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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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Literacy for a billion: PlanetRead

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the most exciting literacy social enterprises that I've run into is PlanetRead. Planet Read added subtitles to Bollywood music videos. Hundreds of millions of people now see these videos, eager to learn the words of their favorite videos and becoming literate along the way.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. But what about everybody else?

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. One of the reflections.

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Is it time for a Social Reporter?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As the Internet changed dramatically with the launch of the Web, the content of my work did too -- although the themes and concepts remained the same. That's partly about personality, and partly about offering a choice of audio, video, text and so on. And, now mid-2000 this has changed again.

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