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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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How to Create a DEI Style Guide for your Nonprofit

Whole Whale

This document ensures that everyone in an organization is on the same page when it comes to using language in a way that is respectful and accurate. The use of inclusive language can help reduce the incidence of bias and prejudice in the workplace. It should avoid jargon and overly technical language. What is a style guide?

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Our WIPO Statement on the Treaty for Access for People with Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare now has hundreds of titles in Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, and we recently announced a partnership with the government of Qatar to develop an Arabic language service. Bookshare has successfully piloted an international library for the blind, but we’ve barely begun to remedy the global book famine.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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Grantseeking Basics: Researching Suitable Funders Part Three – Corporate Funding

Tech Soup

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. Information Today. Search Tips.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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