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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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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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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. In the U.S.,

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

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The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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#CelebrateAdobeCC — It's a Wrap!

Tech Soup

Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Plus, we wanted to share all the winners in one video, created with Adobe Voice, a free tool from Adobe. Please visit the site to view this video).

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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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10 Ways to Find Monthly Donors for Your Small Nonprofit

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They’ll share your content. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. The next month, send them a short video showing your nonprofit in action. Many will give to your Giving Tuesday and year-end campaigns in addition to their monthly gifts.

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