Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Being able to read is crucial for life success and independence, and we’re hoping to empower thousands of people to become readers as teenagers and young adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The Pew Research Center has released a research report called “ The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being.” The report, The Future of Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World , was designed to answer the question: Over the next decade, how will changes in digital life impact people’s overall well-being physically and mentally?

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Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

Automation improves the employee work-life balance, and simultaneously lowers job stress levels. When you adopt innovative technology at your association, you have the power to increase worker engagement, productivity, and collaboration. Why this disconnect in data literacy? Create a data-driven culture at your organization.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. To fill this void, we created the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. . Data Literacy Basics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

The mission to create a more equitable, data-literate world requires teamwork and collaboration—that is why we partnered with Pathstream. . In collaboration with Tableau, Pathstream developed a 5-month fully-online Data & Business Analytics Certificate that builds critical skills to connect college and career for non-traditional students.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Nonprofits with which Google hasn’t previously collaborated will be able to apply for up to $100,000 in grants to “offer Google’s reentry skills training to their community.” ” Studies have shown that digital literacy can reduce recidivism , or relapse into crime. ”

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

Sharing: Breaking down silos by emphasizing collaboration. Companies and Tableau customers such as Swiss Life , Bank Mandiri , Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) , and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPMC) have evolved their behaviors and mindsets around data use to establish some of these defining characteristics, becoming data-leading. Trend #2: Trust.

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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. A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." How easy was it to collaborate with your team mates?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) 3) If we want to collaborate; if we see the advantages of shared knowledge and collective action, then technology can help us make it real. 4) The organizational frame is not the only frame and it is inadequate. 5) There is reason to be hopeful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

When it comes to selecting service providers and partners for projects and collaborations, make sure they are just as committed to privacy as you are. We guide parents through raising kids in this digital age, and provide digital literacy curriculum to educators at no cost. Trusted third parties. Privacy across the board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are many tasks in a nonprofit day-to-day life - like grant writing, hiring someone, or prepping a board meeting where personal productivity matters most - connectedness really doesn't play a factor in getting these tasks off the to do list. Certainly we have a baseline of digital literacy skills , but what does that mean in web 2.0,

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

Sharing: Breaking down silos by emphasizing collaboration. Companies and Tableau customers such as Swiss Life , Bank Mandiri , Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) , and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPMC) have evolved their behaviors and mindsets around data use to establish some of these defining characteristics, becoming data-leading.

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Trend Research Data Companies 98

Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

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. She is using the virtual media capabilities in Second Life , among others, to navigate her continued research. Success in Second Life.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The thesis behind the startup, said Jain in an interview with TechCrunch, is to provide financial literacy to teenagers, who additionally have limited options to open a bank account in India at a young age. If the team is able to execute this, FamPay can become a very powerful gateway product to teenagers in India and their financial life.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Black History Month with the Tableau Community Alisha Dhillon: Formatting KPIs in Tableau Data + Diversity Event: “The Life and Impact of Ida B. 27) Learn more about the life and legacy of Ida B. Find the content submission form here. Wells” (Feb.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Black History Month with the Tableau Community Alisha Dhillon: Formatting KPIs in Tableau Data + Diversity Event: “The Life and Impact of Ida B. 27) Learn more about the life and legacy of Ida B. Find the content submission form here. Wells” (Feb.

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Twitter Web United States Storytelling 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

Or remote work’s shift from enabling communication to now needing to enable passive and active collaboration. While Acorns and Stash have similar offerings, EarlyBird is bringing a fresh UX play to financial literacy, freedom and education. Take trends like the rise of building in public or the unbundling of venture capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. I’ve been doing this for two years now. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. Schoemaker. There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes.

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Skills Network Social Media Evaluation 106

Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

The mission to create a more equitable, data-literate world requires teamwork and collaboration—that is why we partnered with Pathstream. . In collaboration with Tableau, Pathstream developed a 5-month fully-online Data & Business Analytics Certificate that builds critical skills to connect college and career for non-traditional students.

Education 52

Education Data Accessibility Build 52

Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

With my experience as a Tableau Ambassador, my role was to advise the organizers as they brought this competition to life. If you don’t, not only do you run the risk of low participation but it will also be difficult to gain cross-functional collaboration. All visualizations were published on Tableau Public.

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Tableau

JANUARY 24, 2023

With my experience as a Tableau Ambassador, my role was to advise the organizers as they brought this competition to life. If you don’t, not only do you run the risk of low participation but it will also be difficult to gain cross-functional collaboration. All visualizations were published on Tableau Public.

Data 93

Data Tips Award Storytelling 93

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Businesses are made up of people, and the success of businesses relies on how those people interact, communicate, and collaborate with each other. I believe life is much more nuanced and that success can only come by looking hard at the whole self - not just through the evaluation of the work self.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There also needs to be tighter collaboration between educational institutions and businesses in Latin America when it comes to upskilling individuals. It would also facilitate distance learning, digital cash transfers, telemedicine and other fundamental aspects of life that have moved to virtual spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Kids are collaboratively working together to build a tale. Gaming is literacy. Dance Game - step on the correct arrow on the beat. Through play, the rules are transformed. They make up improvisational dancing. What you do inbetween the beats is up to you. That's where dancing takes place.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

I believe that sense-making, both individually and in collaborative contexts at work or networked projects, will be the key to navigating the digital information landscape and finding relevant content efficiently in the future. One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. That’s less true.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Bridging the gap between them and facilitating collaboration can be a challenge. Generational workplace training can help employees understand each other’s strengths, build strong communication, and facilitate collaboration. They prefer working in an organization that promotes collaboration and believes in leading by example.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Bridging the gap between them and facilitating collaboration can be a challenge. Generational workplace training can help employees understand each other’s strengths, build strong communication, and facilitate collaboration. They prefer working in an organization that promotes collaboration and believes in leading by example.

Train 52

Train Training Guide Mentoring 52

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Bridging the gap between them and facilitating collaboration can be a challenge. Generational workplace training can help employees understand each other’s strengths, build strong communication, and facilitate collaboration. They prefer working in an organization that promotes collaboration and believes in leading by example.

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Train Training Guide Mentoring 52

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

The goal of the plan is centered around closing the digital divide and facilitating 1) increased access and affordable adoption of digital devices/services, 2) digital devices distribution, and 3) digital literacy programming to assure internet safety.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

To them, there isn''t a distinction between work and life and this is a lesson that Nicole has taken in her own approach to work. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. She echoed the imperative of taking your "whole self" to work every day.

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Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

The report offers hypothetical scenarios and real-life examples illustrating the need to apply an intersectional gender equity lens to all philanthropic work, then outlines recommended practices: Women are disproportionately affected across issue areas Why would prioritizing gender maximize impact in every funding area?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Businesses are made up of people, and the success of businesses relies on how those people interact, communicate, and collaborate with each other. I believe life is much more nuanced and that success can only come by looking hard at the whole self - not just through the evaluation of the work self.

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Leadership Teach Advice 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Businesses are made up of people, and the success of businesses relies on how those people interact, communicate, and collaborate with each other. I believe life is much more nuanced and that success can only come by looking hard at the whole self - not just through the evaluation of the work self.

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Leadership Teach Advice 52