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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe in the power of books to change the world. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

5) Tony Shaw Tony Shaw (charityworks.net) is the Director of Philanthropy for CharityWorks Auction Company, the most distinguished charity auction service in California, he has dedicated himself to charity auctions full time for over 10 years. He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The status quo is that people with print disabilities are experiencing a book famine. Everything that needs doing can be done by license voluntarily. Everything is negotiable under license, except in practice, they don’t want to negotiate about access -- because there’s not enough money involved. And famines have consequences.

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Keeping the Rich History of Virginia Preserved and Secure

Tech Soup

" The library contains thousands of published records, books, manuscripts, periodicals, and microfilms about the Northern Neck region of Virginia. The library gets a mix of both general public visitors looking up family history as well as graduate students, writers, historians, and other professionals. Keeping History Protected.

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Two Truths and a Lie: TechSoup New Products Edition

Tech Soup

Unlike many other subscription services, Box offers TechSoup members 10 perpetual licenses to the service. That means that your team can use the service forever, with no need to renew each year. GoDaddy is a domain-name registration and website-hosting service. Two Truths and a Lie. Two Truths and a Lie.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Photo sharing websites have been around for over a decade, but Flickr was one of the first photo sharing services to use keyword tags to encourage connections between photos and users. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

The service was super quick, but there have been a lot of spelling errors and some missed words, so I end up listening to the recording and reading along with the transcription once or twice before posting. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives? I like CastingWords overall.