Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. Format your tweets for easy reading.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. How Does the Treaty Meet this Goal? It does that in two main ways.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

We talked about bringing English language Bookshare to Qataris with print disabilities, and our discussions quickly went to what it would take to truly serve Arabic speakers in Qatar and around the world. There is a tremendous need to expand accessible content in the languages that most people with print disabilities around the world use.

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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. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. I’ve been to national meetings in the U.S. The context We’ve been supporting the World Blind Union and other groups in the pursuit of a Treaty for the Visually Impaired for the last five or six years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It was exciting to be an active player in global diplomacy: Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries hope to have, both in terms of accessing our 200,000+ books and having their own national version of Bookshare. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. It is one of the BRIC nations with its economy growing at 8% annually.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

The innovations and technologies mentioned in the survey are: green energy, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and wind and solar power; artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI; gene-based medicine, such as mRNA vaccines, gene splicing, and gene therapy; and genetically modified foods.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Its key points are: • A recommendation that import and export be permitted under national law in all WIPO-member countries between Trusted Intermediaries (“TIs”), a narrow class of nonprofits and government agencies with a primary mission to serve the print disabled, with the option of charging TIs for the privilege to do so. •

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

Write posts in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Nonprofits tend to mostly post content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. Format your posts for easy reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. The program was presented at the Texting for Health Conference this past February, and hopes to provide the tool in multiple languages as well! *. But, for creative juices, let’s show off some coolness.). *. Organization(s) : The U.S. Cool Factor : Cost Effective.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

national experience. The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. It’s what makes our Bookshare service legally possible. copyright law.

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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.

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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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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. He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution. There's a woman in India, Darshan Shah, who started a weavers' co-op.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2011

Then, over the next 12 hours, on comes nonprofits in India, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. There are ex-pats in every corner of the globe, media outlets of every nationality, and allies from other countries that your nonprofit does know exist yet. Google Chrome makes it very easy!

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

One of the top three advocacy positions in the United States of both the National Federation of the Blind and of my organization is campaigning for greater accessibility of commercial electronic books. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. As I was traveling to 12 countries to interview women artisans, a woman in India said, "Come back in the fall and we'll teach you how to dance the dances that we perform all night to honor the mother god, Durga."

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Often though, action alerts and fundraising appeals are written for senior management’s approval and just use their own wonky, boiler plate language. Greenpeace India offered their support. This needs to change ASAP. We raised $ 2,000 in 48 hours to get them started. Last week, they wanted a web site, ICT kit and other resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

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. What about Portland’s network of grass-roots nonprofits , local meet-ups as well as national leaders ? AirBnB tells us… that.…

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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. Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food.

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