Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. Photo credits: Patrick Ball]

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP via Getty Images. Even in an area suffering from low literacy, limited education, and high poverty, a majority of citizens act on information they receive,” write the researchers. “So, A photo from Yale researchers shows Google’s flood forecast service in use on the ground. Image: Google.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images. Even to work at McDonald’s, you’ll get a 30-page online application, and if you’re not comfortable with the drop-down menu, this is really going to be a challenge,” said Kate Eppler, manager of The Bridge at Main, a literacy and learning center in the San Francisco Public Library system.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

Among all that auditory stimulation, if someone added alt text to their photo, you might hear something like “John and I standing with our ankles in the water at the beach. The descriptions that have evolved from years of machine learning still often misidentify what’s happening in photos.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. When you’re talking about technology, literacy and language are usually second tier,” says Jorge Rodriguez, a health technology equity researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. It was rolled out with the first wave of vaccinations last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. Have you experimented yet with Promoted Posts?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo credit: Robert Leslie via TED Via Twitter, I "throw my hat into the ring" for TEDxVolcano and quickly get invited by Nathaniel to be a speaker, joining the likes of Jeff Skoll, Sally Osberg, Matthew Bishop (US bureau chief for the Economist), Larry Brilliant and other Skoll refugees. I thought it was apropos of a volcano theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

Photo by Sean MacEntee. We’re streaming video, posting photos, sharing personal information and listening to music, not to mention “checking in” wherever we go. We guide parents through raising kids in this digital age, and provide digital literacy curriculum to educators at no cost.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. I'm looking forward to reporting on the latest from Route 66 Literacy on my blog and in future updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In the photo, the team is walking her through some of the technical parts of the new system. That photo above is a picture of one of Mr. Luis’s llama looking straight at me part way through our trek. They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy.

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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. Photo credit: Inside Creative House via Getty Images The post The kids are not alright.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

While driving by the facility, which sits in front of a drainage basin, Dale had a thought: Why not also plant a small thorn foresta shady place that would provide respite from the sun and promote environmental literacy while managing storm runoff? Ive talked to people, and its like, Do you know how this is going to enrich your life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

We many not be able to do visualization like a data scientist, but having a basic literacy in visualization skills can help work more effectively with data geeks and navigating our work.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy , a New York Times best seller on controlling the flow of information in the digital age, put it best when he said : Bits are a new material. If having a notebook, pen, or a photo of your significant other on your desk, doesn’t feel like clutter to you, then it’s not.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2011

Photo from '05 for Net2's I Want Change project I need inspiration, and I'm hoping you can help. One of the results of my creating a Generosity Plan was that I remembered how much I care about public education, literacy education, and arts education. So, this is where I need your help. Open my eyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! Everyday Giving Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nutmeg66. Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? Online, I spend time listening , attempting to separate signal from noise. This started when I was in high school. Occasionally, I would egosurf , or search for my name on the Web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

See photo on the left) Together, we joined forces and presented on the top tips and tools for creating visual media with a limited budget, and explained why its so important. This is especially relevant if you''re working with audiences around the world that communicate in multiple languages, or are illiterate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).

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Candid

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By ensuring everyone understands AI’s potential, you improve AI literacy and empower employees to identify innovative uses within their areas of expertise. Photo credit: Kindamorphic via Getty Images The post Inclusive AI adoption to drive nonprofit missions appeared first on Candid insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

I love that photo. We built a new school building for them - and the school is a literacy program. I took it during my last trip to Cambodia, almost three years ago. Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. Their parents are working on our farm project. A sort of Headstart program.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Photo by Stacy K. Photo by Stacy K. Photo by Stacy K. Photo by Stacy K. Etsy helped clear a path, waiving their standard 5 percent transaction fees for a year and donating a $50,000 grant to support Nest in everything from photography, marketing, and brand-building workshops to financial literacy guidance.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Photo via Alabama Association of Nonprofits The Alabama Association of Nonprofits has launched a film festival of works by nonprofits in the state. AAN partnered with the Fidelity Charitable Catalyst Fund to provide grants to 10 nonprofits through a competitive process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth. What will the future 2020 be like? Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Provide cutlines with the first and last names of everyone in the photo as well as the photographer. Embed your photos in the email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

I never realized this before, but one of the photos I took at the Khmer Literacy School has someone's butt in the background. I was relieved that she didn't use the naked photo of me. Christine Martell from VisualSpeak blog created a screencast with a delightful analysis of the photographs used to describe the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. Social Listening Literacy Skills. I'm paraphrasing. The other day a commenter asked me if I could write something that offered some practical how to listening tips as well as applying it. If so, what reader?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Howard Rheingold - Participatory Media Literacy Wiki Henry Jenkins , MIT Comparative Media Program Director (These photos are from yesterday's session in Second Life with him where I got ask him what he thought of the criticisms about Second Life and I will post the answer and pointer to the audio in a bit.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Photo By h.koppdelaney. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. The next iteration of a photo contest, LOL Seals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2013

The genius might have a quote, photo, or object on display to give context to the story, but the majority of the content will be developed and produced by the museum, not the scientist. Both of these approaches have plusses and minuses. Why do we think scientific research is any more or less understandable to the general public than fine art?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo by Yeah It's fIxed (and hoping my roof problems are too). Almost ten years ago, I discovered Doug Johnson's book about internet literacy skills - which includes the mankato scale. Almost ten years ago, I discovered Doug Johnson's book about internet literacy skills - which includes the mankato scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. Guest Post by Frank Barry: Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon. Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Photo or video of how their gift is being used. The right photo or video can really hit the donor squarely in the heart. If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. But in a donation receipt, it is best to choose a happy photo. And your gift made it happen.

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