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. That is what the #Tech2Empower program is all about!

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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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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. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well.

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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.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

They work "to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences, and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage. Photo: Br3nda. Global Kids' Online Leadership Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. 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. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Qui Diaz, The Big Dig: Online Listening and Research Amy Naslund, How and Why of Listening David Alston, Top Reasons To Listen KD Paine, 27 Different Types of Conversations Beth Kanter, Listening Literacy Skills Beth Kanter How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofits.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He has an intricate hierarchy of file folders on his computer, and he sorts the photos on his smartphone by category. But the issue is likely not that modern students are learning fewer digital skills, but rather that they’re learning different ones. Guarín-Zapata is an organizer. Now, he thinks of his hard drives like filing cabinets.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. I think this has interesting implications for how organizations talk about and advocate for public access technology and skills development.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Platform Specific Tools and Advanced Techniques Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash The modern data ecosystem keeps evolving and new data tools emerge now and then. However, even basic ETL pipelines would require a certain level of Python programming skills. It was created by Spotify to manage massive data processing workloads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2008

Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Social Listening Literacy Skills. Last year, I was in a room at the BlogHer Conference where there was a discussion about how we might focus BlogHers Act Campaign on maternal health. There were many different ideas expressed. How will you share the information? Are you currently using RSS Reader?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. I hope this sets me free.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. Photo: phonakins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. For our interest, less interest in games for skill development. The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. Interfaith literacy events and interesting learning opportunities. Studies confirm that creative activities – painting, drawing, dancing, playing music, theatre, or singing – can improve employee productivity and skills. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

blog Streetside Stories Mission: "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic. Photo of Dora the Cat by Me.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse. DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill. The same can be done with recipes or any other subject where you can benefit from the writing skills of your group.

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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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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pet Photo Contest Capture the community’s love for their furry friends by organizing a pet photo contest, with participants paying an entry fee for a chance to showcase their pets and win prizes. Offer Classes Host workshops or classes in various skills, charging an admission fee for participation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence."

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Young Pham, who regards his tech skills as medium, set up the MultiPoint Server system. It will also be used for digital literacy classes, and perhaps for ESL classes. Image: Young Pham of ARC, photo by Charles Brennick. It took him 30 minutes to set up hardware largely without using the directions we supplied.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. The Gentle Carousel Facebook page has more than 202,500 likes.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

By the end of this post and with a bit of practice, you’ll understand and have the skills to turn your story into a great video, from planning to shooting to editing to publishing to sharing, all on the smartphone you carry in your pocket! Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2015

These days, people often share images that communicate a wealth of nuanced information (rather than relying on words), and visual literacy is becoming a requirement. Flickr — Includes lots of cool vintage photos. The Noun Project — Use this site to find lots of great icons that you can add to photos or designs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. The privacy concerns are huge, though. Nearly half of them were in the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. Assessment tools like the Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills report can help you couch both your goals and evaluation in contexts that are well-understood by funders and executives alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. The most important listening literacy skills are. Reiteracy is Social Media Listening Literacy. Use Some Creative Thinking Skills.

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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

[Cover Images: Little Brown Ink, First Second/Macmillan] Graphic novelsa term interchangeably used with comic booksare particularly popular among young children still building their literacy skills. Kids are now fluent in a kind of visual literacy that their parents don’t even recognize as a skillset, says Tripathi.

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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. Most of the quilters lacked tech skills or experience, internet access or even cell signal, the ability to photograph the work, or the know-how to market it well. Allen for Nest. Stella Mae Pettway. Allen for Nest. Sharon Williams.

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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. Listening skills and tools upgraded. In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. There is a gap in social skills, experience, and knowledge when you only have 10-15 minutes of access in library versus 24/7 access at home. The young people who don't have pervasive access will fall behind in terms of skills. It starts in the home.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Streetside Stories "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Image Credits: TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images. There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. Those of us who read a lot of tech and business publications have heard for years about the cybersecurity skills gap. There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 13, 2025

Prom Season Behaviors and Activities Youth Behaviors & Activities Around Prom Before Prom Digital “promposals” featuring AR filters, interactive elements, or collaborative TikTok challenges Virtual try-on technology for outfits using AI fashion apps Collaborative playlist creation on streaming platforms Social polling for outfit/venue/theme (..)

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