Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

It is our hope that Benetech’s Bookshare library, the authorized entity which we believe has the world’s largest accessible online collection with its 198,000 titles, becomes a major source of books for all people who are blind or otherwise print disabled. For years, we have been working to end the worldwide book famine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. Have your interns take the Whole Whale Be Your Own Social Media Guru course before getting started. Make sure to create a dev copy and avoid letting interns edit live databases. Manage and Organize Photo Library. Build a Photo Library.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

The donation will cover installation and maintenance of necessary equipment, which will build upon existing free Wi-Fi areas, like City Hall and the San Francisco International Airport. These initiatives are exciting opportunities for libraries and nonprofits to get recognition and support for the work they're already doing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

The tweet chat is designed to spark an international conversation, spanning multiple time zones. The conversation will focus on the power of data and how it can be used to achieve the objectives of nonprofits, libraries, and other social benefit organizations. Greenwich Mean time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

International Game Technology. The Lisa Libraries. International Game Technology. Burkle Foundation makes grants to programs that engage children in learning, advance scientific research, strengthen international understanding, foster worker’s rights, empower underserved communities, and nurture the arts and architecture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2013

Of course libraries are all about education in its various forms. It also integrates well with after-school programs and library open-access. International NGOs and Libraries. It often surprises people when I mention that education accounts for fully one-fifth of nonprofit activity , second only to human services.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

" Apps can be very helpful tools: they can help engage and inform constituents, tell your organization's story, and improve your internal workflows. However, many nonprofits and libraries aren't using apps, for various reasons. Some nonprofits and libraries are even creating their own apps. What Is an App?

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Many association execs expressed the belief that declining trust is affecting their industry, including execs from higher education, medicine, public health, foreign affairs, media, real estate, government, technology, science, veterinary medicine, and libraries.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit or library in California, your organization might be eligible to reduce your. Qualified organizations include California schools, community colleges, libraries, government and district-owned and operated hospitals and health clinics, and community-based organizations. telecom expenses by half.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. And, the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. But, some companies want to empty the library shelves and insist that only books that can’t be purchased are allowed to be stocked in such libraries. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! After all, Benetech’s Bookshare initiative is the largest online library serving people with print disabilities in the world. copyright exception.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

You may consider making this information available through a dedicated resource library that volunteers can access from anywhere and any device. Overlooking your internal processes. Internal processes, however, often suffer as a result which ironically can help you improve your member experience and external process.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 10, 2023

This leads to a rather large podcast graveyard in the iTunes library making it very hard to find current podcasts. While it is easy to create a podcast, the difficulty comes with the ongoing work needed to maintain a podcast month after month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The international legal landscape for people with these disabilities dramatically changed on June 28, 2013, when the World Intellectual Property Organization adopted the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. delegation signing the treaty.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

International Committee of the Red Cross 2015. International Committee of the Red Cross 2005. New York Public Library 2015. New York Public Library 2005. Hermitage Museum 2005. web.archive.org/www.hermitagemuseum.org. Human Rights Watch 2015. Human Rights Watch 2005. web.archive.org/www.hrw.org. audubon.org. Oceana 2015.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

They will share our survey findings and the primary motivations and barriers that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs have for moving their IT to the cloud. This event is geared towards nonprofits and libraries that want to take advantage of what’s happening in the field of cloud computing. Dawn Krause.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. in addition to the text?only

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Make data collection even simpler with our library of common assessments, intervention record templates, and pre-configured forms tailored to common compliance standards. Bonterra’s office sits behind a ForcePointTM firewall which extensively controls, tracks, and reports access to our internal infrastructure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. Blog Action Day is today, October 15, and the international community of bloggers is blogging about this year’s theme, The Power of We. copyright law.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2018

I looked in Android/data on my SD card and internal storage but found no Apex backups in either location. I found that although Apex said it was backing up to the SD card, it actually put the backup in internal storage (Android/data/apexlauncher). When I tried to restore them Apex said it had no backups to restore from.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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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. In addition, we acknowledged the critical support of Bernie Newcomb who helped fund our International Bookshare service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Bookshare has successfully piloted an international library for the blind, but we’ve barely begun to remedy the global book famine. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

organizations that qualify as nonprofits are exempt from federal tax liability under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 501(c). Andrew Carnegie is one of America’s most famous philanthropists, noted for the large scale of his charitable contributions, which included building more than 2,500 libraries worldwide. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The first issue is that the treaty would not permit direct access by consumers to international authorized entities. Since many of our organizations operate as libraries, we note that commercial availability of a book rarely impacts the availability of that book on the shelves of a library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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