Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. They also offer low-cost computer repair to the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If you are facilitating the meeting you need figure out logistics like scheduling, materials, and effective use of technology for virtual meetings. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links. Meeting design is more than just agenda planning or identifying topics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. The Role of Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

That's why we’ve created a month-long global campaign built around the transformative power of storytelling, uniquely customized to the nonprofits, libraries, and social benefit organizations we serve. Have you heard of the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge ? Are You Up for the Challenge? To Help You Get Started.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This guest post was authored by the staff at OCLC WebJunction, the learning place for libraries. For almost 10 years, public libraries have used TechAtlas for Libraries as a tool to aid in technology planning and hardware and software inventory management. Here are instructions for joining the group.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. Karen Erickson, one of the nation's leading experts in literacy for people with disabilities, invented the original concept for Route 66 and collaborated closely with us on the instructional approach and content.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. But the reality is that technology is complicated, and while there is good that comes from access to it … there are also some negatives. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. 4) Disruption for Good: Philanthropy, Technology and Innovation : This course empowers students to use technology to solve social problems. 3) Giving 2.0: Philanthropy'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Libraries Building Bridges. Public libraries are also working diligently to close both the digital and the opportunity gap: from giving free classes on resume-building to providing free access to technology. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction. More Resources. Microsoft YouthSpark Hub.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

If you don’t have a technology or legal background, where do you start? Mozilla has instructions on how to encrypt your hard drive. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. The process can be intimidating! If you aren’t sure, work with your IT provider to review your encryption settings.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Forming Stronger Support for Computer Science.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

By instructing computers in a botnet to try and load and reload a website repeatedly, attackers can effectively knock a website offline temporarily. One way to help prevent XSS attacks is to disable Flash or JavaScript in your web browser — common website development technologies that attackers target. Sneaky, sneaky.

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Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2012

Michael Sauers, Technology Planning for Libraries. You can also take a look at Microsoft’s example slide effects with accompanying instructions to learn more about animation, or our recent blog post to read about SmartArt. Meredith Farkas, Avoiding the Idea Graveyard. Bobbi Newman, Why Transliteracy?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. September's here.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Attention 501(c)(3) nonprofits and libraries in U.S. You can now request technology product donations through TechSoup.org. Bytes of Learning - keyboarding instruction software. Tags: Acquiring Technology Grants for Technology Running Your Organization Tech Planning. Minor Outlying Islands, and U.S. Virgin Islands!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. We worked with Young Pham, ARC’s technology support person.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our Online Safety for Nonprofits and Libraries: Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get You? He is a programmer and web developer who helps other charities use technology more effectively. He authored our recently released 12 Tips to Being Safer Online Guide for nonprofits and libraries. Meet Our Security Experts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The centerpiece of the meeting on Guam was the first leadership meeting of the Pacific Consortium for Instructional Materials Accessibility Project, or Pacific CIMAP for short. Bookshare.org is a consultant to the Pacific CIMAP: our virtual library suits their geography as long as you can get access to the Internet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 27, 2008

The biggest issue I'm still working on is one I mentioned two years ago: getting access to the textbooks in the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC). There are more than 8,000 textbooks and other instructional materials in the repository, but very few of these have reached students.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Use new technology to work from home. Maintain an ongoing library of course materials. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. The COVID-19 pandemic has adjusted what your nonprofit’s staff needs to know to be effective. Solicit donations from a distance and over the phone.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

For more innovative and engaging ways to use technology for disaster relief, check out NetSquared's tips on Mobilizing Online Communities in the Face of Disaster and the value of crowdsourcing for nonprofits. The San Ramon Valley Fire Department has recently launched an initative to extend the reach of the app beyond San Ramon.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Reliatech CEO Ben Delaney and Technical Support Specialist Xiao Ma set up a Windows MultiPoint Server lab in their San Pablo Neighborhood Technology Center. Windows MultiPoint Server. Installation Problems.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Last night, I dropped into the lecture/presentation by Jeff Barr, Amazon Technology Evangelist, in the open-air auditorium on Information Island. There were about 50 people there. What is transferable?

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. See TechSoup's Mobile Technology solutions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Several recent studies have shown that technology can exacerbate bias and discrimination. Take, for instance, Unlocked Labs , a nonprofit that employs a team of incarcerated software developers who are building nonprofit, open-source technology to make high-quality education more accessible to incarcerated individuals.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. RSS feed: We write on web technology and social media tools for non-profits - charities, associations, clubs and other organizations. Ease of use - technologies that delight you and those that frustrate you. Remember Me?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

It might be an educational program that links visitors to each other via their affinities and skills rather than staff providing all of the instruction. I'd like to push beyond the most obvious and often-technologically mediated examples to find some clever, elegant, low-tech ways for visitors to enhance each others' experiences.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

This completes the ‘ask-thank-report’ cycle that keeps it simple for any organization to follow (shout out to shampoo bottle instructions everywhere…). Mr. Kristof told the story of a young man growing up in Alabama in the 1950’s who, embarrassed to read in public for fear of his image, had to steal books from the library and read in secret.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For nonprofits working with limited resources and staff, the prospect of adapting a new practice or technology can seem extra intimidating—even if it promises to make everyone’s job easier in the long run. Change is scary. Change is hard. Change is inevitable. That’s where change management comes in.

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