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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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How Nimble AMS empowers your stakeholders to become innovators

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In Tableau’s Building Data Literacy Guide , 80% of employees report they’d stay in their job if they were trained in technology. Prioritizing data literacy will empower your staff as innovators, helping staff to enact lasting change at your association. . Routine training is key to better skilled and more productive employees.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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How to Show Visual Impact on Your Online Donation Forms

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At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. While load times typically aren’t an issue with desktop devices, the majority of your donors are on a mobile device with suboptimal connections to the internet. Leap for Literacy.

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New to TechSoup: Reading Eggs Online Educational Program

Tech Soup

Reading Eggs is ideal for organizations that work with literacy among children and want to motivate them through games. A team of education professionals developed the 120-lesson curriculum to help students with reading as well as with phonics, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. mobile elearning' How Does It Work?

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Digital Strategy

Bloomerang

Is your website mobile responsive? . As you make new hires and consider ongoing employee development, keep in mind that data literacy skills will be foundational to every role at every level of an organization in 2021 and beyond and will critically shape who survives and thrives as leaders going forward. .

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