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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. 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. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

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They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. In addition, we acknowledged the critical support of Bernie Newcomb who helped fund our International Bookshare service. copyright law.

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Geek Heresy

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For example, I extracted many insights about the international development field reading books like Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts or Maren’s Road to Hell. As a geek who is trying to apply tech for good, it is instructive to hear the critiques. It’s on the last one that Toyama makes his biggest error.

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IP Protection for Software: Cake and Amish Barn Raising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session offered some great primers of the various technical terms and copyright laws as well as some metaphors for explaining free versus proprietary software. Some basic terms were defined: Source code: Source is a recipe, a set of instructions to get at something tasty. The development model is one person. The license: ???I???m

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Salesforce Last Mile Training Director in the USA or Canada

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Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Knowledge of instructional design best practices such as evidence based online delivery models (e.g., Fluency in current Salesforce training programs (e.g., Trailhead, Partner University) .

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When To Coach And When To Counsel

Eric Jacobsen Blog

As a coach , a manager: identifies an employees need for instruction and direction and this need is usually directly related to his or her performance or career goals. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?

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Let Employees Learn From Their Mistakes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Finally, you may discover that the mistake happened because policies, procedures or your assignment instructions were confusing or unclear. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?