Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 30, 2014

Our goal is to make it far easier for groups that work with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential. We see it as a milestone in our continuing effort to better serve our current users as well as the larger community involved in human rights documentation, including journalists and citizen reporters.

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DataRobot

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For companies implementing AI systems, that risk extends beyond revenue to the reputational damage of using an algorithm that is perceived to be discriminatory or harmful to vulnerable groups. Data Literacy for Responsible AI. White Paper. Download Now.

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Tableau

JULY 31, 2023

Larissa Amoroso Senior Director, Tableau Community, Tableau Ateken Abla July 31, 2023 - 10:22pm August 5, 2023 Analytics is essential for the future of work as more organizations embrace data to make decisions, delight customers, track progress, and innovate their products and offerings. The DataFam is part of what makes Tableau so unique.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Thanks to some serious development effort, we will be able to launch Community Operating System Portals with a click. What about that literacy initiative, or the Jobs Program? Or said another way, technology is finally able to support the complex, dynamic, and evolving needs that are our communities. This is not a small thing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Director, Tableau Community. But adopting the right analytics platform isn’t enough: The ultimate accelerator of your data investments is community. I now have the privilege of leading what we lovingly refer to as the world’s greatest data community. And they enable that cultural sea change with community.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

Other options to consider are social and community listening. You can see conversations grouped together by sentiment: positive, neutral, or negative. The same can happen by listening to conversations in your online community. Learn more about how to leverage your virtual community conversations with this on-demand webinar.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Also, take a look at what other associations are doing, what others within your community are focusing on, or even what industry partners are seeing as trends. Try to avoid adding more than 5 people per group or department. Time box your long-term goals based on months, quarters or even years. Don’t strive for perfection.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Foster community that builds and celebrates your Data Culture. Data literacy is the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data—and it’s fundamental to organizations’ success with analytics for data-driven decision-making. Foster community among data users. Let’s take a closer look at each.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Director, Tableau Community . But adopting the right analytics platform isn’t enough: The ultimate accelerator of your data investments is community. I now have the privilege of leading what we lovingly refer to as the world’s greatest data community. And they enable that cultural sea change with community. .

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Foster community that builds and celebrates your Data Culture. Data literacy is the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data—and it’s fundamental to organizations’ success with analytics for data-driven decision-making. Foster community among data users. Let’s take a closer look at each.

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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. This year, it’s been especially worrisome to see the rising tide of violence against the lesbian and gay communities around the world. But what about everybody else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. He talked about the opportunities and challenges he sees ahead, especially as technology tools continue to be adopted by more of the human rights community, from cell phones to Facebook. But this week, human rights was front and center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. To help you understand it better, let me pick it up where I left off, back in 1993.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

They jumped in head first to address significant digital inclusion challenges in a pandemic, figuring things out as they went, innovating, creating, and iterating to support their communities in the best way possible. Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

That requires a drive deep into the Alabama Black Belt, along red dirt roads with little to no cell signal, through an isolated stretch of grassy meadows and pine woods, to a community deep in an oxbow of the Alabama River that, if the ferry’s not running, is nearly 40 miles from the closest hotel, supermarket, or pharmacy. Photo by Stacy K.

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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. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face.

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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." I met with the group last week.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. Within a short period, SocialCoding4Good has gone from a Labs pilot project to a growing community driving social impact. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

Many groups received BTOP funding. developing ways to keep their community engaged and interested in improving. developing ways to keep their community engaged and interested in improving. How to Evaluate Your Digital Literacy Program Thursday, June 30, 11 a.m. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided $7.2

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

Unfortunately, people decided this phrase had a nice ring to it, and now its use runs rampant as a broad, informal reference to any group of people who are physically present in any place doing any work to achieve something. Bring back the human element and shift the focus to the people who live where you’re communicating. Illiterate.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

say something like, Join a community of climate game-changers to level up your environmental advocacy skills! Prioritize making your nonprofits website a valuable educational resource for your community. Rather than saying, Subscribe today! Follow the full instructions in Googles guide to the process.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Community engagement: Nonprofits can support initiatives that engage the public in the news-making process, such as town hall meetings, citizen journalism projects, or community media literacy programs. Within our own Bloomerang community we celebrate two nonprofits that are keeping local news alive, 90.7

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

Flickr: Newfrontiers NTEN is excited to announce a new opportunity for year-round community engagement: Communities of Practice (CoPs). CoPs are being established at NTEN to create deeper networking and educational experiences for members of the NTEN community at large.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . The best way to learn Spanish is to go to Spain for three weeks,” said Stephanie Richardson, vice president of Tableau Community. “It

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Tableau

JULY 31, 2023

Larissa Amoroso Senior Director, Tableau Community, Tableau Ateken Abla July 31, 2023 - 10:22pm August 5, 2023 Analytics is essential for the future of work as more organizations embrace data to make decisions, delight customers, track progress, and innovate their products and offerings. The DataFam is part of what makes Tableau so unique.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study, while data analytics is a higher priority for organizations, just one-third of association professionals report their data is excellent or very good. Take your information-gathering process a step further by surveying members or forming a focus group.

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Tableau

MAY 18, 2022

Senior Director, Tableau Community, Tableau. He brought along a new co-host and partner in crime, Tableau Community Marketing Manager Danika Harrod. He looked at two global health indicators—life expectancy and literacy rate—impacted by generational bias and historical information. Closing the Youth Literacy Gap.

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Tableau

MAY 18, 2022

Senior Director, Tableau Community, Tableau. He brought along a new co-host and partner in crime, Tableau Community Marketing Manager Danika Harrod. He looked at two global health indicators—life expectancy and literacy rate—impacted by generational bias and historical information. Closing the Youth Literacy Gap.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

We're only two months away from our official transition to Communities of Practice – you can read more about the transition to CoPs here – and are really excited about the progress we've seen. They are free for everyone, regardless of NTEN member status, and a great way to learn from other members of the community.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

"We hope that free Wi-Fi will be a resource that the city and other local groups will be able to use in their efforts to bridge the digital divide and make their community stronger," said Veronica Bell, a senior manager for public policy and government relations at Google, in a statement. Powering Communities with Tech.

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2014

Electronics that live to see another day are given back to the community or sold in Free Geek’s thrift store. Since 2000, Free Geek has given away over 16,000 computers to community members, nonprofits, social good groups, and schools. We enjoyed our visit to Free Geek and are excited to share it with the community!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. Partnering with schools and communities to reduce chronic absence We know that all kids benefit from being at school.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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