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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

Tech Soup

To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. As always, I'll also cover other mobile news and trends. American Mobile Phone Recycling on the Rise. 11,000 were laptops. The report examined how mobile devices are making an impact on literacy in developing countries.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

With technology solutions, organizations were able to reach volunteers and clients who lived too far away or had other mobility issues. Unfortunately, a lot of people who are disabled are not able to access our services in the same way because they either have a lack of mobility [or] lack of transportation.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

A mobile library was set up with Wi-Fi and computer access, staffed by people trained in social services, disaster relief, healthcare services, job services, and more. 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.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

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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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. 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. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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How to Write Effective Web Copy (Part 1): Make It Readable

Connection Cafe

The mobile web, of course. American Literacy is Iffy. Reading on screens (laptops and smartphones) is such a unique user experience that the “how” becomes almost as important as the “what.” When the study was conducted again in 2015, it had plummeted to eight seconds. The average American adult reads at an 8th-grade level.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social 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 literacy is a paradigm shift - not an add-in subject. It starts in the home. Parents are facing challenges.

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