Tableau

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s take a closer look at what’s top of mind for IT to best enable the business while scaling your analytics program. . Growing data literacy. Customers have shown us creative and fun ways that IT helps build data literacy, from formal training to community-building activities. Supporting your data infrastructure.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s important to get specific about what your organization wants to achieve, but also keep in mind you aren’t required to improve every single process or fill every gap at one time. 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.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

Let’s take a look at a few ways you can shift challenges into opportunities, keep your association top of mind, and maintain your revenue stream in 2023. The best part is that you already have access to a major part of the solution – your data!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. This is good, basic digital literacy principles that have been taught by educators and librarians taught in the early 2000′s and continue today. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. 10X: ten times the impact. But what about everybody else?

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, while we recognize the challenge of people still being in—and expressing—a pivot/unprecedented/back to normal state of mind, we won’t be rehashing that one this year. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” Illiterate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. Some points that particularly resonated and that I have been working on myself are: Mindfulness is about becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offline.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. With that comes increased priority and urgency to provide resources and support that reduce the data literacy gap. Nearly everyone from HR and marketing to sales and customer support needs to have a solid foundation in data literacy to succeed in the modern workforce." (See

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Tableau

MAY 18, 2022

He looked at two global health indicators—life expectancy and literacy rate—impacted by generational bias and historical information. CJ then took a deeper dive and focused on a case study of South Africa—a country that, for the past 20 years, has had an above global average literacy rate. Closing the Youth Literacy Gap.

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Tableau

MAY 18, 2022

He looked at two global health indicators—life expectancy and literacy rate—impacted by generational bias and historical information. CJ then took a deeper dive and focused on a case study of South Africa—a country that, for the past 20 years, has had an above global average literacy rate. Closing the Youth Literacy Gap.

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Demonstration Classes Skills Data 98

Tableau

APRIL 20, 2022

Then you’ll love this exploration of the recent Tableau data literacy report and how to facilitate lasting data literacy through the lens of—what else?—the Session: Mind the Gap Series. Presenters: Ashley Howard Neville, Tableau and Brian Smith, Cardinal Health. Like the Beatles? the iconic English rock band.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Grow the must-have, base-level skill: Data literacy. With that comes increased priority and urgency to provide resources and support that reduce the data literacy gap. Nearly everyone from HR and marketing to sales and customer support needs to have a solid foundation in data literacy to succeed in the modern workforce." (See

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." Sources: ^ [1] " Financial Literacy for the Long Term ," Philanthropy Matters, Vol. The Moody’s Foundation, 2011.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Let’s take a closer look at what’s top of mind for IT to best enable the business while scaling your analytics program. . Growing data literacy. Customers have shown us creative and fun ways that IT helps build data literacy, from formal training to community-building activities. Supporting your data infrastructure.

Analytics 52

Analytics Mind License Literacy 52

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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Originally created to teach kids and teenagers financial literacy, Goalsetter is expanding its reach to more people with savings and investment management tools. Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app. Mighty Health created a wellness app with older adults top of mind.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Lim teamed up with Benny Yiu and Max Zschoch in 2017 to build HoneyBee with that goal in mind. “We We are solving a massive economic disparity and we’re leveling the playing field in the workplace by reducing the financial literacy gap and providing access to credit to people that need it most,” Lim said.

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Tableau

APRIL 20, 2022

Then you’ll love this exploration of the recent Tableau data literacy report and how to facilitate lasting data literacy through the lens of—what else?—the Session: Mind the Gap Series. Presenters: Ashley Howard Neville, Tableau and Brian Smith, Cardinal Health. Like the Beatles? the iconic English rock band.

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Conference Analytics Literacy Culture 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The second edition of the Connected Student Report highlights what’s top of mind for students—and how staff and higher education institutions can foster student success. . Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. In the U.K.,

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Let’s look at some examples: Minds Matter of Los Angeles. Minds Matter of Los Angeles added a background image of the students that benefit from their programs. Leap for Literacy. Leap for Literacy added a video about their organization at the top of their landing page. Columbia Christian School.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Recently, I had the pleasure to host Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) for exactly such a meeting of minds with ten fellow social entrepreneurs. I’m happy finally to get an opportunity to reflect here on that important event. Senator Harkin is a longtime advocate for people with disabilities.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In Tableau’s Building Data Literacy Guide , 80% of employees report they’d stay in their job if they were trained in technology. Prioritizing data literacy will empower your staff as innovators, helping staff to enact lasting change at your association. . Routine training is key to better skilled and more productive employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy). Being strategically future-minded. Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

As we continue to grow organically and through acquisitions, our philanthropy team supports employees with the opportunity to convene, advocate, and organize like-minded employees into pursuing interests, causes, or endeavors that range from giving back through fundraising and volunteering, to career development and mentoring. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It was designed with Gen Z in mind, a generation that will grow up with the blockchain and most likely own some kind of digital assets, Rush told TechCrunch. The new capital infusion will enable the company to continue building out its app and its high school-focused financial literacy program.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The second edition of the Connected Student Report highlights what’s top of mind for students—and how staff and higher education institutions can foster student success. Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. In the U.K.,

Education 98

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Whether you specialize in healthcare , financial literacy, environmental advocacy, or animal welfare, consider how you can leverage your unique experience and expertise to create quality web content. This makes content generation a low-cost, high-impact way to increase marketing-qualified leads for your nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. Our talks covered a wide range of topics including AIF's work around helping people obtain good livelihoods in general, as well as challenges around adult literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The tough question that ran through my mind was: How can we as technologists in Silicon Valley help prevent this kind of atrocity? I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mindful consumption of information is at the heart of content curation practice. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. He kindly put together two mind maps with links to tools that are free and easy to get started with. We need to go on an information diet. And guest what?

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Tableau

JANUARY 5, 2022

Whether you write blogs (like Donna Coles) or do videos, articulating your learnings cements them in your own mind. Improving business performance through data literacy. Three I’m excited about are Back 2 Viz Basics , Data Plus Music and Games Night Viz. As always, I encourage you to share your learnings. Spencer Baucke.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

My last Davos Diary piece for BBC News was published this week, 'Meetings of Minds'. One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate. They say hi and shake hands.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

First off, in terms of metrics, you need to be very clear in your own mind as to what the exact intended end use of that data will be. I think there are two key points to keep in mind here. Do you have any tips for keeping some perspective amidst all these numbers between actions, tactics, and social impact?

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