Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments). Why this resource? To create change, data must lead to action.

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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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APRIL 23, 2021

In fact, you’ve most likely heard every industry leader teach this until they’re blue in the face! Leap for Literacy. Leap for Literacy added a video about their organization at the top of their landing page. The post How to Show Visual Impact on Your Online Donation Forms appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. Community partners can host classes at their computer labs, collaborate on events or fundraisers, teach workshops, and share or develop resources. The post Client Spotlight: Byte Back appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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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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APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy. A well bred llama can compete with mules in load capacity without damaging this fragile and beautiful mountain ecosystem. Training in breeding is part of the program. The Llama Pack Project does more than provide income.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

The title slide - "Teaching to Transform" should be a second or two longer and then hit me a visual that shows "transformation" -- maybe a bored student and then an engaged one. The point that blogging builds literacy - you show me a bunch of photos of kids at computers and a screenshot of the Starbucks campaign.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Are you keeping up with your blog or e-newsletter? . website views, blog views, email and social media opens and clicks; action conversions; shares) and develop systems to make data-based strategies part and parcel of your strategic, always-developing fundraising program. . Is your website mobile responsive? . Personalization? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I have three go-to resources for graphing data in Excel: Stephanie Evergreen’s blog about intentional data visualization, Cole Nussbaumer’s blog about storytelling with data, and Naomi Robbins’ blog about effective graphs. Don’t waste your time. Excel contains hundreds of time-saving tricks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc. At least for artists/arts educators.

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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. Microsoft Corporate Citizenship Blog. More Resources. Microsoft YouthSpark Hub. century tech or business skills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches Blog Tell me about your background? The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s Why did you start Langwitches blog? I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. This Blog is an experiment.

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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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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Local gardening experts can have the chance to demonstrate their green thumb and teach others in workshops that cover topics such as organic gardening, composting, or urban gardening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

Michele Martin has graciously agreed to lead the charge and created this widget (Thanks Michele) Not only that she invited her blog community to participate. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember that my family and I sponsor a college student, Leng Sopharath, with the help of many of you. s poorest families.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

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. Learn more about each of these organizations on the Box blog. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. If you make media with your kids, believe me you'll learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

We have an opportunity to receive a couple of OLPCs for our literacy program at our farming project (we school the kids of farmers who we train to farm the land, sell vegetables, proceeds go into micro loan fund.).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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. Check out a previous blog I wrote on easyLearning and what it has to offer. Enroll in Online Courses from easyLearning.

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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. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. This blog is excerpted from the book, Nonprofit Board Service for the GENIUS , written by Susan Schaefer and Bob Wittig. . Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ??? Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. Maybe the most important part of the of a course like this are the community literacies that are accumulated through a community enquiry into new material. educational technology and the adult learner."

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AUGUST 12, 2021

This was initially a struggle, as the lack of face-to-face interaction makes it much harder to teach concepts and learn about a new role. In the past year, training and onboarding shifted online due to the move to remote work. Courses that are recommended based on your learners and past data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. That’s why I invited Robin Good to skype into my session.

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JULY 18, 2013

Throughout the day, well be living blogging sessions from MCON13 , a conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. We''re attending virtually through the livestream.

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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. According to this blog post from ChurchMag, "a Facebook and Twitter post gets shared more with an image than without, 2.5x and 2x, respectively." Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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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. I'm paraphrasing. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is? How will you share the information?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can subscribe to her blog here. This August they will co-teach a workshop on memoir, “The World Outside-The World Within, Living and Writing Your Story," at the Leaven Center in Lyons, MI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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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. The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. x (Total Retweets).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2005

I found some excellent lesson plans where the emphasis is on integrating typing into learning, early literacy skills. The teaching aids or props are lots of fun too! "Pre-keyboarding" lessons will often use an alpha smarts, emphasize good posture, and is integrated with learning abcs or letter recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. That the old metrics aren't working.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Abby Rosenheck: Well actually on our blog we have a pretty good list of those resources.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Establish and monitor relevant key performance indicators.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact. Set and execute strategy (level appropriate). Create and communicate clarity. Establish and monitor relevant key performance indicators.

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