The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Family sharing will allow any group of Stadia users linked through Google’s Play Family Library system to use one digital license for a game purchase across multiple accounts. Google says you will need to have a valid payment method attached to share your library. There are some restrictions.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

Candids Issue Lab is an open-access library dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing reports, case studies, surveys, and toolkits published by social sector organizations. Lighting Up the Future for Children: Balancing urgent needs and future opportunities by the Institute for the Future. The state of diversity in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. The library has new promotional materials to use. Their prize was a Dell Latitude Tablet 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Save the Children. has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

According to his mom, this experience is common to children with Cerebral Palsy. Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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The Next Web

APRIL 25, 2013

Shaun was an Oprah Winfrey Scholar at Morehouse College and is based out of California with his wife, Rai, and their 4 young children. His social media and web projects have raised over $5,000,000 for charity, received over 100 million visits on the web, and recently won the Mashable Award for Most Creative Social Good Campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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The Next Web

APRIL 24, 2013

Shaun was an Oprah Winfrey Scholar at Morehouse College and is based out of California with his wife, Rai, and their 4 young children. His social media and Web projects have raised over $5,000,000 for charity, received over 100 million visits on the web, and recently won the Mashable Award for Most Creative Social Good Campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But, I expect that 75% of the job will be about analyzing the legal issues from our programs, especially in our Global Literacy Program, which includes Bookshare, the largest digital library for the blind and dyslexic in the U.S., Digital signatures for parents/guardians wanting to sign up their children with disabilities for Bookshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Google Photos’ Locked Folder feature, which lets you hide sensitive photos and videos from your main library and secure them in a passcode- or biometric-protected folder, is coming to all devices running Android 6 and above. You set up a Locked Folder by going to Library > Utilities > Locked Folder in the Google Photos app.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Old dogs like Nickelodeon are out; Moonbug is in Although The Umbrella Academy was all over Tumblr and people couldn’t seem to stop bingeing Cobra Kai and Lucifer , one of Netflix’s most-watched shows in August was a three-episode children’s program called Cocomelon. It has since been a constant on Netflix’s top trending row.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It will help those lingering outside the library with a laptop just to get a wireless signal for remote learning.”. This is a program that will help those at risk of digital disconnection,” FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement Thursday. “It Rosenworcel said the program will be available within 60 days.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

The presentation in Bayamon was attended by Igri Enriquez, director of the Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Impaired. This photo was taken in a library in San Juan. Within these regions there are nine Service Centers for Special Education that train and service teachers and students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

He has helped developed a technology and library center in the rural school in his village and is implementing a program that is teaching kids ICT skills. When he discovered that the library had no books and with school just starting, Rajen arranged for a donation to supplement what the director had purchased with her own salary.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

They hail from a wide array of institutions, including a food bank, city government, a refugee resettlement agency, multiple libraries, an adult literacy organization, and an organization that works with formerly incarcerated individuals.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Baltimore County Public Library Silver – Education Libraries are crucial for community education, and the Baltimore County Public Library excels with its innovative digital platform. Forum One migrated the library’s website from SiteExecutive CMS to Drupal. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. Notice that it is because of Carrie's work that almost 10 percent of Bookshare's library exists.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

AVOs are among the most important and most invisible building blocks of our communities: Members of all-volunteer organizations read to children, care for the dying, get clean water legislation passed, serve as volunteer fire departments, help people overcome alcoholism, bring music into prisons, and help refugees get settled.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

We benefit from the resources, brainpower, and strength of organizations and individuals to help us support NGOs and public libraries worldwide. We were introduced to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through our common interest in libraries. TechSoup and the IMLS Are Library Champions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Plus, learn how to use Storify to capture insights at your next event, discover low-cost tools for visual communications, and tips on how to build a compelling visual library. >>Enjoy, Also, meet Omar Vulpinari , the man behind some of the most provocative visual campaigns. >>Enjoy, and subscribe!

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. " Library-Specific Curriculum. MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region. But they are still kids.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In its presentation, Google used the example of parents hiding pictures of a newly purchased puppy from their children. The feature should be available to phones running Android 6 or later, and I was able to access it on my Pixel 2 running Android 11 by going to Photos > Library > Utilities. Surely a relatable concern.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Based on my experience with the Sharing Foundation in Cambodia, I know how important it is for children in developing countries to have books to read in their own language.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

It accuses Roblox — a massively popular, kid-focused platform for games and social experiences — of hosting a shared library of copyrighted but unlicensed songs. The complaint alleges that Roblox “actively preys on its impressionable user base and their desire for popular music, teaching children that pirating music is perfectly acceptable.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Or, as seen by a growing trend this year, developers deliberately sabotaging their own software libraries as a means of protest — turning software into “protestware.” It wasn’t a malicious actor hijacking and altering these legitimate libraries. The recent rise of protestware. Image Credits: TechCrunch / screenshot.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

The Bundle for Ukraine supports two charities, the International Medical Corps and the Ukraine-based Voices of Children which provides mental health services to children who’ve experienced the trauma of war. platform in order to make part of its library of games available in the bundle.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The update also brings with it some of Apple’s communication safety features , one of which will blur iMessages sent to children that an on-device scan tags as potentially being explicit. Apple has since delayed the photo library scanning feature and has made it so that children get to choose whether to notify their parents.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2009

We checked out library books on building and maintaining a blog, taught ourselves some basic web design techniques – again from library books and online articles – and chose a free blog hosting service. Our cause, providing free after-school training for children with dyslexia, encompasses centers spread across several states.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Together they toiled in a library basement—the newly arrived with little knowledge of English and computers to create vibrant slide presentations about things they love, birthday cards for their children, and even résumés.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.

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