Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

We built a new school building for them - and the school is a literacy program. A volunteer on our board put up this profile over at Changing the Present. We also have a presence at Global Giving which has recently launched a new look for its site. A sort of Headstart program. It prepares the kids to enter the village school.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. Inovo is a global consulting firm that helps purpose-driven leaders with innovative and profitable business models to pursue social change. Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program. copyright law, also known as the Chafee Amendment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Together with the World Blind Union and other campaigners, we set out to get a global treaty that would not only replicate the U.S. And, the U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E. After the presentations all the entrepreneurs in audience set upon each other with their own funding pitches. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. The average user on Facebook shares/creates 90 pieces of content a month. With over 800 million global users on Facebook , if you do the math – that’s a lot of information! That’s less true.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. When raising funds at events in the field, employees use Box on iPads to share videos, PDFs, and presentations with potential donors. Its employees use Box to share digital asset libraries and collaborate with third-party vendors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

It made remember the workshops I taught way back in 1993 for arts people about Internet literacy - the web was just getting started. It's funny looking at these - because they are all about connections, people, transportation metaphors, networks, global, etc. What does the Internet look like ? you would get similar images.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

With over 800 million global users on Facebook, if you do the math – that’s a lot of information! One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload. That’s less true.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Presented in collaboration with African American Development Officers Network (AADO). Engage with more than 1,000 fellow attendees including leadership from marquee foundations, governments, global industries, the U.N., The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Games examples: Identity and social clicks in high school Globalization - Sim game about you could plounder a developing country Panchatantra - a board game. Gaming is literacy. Outside game: Gaming as a global experience. Our responsibility as global citizens.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Here are my slides from the presentation. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. As always, you can also review the speaking notes by downloading the file for your own review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Changing the Present Facebook application offers nearly 1,000 meaningful $1 gifts from hundreds of leading nonprofits, so you're sure to find something that moves you or your sweetheart. A percentage of each (PRODUCT)RED product sold is given to The Global Fund. The money helps women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. How do you incorporate the backchannel in your conference or panel presentations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The opening presentation showed kids talking about how they social media and adults misconceptions.) 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. Very interesting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Now, a day and two thousand miles from the closing ceremony, I realize I was lucky enough to participate in a very special kind of conference, one which deals specifically with the global politics of science centers. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

Climate change is a global, systemic crisis and there are many points of entry.”. Rather than having experts present on why energy efficiency would be good for the community and the environment, they held a series of open houses to allow neighbors to talk to each other. Doing something at the community level feels tangible.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

But what if the goal was to band together to save the world from a real threat—like global warming, AIDS, or mass genocide? McGonigal comments that we need a new kind of serious game: Games that are designed as functions with an end result that is a measurable difference in the present state of reality.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Elsewhere in the session, I was incredibly impressed by: The new Dialogue in Silence exhibition, presented by the same group (Dialogue Social Enterprise) that created the incredibly successful Dialogue in the Dark exhibition. Download my slides here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Benetech's newest project is a software tool called Miradi that helps environmental practitioners design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects to more effectively meet the needs of global biodiversity. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And from everything I can tell, I’ve had a peek at the presentation, you all are in for a treat. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. You can thank marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

They are generally early adopters of new technologies and consider themselves to be global people. He describes the power shift that the cloud presents and it's burden of "always on." I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Unfortunately, mainstream media narratives often work to envelop public perspective on these seminal issues by presenting limited viewpoints and images. Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative (GODI). Videos of presentations can be found on the PDF website. Open Data Applied.

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