Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

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. law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people who are blind or otherwise disabled when it comes to reading print. copyright law. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law. Employ "Social Digital Rights Management" technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Bookshare actively cooperates with the Library of Congress in the provision of Bookshare’s services to people with disabilities, through its National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This post originally appeared on TechSoup for Libraries. Those of us working in the nonprofit and library sectors understand the profound effect of broadband and affordable access to underserved populations. Some would argue that promoting broadband should not be something with which the government should be heavily involved.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), It was founded in 2001 by Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig. We think this kind of information sharing is the essence of nonprofits and libraries' collaborative spirit. thanks to our Creative Commons license.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

A lot depends on your technological resources. In late 2016, note-taking service Evernote caught some flack for a change in its privacy policy that would have allowed employees to be able to access customers' data stored on Evernote's servers. Technology moves quickly, and so does cloud security. But should you?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. With the development of an official “nonprofit sector” came the development of more rules, regulations and policies. From the late 1800s up until 1920, the U.S. entered the Progressive Era. Online giving generated $2.1

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. We did some exploration of the likely impacts on the market for audio books: that seems to be one of the major policy concerns about the text-to-speech issue. The Chafee Amendment The U.S.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! The DOJ and Byte Technology recommend WCAG 2.1 Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act covers federal programs or agencies and their use of electronic and information technology.

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

On February 10th 2009 at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in New York City, social media guru Jeff Pulver is producing SocComm - The Social Communications Summit. 10:00 - 10:20 - (E) Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV. 11:40 - 12:10 - “Will Law and Policy Kill the Social Communications Revolution Before It Starts?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . As Robert Scoble pointed out, "It's not so much about technology but people."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The good news is that major changes in technology are reforming education. Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. The common link among our projects is information technology, which can be applied to just about every aspect of the social sector. Yet, nonprofits frequently lag behind the for-profit world in applying technology to their work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2011

We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. Background Information Benetech is Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit technology company. That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Human trafficking organizations advocate for stronger anti-trafficking laws, provide services and support for victims of trafficking crimes, and develop long-term strategies to end human trafficking. Problem: In years past, Hagar relied on an extensive library of Excel files to document contact with each client that would come seeking help.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

We send out action alerts, blog passionately, share petitions on Facebook and upload videos highlighting the stakes involved in our various policy fights, all intended to spark people to take action. From Facebook to the phones in all of our hands, technology lets a small, committed group of people punch far above their weight.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. One of the most powerful industries on the planet, which already has loads of treaties and laws protecting its interests, needs to find balance against some of the most economically and information disadvantaged people on the planet? under a Treaty.

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Global Giving

MAY 11, 2018

This definition is broader than past privacy laws, and it may impact data that previously was not subject to regulations. You need to have a lawful basis for processing information. In order to process individual data under GDPR, your organization must have a lawful basis to do so. Read our privacy policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. I need to find a space like this in Silicon Valley for 2011.

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