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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To paraphrase Mark Twain, I didn’t have time to write a short blog post, so I wrote a long one. Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare.

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. They should be great examples of accessible textbooks, and allow teachers in training to access them, parents, assistive technology developers and so on.

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Use TechSoup's Content for Free!

Tech Soup

, thanks to our Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a charity that champions reduced restrictions on copyrighted work by creating licenses that make it clear how material can be used, changed, and shared. Creative Commons has devised a set of six free and easy-to-use copyright licenses.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. Social Media. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Creative Commons Licensing Teachable Moment and An Apology!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original Photo by Pearlbear from Nosi Salon 12/11/06 at SF Nonprofit Technology Center. Two days ago, The Tech Chronicles Blog published a post about Marc Canter's "Ahem Society" that used one of my flickr photos. So I complained in flickr , my blog and left a comment on the Tech Chronicles Blog. (I

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. You can log in using OpenID.

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Get a Google Earth Pro License for Free! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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