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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

Tech Soup

Learn how to become a social organization with tips from Yammer 's director of community. See how one organization plans to bypass the crowds by teleworking during the Olympics (and the tools they’re using to do it). arts organization , and a Canadian wildlife organization to better fulfill their missions.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

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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. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. And, Benetech is committed as an organization to all of these six principles.

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Small Library — Big Service to the Community

Tech Soup

How the Natalia Library Helps Patrons Improve Their Lives. The Natalia Veteran's Memorial Library serves the small town of Natalia, Texas. With extremely limited resources, librarian Amy Edge must make difficult decisions every day about what her library can provide. It netted $2,500 for the library.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. Office Tools No matter how small your organization is when you start, you need a basic office setup. There are two major players: Google Workspace , formerly known as G Suite, and Office 365.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

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I’m not sure even the global scientists, engineers, and futurists have a full sense of where we’re heading with AI. Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. Thankfully, they changed the name to Google.

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