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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. That was the silver lining.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Five steps to becoming an innovative association and driving member value

Nimble AMS

Currently, 36% of surveyed members and 50% of surveyed association professionals believe that the fact their association isn’t keeping up with the pace of technology is the main reason their organization is falling behind. How would adopting innovative technology help your association thrive? Be a trailblazer. Increase productivity.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse. We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. and Canada about their technology use.

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The Rise Of The Coding Bootcamp

TechImpact

A common criticism of higher learning institutions in the United States is that they do not properly prepare students for their “real world careers.” Students are spending upwards of 4 years preparing for these mysterious, other-wordly jobs, only to finally arrive and be told they’re not properly trained.

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Force Multiplier Podcast Episode 4: Housing Stability

Saleforce Nonprofit

Many of them live in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, which ranks among the most expensive cities in the United States, with average downtown home prices exceeding $1 million. California State University, East Bay Supports Students Through the Pandemic. Our emergency assistance requests went up 1,600%,” Ingram said.

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Building Online Portals for Full-Text Searches of Historical Archives

Forum One

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. There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world.

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