Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Our collection has grown from 70,000 books to almost 110,000 books in the U.S. This rapid increase in our collection size has been due to extensive support from publishers: the majority of new books added to Bookshare last year and this year have been voluntarily provided to us by 130 publisher partners in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If you can buy a book, you can’t borrow it. Marrakesh is intended to end the book famine for people who can’t read regular books because of their disability. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2010

Thanks to incredible work on the part of socially responsible publishers, our volunteers and the Bookshare team, we've been adding books at at incredible rate: more than 10,000 books in the last month. Bookshare is piling on books faster than I can read the titles. Ever since I was a kid, I was a title glutton.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup for Libraries. Social media is a powerful tool for libraries as well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. It is large space with a kitchen, library, and enough chairs and technology to accommodate an all-staff meeting including remote staff.

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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. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

In our quest to shine a light on shine a light on what's going on in green IT for nonprofits, libraries, and really anyone running or working in a small to medium sized office, we'd be remiss to not call some attention to a new book by UK-based author, Mark O'Neill called Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

The hope is to be able to celebrate the milestone globally on December 10, 2015, Human Rights Day. Moreover, the UK, which is generally pro-Treaty, has political reasons to not bow to EU authority at this time. Additionally, we have over 200,000 copyrighted accessible book titles already available in most countries in the world.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We've compiled a list of resources including articles, blog posts, webinars, and case studies on best social media practices from our global network. Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup for Libraries. Social media is a powerful tool for libraries as well.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Curated by library staff and educators, the app lets users search by title, author, genre, or list. Apps Made by Youth.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 Google, which is the most-used search engine globally, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both were Ph.D.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. Authors are fighting over how much money they get: it’s clear that they are being paid.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

offers a library of free courses, including a whole index of computer science courses. One big difference, however, is that the Khan Academy is a nonprofit that relies on donations for its global mission. Reference Sites and Books. I'm going old school and recommending a physical book to help you learn how to code.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. One of the programs developed by Benetech is a digital library called Bookshare.org. According to a 2002 WHO estimate, there are 162 million visually impaired people in the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Dipendra has been a subscriber to Bookshare.org for our O'Reilly technical titles, but we're trying to move beyond these into serving a full range of books with publisher and author permissions. I was able to tour the facilities, which included at least three digital recording studios using the DAISY software for human narrated books.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT. But I digress.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. In it they find that the environmental cost to produce a computer and monitor is immense, especially for microprocessors.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Games about the Sixth Extinction , the global food chain , lyme disease , and so much more. Author Bio: Barry Joseph is founder of Barry Joseph Consulting , a driving force at both the strategic and the tactical level in digital engagement, youth development and digital learning. Games about gut microbiology. Games about pterosaurs.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This article references the book The Politics of Design. I pulled out this book, The Politics of Design this week, and it details the way in which global narratives around the color of people’s skin have long upheld the idea that lighter skin is more pure and darker skin is more evil. Edited by Wil Renderos. How are you?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. In his book Natural Capitalism , author Paul Hawken writes that when you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. Growing Supply and Increasing Demand.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. In his book Natural Capitalism , author Paul Hawken writes that when you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. This is because e-books (unlike traditional print) can easily be rendered in many different ways and presented in the format that best suits one’s needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

To combat that guilt, the authors of this article from PsychCentral—” How to Stop Feeling Guilty about Practicing Self-Care ”—suggest reminding yourself that practicing self-care helps you to help others more effectively. But it’s a nice way for us to sit together in the library and just do something that is not work.” . “I

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Web Office tools: Address Book: Plaxo.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

The Public Library of Science is a wonderful example of a reputable, respected peer-reviewed journal where articles are freely available to the public. I started promoting the Public Library of Science to the readers of Nonprofit Online News as far back as December of 2002. I’m in an absurd position, personally.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Author of two books, one just came out last February. We have a live library in our lobby here at Bloomerang. And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Lastly, we travel to advocate for the world to change, from a position of authority based on the change our organizations are already delivering. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. Enough said! Roger Martin).

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