Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. For example, this summer, SocialCoding4Good organized “code sprints” at Google and LinkedIn during the companies’ volunteer service events, GoogleServe and LinkedIn for Good InDay. Bookshare has made my homework easier,” Brennan says.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. This blog will be a great place to start, but if you find yourself praying no one asks you questions about the financials in your next board meeting, you may want to check out our Nonprofit Accounting Essentials course in partnership with The Charity CFO. .

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Although the challenges differ by region, the outcome is the same everywhere: young people are simply not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's workforce. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just follow these steps: Go to Google's Blog Search. For example, I don't have a very common name, so I use (Katherine OR Kate) AND Bladow. Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? Amy Sample Ward - Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. Luckily, we seem to be too small, and our human rights activist users don’t seem to be a top priority for them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

I'm slowly finding my way back into a blogging routine among other routines that have been disrupted by the move. So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. It's the everything is new, different, and not familiar.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, while we recognize the challenge of people still being in—and expressing—a pivot/unprecedented/back to normal state of mind, we won’t be rehashing that one this year. When either is misappropriated or used casually to refer to someone who is skilled at any random thing, their importance and significance are greatly diminished.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). But now, the process of listening has changed concerns into strong interest about what people have to say." The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross. The examples would show how engaging with people changed them from complainers to fans.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Throughout the day, well be living blogging sessions from MCON13 , a conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. It''s important to equip them to learn leadership skills and hear what they are thinking. For example, the foundation brought farmers in Ghanda into US corporate offices to talk about their work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. According to this blog post from ChurchMag, "a Facebook and Twitter post gets shared more with an image than without, 2.5x and 2x, respectively." Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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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. And the blog post’s playful tone draws readers in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I hope this sets me free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. The young people who don't have pervasive access will fall behind in terms of skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Notes from live blogging. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Games examples: Identity and social clicks in high school Globalization - Sim game about you could plounder a developing country Panchatantra - a board game.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

One would like to think that after 20 years of testing, more testing, conferences, webinars, and pithy blog posts about online giving that there might be wide adoption of best practices. For example, 65% of charities still do not pre-select a mid-range gift on their donation forms even though the data shows this approach performs better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. The skill set: Play ??? Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2005

I've been researching typing skills curriculum for young children for an after-school ctc. I found some excellent lesson plans where the emphasis is on integrating typing into learning, early literacy skills. One example had a family - the clicker family. Each finger puppet has a job or is assigned to a letter in a row.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc. For example, my five year-old loves the SF Symphony Kids site. At least for artists/arts educators.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

TechSoup will only be able to achieve our mission (which is to help you achieve your mission) when we're able to give you the tools, skills, and community to leverage technology effectively. Naples, Florida: Boost Your Nonprofit's Blogging Strategy. Find your local #Tech4Good group. Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Reform Copyright.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

An example clue may be: near the towels; or in sea on the South West coast. If you have a blog, write something about this event! The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. We had a group and teams with mixed level of skills and that be a little difficult.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, instead of using sheets of paper to track bids at a silent auction, users could enter their bids on a tablet or via an app on their phone. If you want to learn a bit more about hosting a silent auction, check out our blog post on the eight steps to running a stellar event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” If you say, “we need a blog,” others in your organization won’t know how to contextualize that within the programs and mission of the institution. That’s fine.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. Worth, Texas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I wrote about that visit in my last blog post: Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos. One of their programs is to have restaurants that provide employment opportunities and skills development for street kids on their way out of poverty. I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

We need to lead by example for our teams to show them that it's ok to fail and fall down, because we've done it ourselves. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

We need to lead by example for our teams to show them that it's ok to fail and fall down, because we've done it ourselves. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

One example proves we'll reach our goals. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. students.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2015

These days, people often share images that communicate a wealth of nuanced information (rather than relying on words), and visual literacy is becoming a requirement. The above image shows an example of Meggan reworking a newsletter layout: on the left is her first effort; on the right is the final product. The future is a visual one.

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