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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Innovating for Dramatically Greater Scale and Social Impact [VIDEO]

Top Nonprofits

First, I’m making the case for why we need to innovate in the social sector broadly. I have been working in the social change sector for over 30 years and have always been interested in how we can increase our scale and increase our impact. In 2007, we were serving only a few people and then it keeps getting better and better.

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Cause Camp 2021 Speaker Line-Up

NonProfit Hub

Through speaking, training, and consulting, she shows social purpose organizations how to use social media and storytelling to build communities, showcase impact, and advance their causes. Peter has defined the vision, strategy, and culture of 829 Studios since its founding in 2007.

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Bookshare Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary at Google

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007. As a result, we quickly became the largest online library for people with print disabilities.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interested in games for learning and social change. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Social change is a difficult thing to assess. Assessing social change is the same conversation as assessing learning. We need metrics! Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them. Microsoft Corporation. How do you quantify.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

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On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Channels such as social media can really help with this.