sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I wouldn’t be surprised if TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2023 ends up being ChatGPT. The odd thing about living through a technological revolution is you think it’s just another Tuesday. These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. of ChatGPT last December.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You see, several months later, the federal Department of Education challenged us to compete against a well-respected national nonprofit 60 times our size in a bid to provide accessible educational materials for US students who are blind, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled. million contract to do just that.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Accordingly, U.S. federal law supports braille instruction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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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. I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves.

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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. Raman of Google Research, a long-time Bookshare member and advisor, was on hand to help us celebrate last night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The next time you set your digital device of choice to record your favorite show so you can watch it whenever you want, take a moment to be thankful that you’re protected from lawsuits from the entertainment industry. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. Luckily, better technology solutions are now there to support sustainable growth, and recent innovations make these systems even stronger.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Technology, and more! The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. Nonprofit Management. Feb 21 - 24.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

During this time of year, when the news media is dominated by stories of pepper spray attacks over video game consoles and hoards of shoppers stampeding stores at 4 a.m., You can learn more about the m and how they use technology to further their missions on TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map (LIM). million books per year.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling. What Does Assistive Technology Mean For You?

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Pacific time. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. He has led several technology ventures and completed successful mergers and acquisitions. Pacific time on the October 25th episode of Nonprofits Live. Find Kristy on Twitter at @kg.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Benetech's mission is to create technology that serves humanity and our longest-running commitment is to people with disabilities. It's great to see someone still using one of our products to access books for this length of time. shows up for the first time in the two year process and goes on the attack.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. Second, they focus on project based learning, where students use the computers to complete projects.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Bookshare's collection includes all the books that have appeared in the top 10 on The New York Times Best Sellers lists in fiction and nonfiction, hardback and paperback alike, from September 2005 through November 2006. Benetech melds the mission and heart of social activism with the powerful methods and tools of the technology community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

I'm working with an afterschool program/ctc lab to develop an instructional technology plan. In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec offers a generous Matching Gift Program — up to $1,000 per employee per year — and also rewards sustained volunteerism by making a contribution to organizations where employees volunteer their time through their Dollars for Doers Program. Symantec Supports Women in Technology. Employee Engagement and Giving.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. Full-time volunteer and board member Mercedes Pellet told us, "We could not have afforded the Desktop Office Suite for 50 employees — Office 365 is a real blessing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

s Degree in Instructional Technology. s Program in Instructional Technology at the University of North Florida. I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. s webmaster. This Blog is an experiment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate. Thoughtful and engaged.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

At the time we applied for our much more narrowly drawn trademarks, we and our attorneys thought it inconceivable that anyone could try to baldly own the name of our entire industry. The public interest is served even less when a business entity such as Salesforce attempts to privatize a term predominately used by the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Silent: Silent auctions take the anxiety out of participating for some by allowing them to write their bids down on their own time. Virtual events are much easier to run as they create a complete digital footprint in real-time. It’s also very easy for just about anyone to put on due to modern portable karaoke technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

This Thanksgiving week in the United States, it seems timely to be thankful for the great work being done by these outstanding social entrepreneurs. All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers. I’ve met the founder, Sébastien Marot , several times at the annual Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. This form of revenue is typically booked at the same time as the associated expenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). But, now the burden of proof has shifted to us: we’re presumed guilty, and we have to spent time and money defending ourselves.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up. Take the time to package the story as best you can: add photos, video, audio, pull quotes, infographics. Put the time and the resources in to bring the story to life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Benetech President's Update Winter 2011 I’m pleased to provide you you a detailed update on Benetech for the first time in two years. I’m spending more and more of my time trying to figure out what’s next for Benetech—how we can do much more. The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Founded by Susan Crawford, who now advises President Obama on science, technology, and innovation policy, OneWebDay is a global event that is celebrated every September 22 since 2006. For All. -- is all about digital inclusion, digital literacy, and working to close the many digital divides we face in our global society.

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