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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

@ kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/. I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. p/QTTfRJlZjl/. p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Mayrie was a Bookshare member, volunteer and staff person, who contributed hundreds of books to the Bookshare collection and provided invaluable guidance to our volunteer crew for many years. She said her primary motivation when starting out with Bookshare was to help provide timely books for young adult and teen readers.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. " New Heights Educational Group.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fine writes about in her book Momentum. The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. " This point really resonates with what Allison H.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. Media isn't just happening to kids.

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