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. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. Those experiences not only informed my teaching, but it became a personal passion to bring foundational data skills to all. That’s why I was thrilled to join the Tableau Academic team, which understands the importance of bringing these data literacy skills to students.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Teach them about fundraising. Simply getting new members to understand how to read a finance statement is another first step to financial literacy for board members. Take advantage of National Literacy Month.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data. Here’s how organizations can improve their data literacy with a four-step action plan: 1. Data literacy involves more than having a set of skills.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 We are thrilled that this program is offered at such a storied historically black college or University (HBCU). Eleanor Cooper , Pathstream CEO.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Integrating Narrative Science with Tableau will scale this capability across the Salesforce ecosystem and help customers deliver data insights to even more people in the form of easy-to-understand stories. . Gartner , “Augmented Analytics: Teaching Machines to Tell Data Stories to Humans,” James Richardson, June 23, 2021.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, you’ve most likely heard every industry leader teach this until they’re blue in the face! It’s crucial that your online donation forms and landing page match the story you’re telling. An impact statement is your organization’s story about your influence on the community. Leap for Literacy.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Integrating Narrative Science with Tableau will scale this capability across the Salesforce ecosystem and help customers deliver data insights to even more people in the form of easy-to-understand stories. . Gartner , “Augmented Analytics: Teaching Machines to Tell Data Stories to Humans,” James Richardson, June 23, 2021.

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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. To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. Social Listening Literacy Skills. Read this story by the American Stroke Association. I'm paraphrasing. How will you share the information?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

If you have kids, you probably also read bedtime stories to them. It is a story about a tree that gives everything to a young boy at every stage of his life. I thought about that story when I saw Dave Cormier's Connectivism Wiki or MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses). For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ???

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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. . Its story shows that, sometimes, a focus on skills is not enough—oftentimes, you need community support. Sharing must be included in the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 We are thrilled that this program is offered at such a storied historically black college or University (HBCU). Eleanor Cooper , Pathstream CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Pew Research Center recently released the full collection of anecdotes and stories shared by experts about their personal experiences with digital life. While the study showed that the negatives were not as many as the positives, the stories shared by respondents point to how internet has challenged personal well-being and relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

In addition to going to a bilingual and bicultural school, I was already set on the path of understanding that there are always multiple sides to a story, perspectives, opinions, ways to express yourself, etc. The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s s webmaster.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We are offering a Dell Latitude 10 tablet refurbished by our friends at CDI to the best “ Digital Connector ” story lead. Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. Enter your story by 5:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

During this time of year, when the news media is dominated by stories of pepper spray attacks over video game consoles and hoards of shoppers stampeding stores at 4 a.m., And while you’re at it, c heck out PEC’s and InvestED tech stories on the LIM. Giving Tuesday provides us with an opportunity to change the dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. I got some of the back story form Julio Vasconcellos , VP for Business Development, for the Experience Project which operates TwitCause. "I x (Total Retweets).

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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. . Its story shows that, sometimes, a focus on skills is not enough—oftentimes, you need community support. Sharing must be included in the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. You need to begin with sharing some stories about how other nonprofits are getting value from listening. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Share your story with us in the comments. More Resources. Microsoft YouthSpark Hub. century tech or business skills?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Second, the productivity difference between basic computer literacy and a bit more advanced expertise is profound. Some, at least, seem to be moving into supplemental part-time teaching. The combination of consumer tech product skills and enterprise revenue models fueled this decade’s explosion of SaaS success stories.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We heard many stories detailing the aftermath of the abrupt transition to virtual work, or the shuttering of programs entirely, beginning in spring 2020. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Nonprofit Success Stories. Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. These licenses are perpetual, meaning they never expire.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If the point of the Discovery Center is to teach students the facts of the Grenada invasion, it's reasonable to create a program in which there's a right and wrong answer about what happened in history. This time, the onscreen actors and educator don't say "good job" or reward the students for their desire to avoid invasion.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ll teach you how to make a viz with Tableau that provides uniquely personal insights with an easy to understand interface, step-by-step. You’ve made an amazing viz that tells the story of your year and found insights that matter to you. Build Your Data Skills with the Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. You did it!

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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. Tell a Story. What Nonprofits Can Learn from Gentle Carousel.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ll teach you how to make a viz with Tableau that provides uniquely personal insights with an easy to understand interface, step-by-step. You’ve made an amazing viz that tells the story of your year and found insights that matter to you. Build Your Data Skills with the Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. You did it!

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