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

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.

Literacy 98

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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. Last week, the Benetech Human Rights Program released version 4.5 Having long supported human rights activists, we know the importance of confidentiality when working with victims and witnesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. Found it via Curata’s collection ).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

CEO Cynthia Chen and CTO Christophe Chong co-founded the San Francisco-based company in late 2019 with the goal of helping consumers without a credit history establish one, and helping those with credit histories to continue building credit. Department of the Treasury. Image Credits: Kikoff.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The goal isn’t simply to try to “fix” the AI, but to learn its shortcomings and develop the skills to use it wisely. Just as digital literacy became essential for participating in modern democracy, AI literacy is becoming fundamental to understanding and shaping our future.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

Periodic technology assessments guarantee that those resources are in good order to deliver on the ambitious goals you’ve set. The objective is to identify strengths and weaknesses and make recommendations for improvements that advance your strategic goals. Be Yourself Every group has unique needs and goals.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? In this post, I will briefly explain how to pinpoint which technology skills folks need, assess current skill levels, provide training that doesn’t stink, and nurture a technology-positive culture where tech skills are a priority.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Amira Learning is helping young students improve their reading literacy with an AI-powered tutor, while CodeSignal has built a platform for tech workers to pick up new technical skills and practice soft skills through AI-powered simulations. But theres a shortage of workers who can fill those positions.

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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. Our goal is to revolutionize the effectiveness of local governments in responding to climate change and other environmental impacts. and James L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1. Now, that’s inspiring!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Instead of coding or other technical skills, the most sought-after skill of tomorrow will be the ability to manage AI systems and teams of AI agents effectively. AI literacy. The three pillars of AI literacy The good news is that anyone can learn AI literacy. The key to surviving this shift?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

And yet data access and the skills required to understand the data are, in many organizations, restricted to business intelligence teams and IT specialists. Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

Modern technology streamlines work processes, allowing employees to take on new projects and grow their skill sets. . Why this disconnect in data literacy? Communicate with staff that you’re offering data training to help grow their skills and develop professionally for your organization and their own betterment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” The formerly incarcerated community faces many challenges, including a lack of digital skills. For example, U.S.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2021

Last year, as jobs, schools, government services, social gatherings, and everyday tasks moved online, there blossomed a growing recognition that digital access and skills are critical in our society and should be a universal human right.

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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.

Literacy 52

Literacy Data Community Help 52

Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Support employees in growing their analytics skills. Ensure alignment to strategic goals and business outcomes: If you’re just beginning to build out your self-service analytics program, start with use cases aligned to priority areas. How does that baseline change by team, skill level, or type of data that people are accessing?

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

It could be as simple as an organization is yet to set any goals, visions, or KPIs for its data. With the assistance of a well-skilled mediator, you’ll receive vital feedback. Thank your staff and members for their time and explain how you plan to address their thoughts by setting goals to improve your organizational data.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

The attributes of a leading Data Culture range from visible characteristics like training methods, tools available and used, and business processes to subtle, hard-to-quantify characteristics such as empathy, identity, and confidence in data skills. This led them to re-evaluate their approach to decision-making, starting with data skills.

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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. In fact, his reading skills are above average and he is on track to be an honor roll student. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the easiest ways to contextualize your work is the United Nations Foundation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Blackbaud Institute’s SDG Connector offers a simplified breakdown of the 17 goals and their 169 targets. The UN Foundation created them to highlight what needs to be achieved by 2030 and track progress.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Support employees in growing their analytics skills. Ensure alignment to strategic goals and business outcomes: If you’re just beginning to build out your self-service analytics program, start with use cases aligned to priority areas. How does that baseline change by team, skill level, or type of data that people are accessing?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. You are someone who dreams about using your management and leadership skills and love of technology for social impact, exceeding the bounds of what a regular for-profit business can do. You’ve come to the right place: Benetech.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

That’s why most mission-driven organizations can benefit from creating a unified data strategy that will keep you focused on your goals. You need to consider and implement the right technology or platforms that enable working with your data to achieve your goals.

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Tableau

JULY 31, 2023

Data communities—networks of engaged data users—create an environment where people can come together to immerse themselves in the language of data, encouraging data literacy and fueling excitement around data and analytics.The most effective data communities provide access to data and support its use with training sessions and technical assistance.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

All of this will at the same time serve the broader goal of ensuring that our democratic right to free association remains intact. Those with low levels of media literacy are often more vulnerable to information disorders and lack effective means to navigate and counter them. Fact-checking is not enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Note from Beth: I made a personal goal for myself to get past my dislike of spreadsheets and become more fluent. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. Why get good at Excel?

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Tableau

MARCH 23, 2022

When businesses build or enhance a Data Culture through technology investments, they support data skills and develop infrastructure to enable wide-scale decision making with data, improving behaviors and beliefs across the organization. Provide specific goals and their related KPIs to help teams measure success. On average, 73.5%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

For the last five years, I have been using Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words ” to identify three words that help you visualize your goals for the year. Last year, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. I love Bregman’s idea.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

The attributes of a leading Data Culture range from visible characteristics like training methods, tools available and used, and business processes to subtle, hard-to-quantify characteristics such as empathy, identity, and confidence in data skills. This led them to re-evaluate their approach to decision-making, starting with data skills.

Trend 98

Trend Research Data Companies 98

Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My predecessor, Stephanie Richardson, summed it up nicely : “When we think of Data Culture, it really is about bringing people along for that transformation, and not only enabling them with the right technology, but also with the skills, the support, the community, the learning—all of those things that go with trying to change someone’s behavior.”.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Forward funders have coalesced around an aspirational goal to move from individual grantmaking strategies to a shared vision and coordinated action. Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

When I open my google/gmail accounts, I have to a purpose and a goal - and be very disciplined or else risk getting distracted. Can we expect that down the road five or ten years that we might have "social literacies, skills, and competencies" at the nonprofit staff level? social media context?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

When those who are responsible for an organization's overall fiscal management responded to a study by The Moody Foundation, it was found that nonprofits need to "fortify their financial skills to better forecast future needs, navigate economic instability, and manage risk." The Moody’s Foundation, 2011. 22. ^ [4] Ibid. Pg 18. ^ [5] Ibid.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. The school has almost a dozen different social enterprises that provide access to these job skills. One of those areas is of course computers, and that's where AIF comes in.

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