Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2014

Bringing mobile devices into adult library programs can be an excellent way to promote library e-media and teach digital literacy skills. Eastern) for Adult Library Programs Gone Mobile , where you can learn how libraries can help meet the need and demand for mobile-device assistance through creative programming.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is a big news item in NPTech and global digital inclusion news. The program aims to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones to bring the 4 billion souls on earth who don't yet have Internet to the information age — or is it? The Opportunity. Connectivity Is a Human Right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2013

5: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #IntLiteracyDay or #LiteracyDay. Facebook Fundraising Google Plus LinkedIn Mobile Media Social Media Twitter YouTube' 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. September.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

28: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. Based upon the survey results of 6,057 donors worldwide, the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. 14: V-Day — #1BillionRising.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

One thing experts agree on is that the digital divide has far-reaching consequences at the individual, community, and. As part of our i3 Internet Inclusion Initiative , Mobile Beacon has launched a new partnership with EveryoneOn , a. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. national level. The best part?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It seemed just another Tuesday—just Apple’s version of a mobile phone that not everyone had or even wanted. These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

Digital Strategy is my passion, but less from the perspective of technology implementation and more from the perspective of embedding digital knowledge and literacy throughout an organization. What is a digital strategy? To some, digital strategy is simply social media and a website. The answer is simple.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

17: Digital Learning Day — #DLDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 13: World Radio Day — #WorldRadioDay. September.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. " Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. netsquared digital divide' Want to learn more? spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

One of the big pieces of digital divide news in the U.S. Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. What Is the Digital Divide? The digital divide in the United States has persisted over the years despite the inexorable march of technology. A number of U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Digital peeping toms. But with proper education, Internet users can fight back against these digital creeps. Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. The Drawbacks of Digital Inclusion.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With technology solutions, organizations were able to reach volunteers and clients who lived too far away or had other mobility issues. A focus group participant with an LGBTQ+ youth organization said: [Digital technology] is…really beneficial to reach out to the disabled community. Not all of technology’s effects are so beneficial.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

But while global experts search for solutions to bridge the worsening digital divide for women, it turns out the answers are at our fingertips. It’s time to take a closer look at how we can boost the feminine digital revolution—a revolution that is already underway.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From creating digital learning opportunities and initiatives to protect girls’ mental well-being to securing national funding for education — the Champions we support are driving solutions to girls’ education challenges in their communities. . The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

There it brought teams of Google and LinkedIn employees to contribute code fixes and key feature enhancements to the open source mobile tools of our nonprofit project partner Mifos , whose mission is to enable financial institutions to become modern and digitally connected providers of financial services to the world’s 2.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Hilary is the Digital Fundraising Manager at DNL OmniMedia. Hilary specializes in technology audits, digital fundraising, and technology implementations. What level of technology literacy exists across your team? This information is then used to create a full digital strategy for improving your nonprofit’s technology suite.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let’s start embracing the fact that the next 20 years will bring tremendous digital transformation in the nonprofit sector. While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. Mobile is the New Normal. Mobile is the new normal.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. digital divide than anything I can think of since the invention of the Internet. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Colorado Springs, Colorado: Mobile + Desktop = Universal Apps. Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Atlanta, Georgia: Visual Storytelling: Using Digital Media. Denver, Colorado: Donations on the Go: Mobile Tools to Enhance Giving. Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

You can access it day or night, on your computer at work or on your mobile device. Digital Literacy Resources. Microsoft Digital Literacy has everything from basic computer courses (such as how to operate a computer) to a course on building your first app.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Public libraries are also working diligently to close both the digital and the opportunity gap: from giving free classes on resume-building to providing free access to technology. Gadget instruction is an incredibly important component of digital literacy as more people are accessing the Internet from their mobile devices.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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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. I invite you to check back on our website for ongoing updates about our work.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

Amidst the crowd of attendees representing digital agencies, start-ups, corporations, social entrepreneurs, and more, there was still a slice of the nonprofit technology contingency still holding strong. Many are designed to bring people together to share stories and content, create digital watering holes, and make connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Third Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for St. Third Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. In addition, each person needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating digital information for later retrieval.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

For them, it’s about having reliable and fast Internet access; accessing health care services via mobile in rural areas; voicing views online without fear of persecution, not having useful services blocked by Internet service providers (ISPs), not being exposed to cyberbullying, or fearing to become a victim of online fraud.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. Geoff Livingston talks Decentralized Grass Roots Fundraising in a Digital World. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

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. He talked about how wisdom is being able to manage budha and your mobile device. The benefit of wisdom is freedom of your spirit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Let’s start by surveying the digital landscape. The mobile web, of course. Countless usability tests have shown that users don’t consume digital content the same way they consume printed content. American Literacy is Iffy. When setting out to create some digital copy—e.g., What You’re Up Against.

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