Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. I admit that I mostly read non-fiction, but if I only read social media or geeky books that would be too narrow. Photo By h.koppdelaney. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Hive Mind , powered by the TechSoup Global Network , is a safe learning space for activists, trainers, and organizations around the world. It helps civil society actors build their digital resilience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." What caught my eye was his diagram of how one might use a collection of google apps to for social media listening.

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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. 8-10pm: Entertainment time – television, social media.

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Media deserts in small and mid-sized cities: Local news outlets in smaller cities and towns have also struggled to stay afloat, leading to cuts in reporting staff and reduced coverage. Certain regions, often referred to as “media deserts,” have limited or no access to local news coverage.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This latest Member Round Up features lots of goodies, from tips on social media and email campaigns, to new research on impact investing and Idealist''s funny obsession drawing a famous actor. No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

What about a “social media wizard”? 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. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” Guru / Maven / Ninja / Wizard.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. Less is more on social media. It goes a long way in helping readers get to know Rani and consider donating to help kids like her. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Co-founder and CEO John Tan told TechCrunch that after operating for eight years, Saturday Kids was only reaching thousands of students a year, even though there are millions of kids around the world who need to learn STEM skills. Curiosity, imagination and empathy are just as important as literacy and numeracy skills,” he said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. What role will social media and connectedness play in your quest to improve your professional work? Is learning part of your New Year’s resolutions for 2011?

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2014

There is no skill requirement for getting involved. It’s not uncommon to see retirees working next to kids picking up new skills during school breaks or people in transition hoping to gain professional development. Volunteers help staff triage and test incoming electronics donations, then help tear down or rebuild components.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. What will the future 2020 be like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

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. My favorite housekeeping skill is freezing panes. Top 10 Secrets of Excel Data Nerds. Don’t underestimate the power of high school statistics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Visualize: I am very interested in data visualization and infographics and the various techniques that we can use everyday to visualize our work – and be more creative and effective. I want to understand how to make this skill accessible to all of us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. Listening and engaging with people has been critical to any success I’ve achieved as a social media practitioner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

To learn more about listening, check out these resources: Beth Kanter - What is the value of listening to social media channels for your organization? 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2008

Who are the influential voices in the social media space covering your issue area or topical domain? Social Listening Literacy Skills. So, how do you make listening a part of your social media work? What ideas might they offer for new services or marketing/fundraising campaigns? Internal Process. If so, what reader?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. Digital Literacy Resources.

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Tableau

AUGUST 5, 2022

Vizzes advance as the industry learns more about accessibility and human cognition, and as improved data literacy pushes the world to be more data driven. Consider every day things like television and print media—more data visualizations are seeping into the mainstream. Developing Skills Through Having Fun – Adam Green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

MacArthur Foundation will make a major announcement that will generate a greater understanding of the impact technology and digital media has on today's youth. Mizuko Ito , Research Scientist, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, studying new media. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Who are the influential voices in the social media space covering your issue area or topical domain? Social Listening Literacy Skills. What ideas might they offer for new services or marketing/fundraising campaigns? How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? Internal Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. Data Scientist” is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter.

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Tableau

AUGUST 5, 2022

Vizzes advance as the industry learns more about accessibility and human cognition, and as improved data literacy pushes the world to be more data driven. Consider every day things like television and print media—more data visualizations are seeping into the mainstream. Developing Skills Through Having Fun – Adam Green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.).

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Offer skills-based volunteer opportunities for participants to enhance certain skills, especially tech-related ones. Remember to offer roles where your volunteers can learn new skills and engage with others, just like they can with in-person opportunities. Ask volunteers what they’d like to see.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Participants joined from social media and the TechSoup community, some having arrived fresh from a webinar on websites for libraries held the previous hour, where presenters from Alaska, Nebraska, and Colorado shared their web designs and took questions on their respective hosting platforms. " Responsive Web Design. It's All Doable!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Follow this first event in the forums and on social media with the hashtag #Do1Thing. You just need to master a few tech literacy skills, and come to grips with what most of the big challenges have in common." It's safe to say that most of us are too trusting when it comes to the Internet, and it's easy to be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

[2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Here are a few conversation starters that you may want to have with your social media team on staff to help you prioritize your listening. Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Here's a few steps: Why are you listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. Training in breeding is part of the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. ” I also talked about this from the perspective of nonprofits putting social media into practice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2014

Bringing mobile devices into adult library programs can be an excellent way to promote library e-media and teach digital literacy skills. Join us next Wednesday, July 30 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

In partnership with these organizations, TechSoup will be hosting a series of webinars about technology and innovation for early childhood literacy organizations and researchers. Media Mentors: Building Literacy Skills for the Digital Age. In short, young children need media mentors. Register now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2003

According to this site, In the preschool classroom, children and teachers are working on readiness skills and early literacy experiences. Early Connections - Preschool is a great set links from the Northwest Technology Consortium on integrating technology into the pre-school classroom.

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