Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S. million grant from the U.S.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

This is one we use a ton internally and don’t question nearly enough. Chances are, even if you have, that’s not your actual title (although we recognize some job descriptions do use this language). When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” Brainstorm. Illiterate.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

If you’re trying to develop fluency in a non-native tongue, language immersion is a crucial part of the learning process. The San Francisco-based edtech startup offers virtual-only, English language immersion for kids between the ages of four through 12, by combining a mix of different services from live tutors to gamification.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. They also highlight how kids like Rani refer to the micronutrient powder they get from WFP USA as “magic sprinkles.”.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Help your teams take action in the context of their business processes: Incorporate data assets into employees’ existing workflows and applications by setting up email subscriptions, chat alerts, and @ mentions , or embedding analytics where employees are already spending their time—like internal portals and your CRM.

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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. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Help your teams take action in the context of their business processes: Incorporate data assets into employees’ existing workflows and applications by setting up email subscriptions, chat alerts, and @ mentions , or embedding analytics where employees are already spending their time—like internal portals and your CRM.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Narrative Science’s natural language capabilities are some of the best in the industry. With Ask Data and Explain Data, Tableau is already integrating natural language queries and surfacing explanations in our platform to make data exploration easier. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc.

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Tableau

MARCH 21, 2022

Data literacy empowers more people to leverage AI. Your foundational data strategy plays a huge role in setting up your organization for success with AI, but bringing AI solutions to more people across the business will require a baseline of data literacy. December 10, 2021. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. All rights reserved.

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Tableau

MARCH 21, 2022

Data literacy empowers more people to leverage AI. Your foundational data strategy plays a huge role in setting up your organization for success with AI, but bringing AI solutions to more people across the business will require a baseline of data literacy. December 10, 2021. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. All rights reserved.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Narrative Science’s natural language capabilities are some of the best in the industry. With Ask Data and Explain Data, Tableau is already integrating natural language queries and surfacing explanations in our platform to make data exploration easier. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They build data skills and a common understanding of the language of data. It demands a baseline of data literacy, technology that’s accessible to everyone, and that all-important mindset of data as an enabler, not a detractor. By building data skills and literacy, communities reduce time on task.

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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. . It is similar when you’re learning the language of data. You’re going to see the language being used at its best.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They build data skills and a common understanding of the language of data. It demands a baseline of data literacy, technology that’s accessible to everyone, and that all-important mindset of data as an enabler, not a detractor. By building data skills and literacy, communities reduce time on task.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The startup’s first product will focus on increasing data literacy within startups. As for curriculum, Modal isn’t going the massive open online course provider route and instead is developing all material internally with experts. We own all the content that we’re creating.”

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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. . It is similar when you’re learning the language of data. You’re going to see the language being used at its best.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I immediately saw the potential of being able to connect to my friends and family across distances and being able to read news and research in my other languages and from different perspectives than the media in the US provided. s Degree in Spanish with a minor in International Relations and a Master??? This Blog is an experiment.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Some programming languages have search functions, but they’re difficult to implement and not commonly used. The primary issue is that the code researchers write, run at the command line, needs to be told exactly how to access the files it’s working with — it can’t search for those files on its own.

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Candid

JUNE 27, 2024

Women are disproportionately affected in areas including health care, sustainable agriculture, forced displacement, economic development, literacy, democracy, and mass incarceration While efforts that ignore gender will be limited in effectiveness, those that address gender likely will have ripple effects into other areas. health care system.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy. Disabled World - International facts and statistics on disabilities and disability Issues. Assistive Tech , the U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

One of ARC’s RecTech Coalition programs wanted a Multipoint Server lab in their Chinatown International District Community Center. ARC already has a training lab there that provides lifelong learning opportunities for older adults, many of whom speak languages other than English.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The IEEE VIS conference is the premier forum for academic and applied research in visualization, bringing together an international community to share ideas and celebrate innovation every year. The Polaris user interface with explanations from the paper. Today, we continue the search for new and better ways to work with data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Facebook is also being used for internal communications - conversations between staff about how programs are going as well as cultivate the next generation of donors. How do increase internet literacy with communities? What type of language should i use? A Different Kind of Story. they have a YouTube Channel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. I learned to speak the language fluently, and was there at a really intense time in terms of the civil war, and a lot of the political uprisings that were going on. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. An example of this might be a literacy foundation raising $X to help provide tutoring to X number of students.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. Not just a couple, but 100 of them.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This is an international trend. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. It's now clear that the cost and complexity of securing internal networks from ransomware and other threats is prohibitive when compared to the cloud. Another is surveys.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. It’s actually in three different languages, Chinese, Spanish and English. It’s written for conscious organizers, by conscious organizers.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Makphet Restaurant Vientiane, Laos (and other locations) Makphet Restaurant, photo by Backpack Foodie Like DDD, Friends-International started its efforts in Cambodia and then spread its programs to Laos. I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. ” What are the things donors want to see?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The agency worked with Wyclef Jean for its client TIAA on a sponsored anthem on financial literacy for Black Americans. This is the mystical universe of absurdist oddities and inside jokes that Mondelez International-owned Nutter Butter has crafted for itself across social since 2023, but really took off this past year.

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