Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of ”data literacy” lately. I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As a Visiting Scholar, Bernholz will advance the Foundation’s literacy on a range of issues, particularly digital civil society, open data, and social good. com. She is working on her second book, tentatively titled, The Future of Good. She will be working with the Foundation’s multiple grantmaking programs on myriad projects.

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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. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. This individual works with program experts to apply what is learned from the data. But they have also made data literacy an essential competency for everyone in the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. He won the competition and the prize money was use to build the WeAreVisble Site. The content is fantastic — particularly the tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

1,500 for One Hero The CTK Foundation will also be offering a $1,500 (USD) President’s Choice Award (the Susan Lee Winter Grant Award) for an individual working to provide creative and innovative approaches to HIV/AIDS education or prevention.

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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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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. I want to mention a few recent posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Can we expect that down the road five or ten years that we might have "social literacies, skills, and competencies" at the nonprofit staff level? Certainly we have a baseline of digital literacy skills , but what does that mean in web 2.0, social media context?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) If nonprofits (including funders) don’t know how to communicate with them there, they will fail to engage the participation and support they need to do their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Interfaith literacy events and interesting learning opportunities. Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year. Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance. A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. The Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy program helps farm children learn their native alphabet and numbers well enough to attend elementary school. The literacy school runs three sessions a day for 130 children of Roteang village???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

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. How to engage people more deeply and deepen some of the community learning literacies? Community commitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

All campaigns raised thousands of dollars for the nonprofits (100% of proceeds going to the nonprofit) and spread the causes’ messages to millions of people.

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Lesson Twitter Campaign Learning 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening Literacy Skills Whether your nonprofit is using listening tools that are free or a professional tool to take a deeper dive, after you figure out who will do the listening and how to make it actionable , it's time to address the nitty gritty of what and how. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

I've never met Kilong, but we've exchanged emails and I sent khmer alphabet flash cards for their literacy program a few years back. He is very interested in Cambodia and a colleague of Kilong Ung , Cambodian-American who is based on Portland and local leader in the Cambodian community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

While writing the “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” and now teaching workshops on strategy and measurement for networked nonprofits, I realize that knowing how to use excel to set up and automate a dashboard, integrate data from exported from different programs, get insights, and make it visual are basic data literacy skills. And, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. He also suggests that making use of social media and other online tools without getting hit with information overload is the essential secret to success in the 21st century.

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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.). Okay, that's not a huge amount, but I'm the donor! I just got an email from Dr. Hendrie who is in Cambodia right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

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. Blogger Roger Carr of Everyday Giving Blog has written a beautiful post about the Khmer Literacy School ! Leda, a young child, was abandoned in a local market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

information literacy skills? On Google, I would have had to look at the different sources, figure out if they credible - if there were different answers, etc. That would take longer. On Twitter, it's people - my followers who giving me answers and many of whom I know and trust. What does this say about web2.0

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Google Twitter Literacy Skills 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy). Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources). Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

The point that blogging builds literacy - you show me a bunch of photos of kids at computers and a screenshot of the Starbucks campaign. What are you trying say about the connection between blogging and literacy? Change the music or change the transitions so they better match. The visuals are not reinforcing the idea.

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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. Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. Their parents are working on our farm project. A sort of Headstart program. It prepares the kids to enter the village school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? To learn more about listening, check out these resources: Beth Kanter - What is the value of listening to social media channels for your organization? Amy Sample Ward - Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos. Our session covered: Why listening offers value. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Remix Wiki Case Study Literacy 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Nichole Pinkard , Director of Technology and Research Associate, Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago, working to expand after-school media literacy programs. Eric Zimmerman , CEO and founder, gameLab, working to develop new games to support media literacy and design skills in young people

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Foundation Digital Learning Literacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

He talks about the growing importance of informal learning in the connected workplace as well as the importance of sense-making skills, both individually and in networks, as new digital literacy skills.

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Share Reflection Social Media Model 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. Improve staff expertise: It used to be that we could be trained to do our work and we wouldn’t need to update and synthesize new information on a daily basis. That’s less true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Technology literacy is important and in order gain literacy you need get people to put fingers to keyboard. What comes first, technology or change? Chicken and egg. Change for change sake is not good. You need educate people on your board/staff - there will be resistence. They don't have to be experts, but comfortable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

and new technolgies in early literacy development. understanding about techno-literacy practices such as blogging and texting, in. As a parent and a technology trainer, I'm constantly reminded of the importance of scaffolding. in the practice. She told me, "Yours is one of the few blogs I have found which comment on.

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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. What does the Internet look like ? Liz Strauss asks if crayons qualify as social media. I handed them crayons and paper and asked them to draw a picture of the Internet and then share with someone else.

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Social Media Media Remix Slides 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Howard Rheingold - Participatory Media Literacy Wiki Henry Jenkins , MIT Comparative Media Program Director (These photos are from yesterday's session in Second Life with him where I got ask him what he thought of the criticisms about Second Life and I will post the answer and pointer to the audio in a bit.)

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