Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here’s a great example from Hearts Speak: You can see the rest of their home page at www.heartsspeak.org. Here’s a great example of a Donate page from Clowns Without Borders : 3. Most online donation tools offer default language for this, but you need to customize it so the language is warm and on brand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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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. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? What language are you speaking? For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. The same is true for many other languages. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Probably not.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

Founded by Indian Institute of Management professor Brij Kothari, the first concept was same language subtitling. When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. Another example of scale, South Asian style! They are already well past doing just Indian languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

It includes people who are blind, visually impaired, reading disabled (example: dyslexia) or have a physical disability that gets in the way of effectively holding a book, turning pages or focusing on the page. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Articles 5 and 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The Mashable audience truly wants to do good in the world and they were inspired to hear and see many different examples and opportunities to support. There were many examples of how social, mobile, and other new digital technologies are being used to scale good bridge digital divides. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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MAY 16, 2022

Here are just a few really good, real life examples: Draft Gratitude relies on their Monthly Giving Team to cover about half of their monthly expenses for the horses. Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. Divide that amount by 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks. All of my examples were from universities, Jewish Day schools, and camps that made up the audience. When I taught Networked Nonprofit workshops for NGOs from India and Pakistan , all the examples and even the icebreakers were relevant.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. Direct Content. Indirect Content. Why Social Media?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

For example, when we asked respondents if they were using a specific cloud-based app (such as Skype), responses were different than when we asked if they used a cloud-based app to perform a function, such as web conferencing. Here are some examples: 62% of global respondents cite cost as an advantage to adopting cloud computing.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

India drafted its first data privacy bill. This information must be presented to data subjects “in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.” (Art. 2018 was a seminal year for privacy. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees. Make it easy to read and understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page. What is Jumo? by Steve MacLaughlin. So What and Who Cares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. You have to set an example and it only takes a few people to do that and it seeps into the group."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work. Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! That's what that is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. I'm still recovering. No wonder I am still tired!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. Partners in Health: Fanta’s Story.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. So WhatsApp is available in multiple languages. So you can download the app in any language almost.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally? That to me is the definition of success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

One famous example of this approach is the affordable licensing and thus wider availability of drugs to combat HIV/AIDS in the developing world, which has literally saved the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. We need to encourage limitations and exceptions (like the one in the U.S.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 30th, 2010 Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# National Wildlife Federation , for example, is very active on various social networking websites and they immediately appeared in several places on my Jumo page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Rather than go on, instead, I want to give some examples and highlight the cool factor of how mobile can add some out-of-the-box type thinking to an overall health and/or social marketing-related initiative. The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. What do we do with this one word?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2013

The World Blind Union''s lead negotiator pointed out how these provisions would, in practice, stop Bookshare from serving blind people in India. The United States'' copyright exception for the blind is a shining example of something that complies with the three-step test. The "Three-Step Test" Chokehold. Which leads to #3.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

That's probably the clearest example I can give you of how these programs work when the villagers themselves say, "Oh, yeah, a year ago this many people went missing from our village and this year only one person." I was born in India, in Bombay, and I have four brothers and sisters. BB: What brought you to this work?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I’m going to give you one more example of this. ” I’m kind of messing with the board a lot today, but this example just keeps coming. So I’m working with someone and he has an organization based in India. “More useful tips about language we should use.” this has been a while.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Whether it’s AirBnB , the Sharing Cities Network or Car2Go , the range of sharing economy examples is reaching a tidal flood. We should be vigilant when companies with half-a-billion dollar valuations wrap social good initiatives in shiny, marketing wrappings and assume the language of urban planning. … They Like Cities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The leader, for example, of a religious movement. For example, this idea of using poetry, as the girls are in Zimbabwe, would probably not work in other cultures that don't have that predisposition towards poetry. Muslim women; for example, tell me about birth control methods that they are using. They are making progress.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago.

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