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. We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! Bookshare services are freely available to any school in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library continues to expand its international service providing accessible books and publications to members in more than 30 countries. After books are scanned and uploaded into the digital Bookshare library, they are still used in their printed form by readers around the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Description : Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. And when the community changes, there’s an opportunity for the institution and the service to change or not to change. Libraries can and should be doing the same. Date : February 28th-March 2nd, 2011.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Google Analytics :: analytics.google.com Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Social Media 1.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

These recognizable retailers, restaurants, and service providers are fan favorites for millions of Americans. Unfortunately for companies of all sizes, the five aforementioned brands are just the tip of the ADA and website accessibility iceberg. Everybody deserves to have that full and equal access to the world around them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities. The DIAGRAM Center team has also created an image data content model which will provide standards to define and enhance the efficacy and interoperability of accessible images as the project evolves.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the Imagination. During COVID-19, libraries across the country have had to re-imagine themselves so they can continue fueling imaginations and serving communities. Libraries have helped fill the void by providing hot spot access and in some cases laptops computers to students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2011

Collecting petitions Last week I stood outside of my local library collecting signatures to save libraries in Oakland. We're facing potential closures of 14 neighborhood libraries, and reduced services at the remaining four. Visiting my hometown library I probably wouldn't be who I am today without the library.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

That’s right: Today is the first day of Mozilla Service Week ! Learn more about Mozilla Service Week and get involved! What is Mozilla Service Week? Mozilla believes everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a good experience when they’re online. Get involved!

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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. Everyone who is not disabled globally can directly access Amazon.com and order books. Being silent on the big issue of circumvention would lead to a world where accessibility could be prohibited by contract.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our social enterprise partners not only deliver a high quality product or service at a fair price, they also are using the revenues to train disadvantaged people who otherwise wouldn't have these opportunities. The DDD student staff people work half days at DDD, proofing textbooks to make them accessible to students with print disabilities.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2023

One of the core community services offered by many libraries is public-access computer labs. As you'll know if your library has one, setting up and maintaining a computer lab can be expensive, with an overwhelming range of hardware and software options to choose from.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Services such as SocialWhoIs , Who Should I Follow , and Twellow can help you find users to follow by topics and keywords. Also be sure to add yourself to such services so others can find you. Location Based Services. If you have mobile outreach services, consider using Twitter to update and share location updates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Remarks Here are my remarks to the Leadership Conference on receiving the Migel Medal from Carl Augusto and Paul Schroeder of AFB: It’s a great honor to address the leadership of this field, and receive the Migel Medal in recognition of our shared commitment to service to the community of people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor and Statistics estimated earlier this year that about 3 million veterans, or 14 percent of the total veteran population, had a service-connected disability. SEChallenge a11y accessibility Bookshare crowdfunding CrowdRise Huffington Post print disabilities Reading Skoll Foundation veterans'

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2023

Libraries are the lifeblood of many communities. Their impact goes much further than lending out books, often offering safe shelter and access to resources, event space, Internet services, and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Works Covered.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

Candid’s ongoing commitment is to ensure all nonprofits and their communities have equitable access to Candid’s resources. Our mission is to get you what you need to do good—and that includes free access to the nonprofit resources, insights, and tools listed below. foundations have websites.

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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. We blew up the old approaches to converting inaccessible books into accessible equivalents. With support from the Bookshare community, we changed that reality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. My core point: Don’t put up bureaucratic barriers to access. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Bookshare and our other Access to Literacy initiatives, including the DIAGRAM Center and Route 66 Literacy, all made big strides this year through the significant dedication of the community that makes it all happen. How people access our books also got a whole lot more interesting in 2012. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

However, she soon encountered the frustrating “accessible book famine” because very few books available were available in Braille. This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. Data is now a core resource.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

—– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker! The keynote will focus on “Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation”. Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

“They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. Thank you for your support!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It can be helpful to lead a planning process within your own organization that examines your organizational assets and access so you can translate them into benefits. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

If your nonprofit has a blog hosted on Blogger and a digital library on Picassa , this could give you an edge on Google+. 6) As I was writing this post and before it was published, I was mysteriously allowed access to Google+! It’s also worth pointing at out that at this stage Google is calling them “Entity Profiles.&#.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

People rely on their neighborhood library to borrow books, magazines, and movies. Providence Community Library (PCL) is leading the way. PCL is a nonprofit network of nine neighborhood libraries that provide free, accessible library services and serve as vibrant neighborhood hubs. But borrowing the Internet?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The Kansas City Public Library. They have developed a way for anyone with a Kansas City public library card to use expensive professional applications like those from Adobe and Microsoft without owning them. They are building a free software lending library. How The Lending Library Will Work. The User Experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Creating the World’s Largest Collection of Accessible Arabic eBooks Access to knowledge is the critical first step on the path to economic, educational, and social development. In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Empowering Public Libraries with GyrusAim LMS: A New Era in Learning Management GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In the ever-evolving landscape of public libraries, staying relevant and effectively meeting community needs is paramount. The design is responsive, making it accessible across various devices—whether at home or in the library.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s a good rule of thumb to spend a little more on your hosting service. Uploads protection: WordPress files that allow your nonprofit’s team to upload files to the Media Library get an extra level of security to keep hackers out. Remember to back up files off-site either onto your computer or use a cloud-based service like Dropbox.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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DipJar

JUNE 24, 2021

Spring and summer are kitten season at Dallas Animal Services (DAS). The “friends” in this case is the Friends of Dallas Animal Services (FODAS), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides ready financial assistance to Dallas Animal Services. A Critical Mission for Animals and the Community. How FODAS Helps.

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