriers. Churches and community centers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2015

At the core level, the Box CSR program allows organizations to become more efficient and effective in the areas of resource generation, program execution, and administration. In Myanmar, Tableau has worked in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation, which supports thousands of libraries around the country.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. In the end, this generated a substandard product for the client, and disappointment for the teens.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These include: A built-in library of eLearning assets. A content library of ready-to-use templates. Online course hosting with the ability to generate private links for sharing. With this eLearning authoring tool, you access: A library of interactive eLearning templates to create games, hotspots, and more.

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