Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities. said Stevie. Thanks Stevie!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2011

Technology has revolutionized business, but bringing those breakthrough developments to government, education and the nonprofit sectors can take 5, 10, even 15 years. Through our Bookshare online library, they now have equal access to the books they need for education, employment and full participation in society!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

By his own admission, Chris Thür wasn’t the most obvious person to start a music education company. “We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said. ” Each time, they had to tell him no. “Obviously, we were not the only ones.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Consequently, it is reasonable for the Libraries to retain both the text and image copies. in addition to the text?only

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2011

One of the results of my creating a Generosity Plan was that I remembered how much I care about public education, literacy education, and arts education. When I graduated from college, almost all of my friends worked in public education, including me , but now, they've all left. No funding for a librarian?

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. The Vice President of Global Literacy leads Benetech’s biggest program, standing at the confluence of some of the most active and rapidly evolving fields: digital content, EdTech, domestic and international education, and user-centered design.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Empowering Public Libraries with GyrusAim LMS: A New Era in Learning Management GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In the ever-evolving landscape of public libraries, staying relevant and effectively meeting community needs is paramount. The design is responsive, making it accessible across various devices—whether at home or in the library.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

At TechSoup, we support the efforts of nonprofits and public libraries working to build digitally inclusive and literate communities through donated technology from our corporate partners. project is focused on teaching digital literacy to young people so they can be prepared for 21 st. Microsoft's YouthSpark. century jobs.

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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., as well as our Human Rights Program, which supports activists fighting injustice around the world.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

The ability to read printed material is essential to advancing educational and employment opportunities for this community. at a Department of Education meeting on the new digital textbook repository, the NIMAC. Perhaps it's because I work in the fields of disability, literacy and human rights.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

But with proper education, Internet users can fight back against these digital creeps. Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. And with the Snowden revelations of NSA spying, education around privacy is in higher demand. And when websites or services rely on big data, certain groups are at a disadvantage.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.

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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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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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. Department of Education that enables us to provide the Bookshare library services for free to all qualifying U.S.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As an educator both trained and at heart, Karisa Tashjian, director of programs for Digitunity , combined her early career work with adult immigrants learning English with the power of technology. It requires the continuous development of partnerships and sustainable pathways to device ownership and digital equity for today and the future. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Its library has more than 3,000 micro-skills and personalized learning plans. “It The size of the engagements are a sign as is the interest for tech and non-tech teams to develop AI literacy, which is a more pressing need.”. It is what we call precision upskilling,” he told TechCrunch. We are seeing a need to measure skills,” he added.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Pew reports that the groups least likely to want to use the Internet are senior citizens, disabled people, monolingual Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As an educator both trained and at heart, Karisa Tashjian, director of programs for Digitunity , combined her early career work with adult immigrants learning English with the power of technology. It requires the continuous development of partnerships and sustainable pathways to device ownership and digital equity for today and the future. .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Nonprofits and libraries can use the infographic to help local government and other community leaders understand why increasing information technology access and use should be a critical community-wide goal. The Auburn Public Library is collaborating with Best Buy to offer free technical assistance to community members. as a whole.

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Donorbox

JULY 4, 2022

This worry is understandable, with the United States’ literacy ranking 125th worldwide. Read-a-thons are a great way for schools, other educational organizations, libraries, PTAs, book clubs, churches, and many other nonprofits […]. Parents consistently worry about whether their children read enough.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students. Our students are in deep trouble,” one educator wrote. “Our

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes.

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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. As the first librarian to host it, Karin Bricker, library manager for youth and outreach services at Mountain View Public Library, had to overcome some initial skepticism.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

More than three-quarters of the nation's public libraries offer e-books, but most Americans don't know that this service is provided by their local library. Librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea of change. Want to help people learn how to use e-readers?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

Taking Education to New Heights. Pamela Clark began New Heights Educational Group in 2006, as part of a lifelong commitment to education. Pamela, inspired by her grandmother, saw an obligation to fight against these problems through education. It just clicked to me that I knew I could make this better."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Hydra Mendoza, the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner and the Mayor's Education and Family Services Advisor, provided some sobering statistics about the opportunity gap in San Francisco and worldwide unemployment. "There's a need to grow a highly educated workforce from within," Mendoza said.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Proficiency: User education, measuring adoption and engagement, and increasing data literacy within your organization are important elements that require change management. A deliberate and dedicated focus on education will also address different skill needs across various roles and learning styles.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Proficiency: User education, measuring adoption and engagement, and increasing data literacy within your organization are important elements that require change management. A deliberate and dedicated focus on education will also address different skill needs across various roles and learning styles.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup, are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. If you work with young children at a nonprofit or library, this free webinar series is for you. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. This will (hopefully) enable hundreds of thousands of low-income people to begin using free cloud services like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web Apps, and wide array of online educational programs to name just a few examples. What Is the Digital Divide?

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