Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

Tunisia is very interesting this week! I gave my talk here on Tuesday, entitled: Building a Global Library for People with Print Disabilities. It went well: many passionate and interesting people from the disabilities movement are here and we are definitely brainstorming ways to join our efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The 5K Visual Browser is one tool that help you see connections between the people you interact with on Twitter. One efficient technique is to spend five minutes of your day at the end reflecting. What if you used that five minutes of reflection, to visualize and understand your network?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. Effective training is not about stuffing content down people’s throats, but giving them an opportunity to digest it. Walking Debrief.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Trusted partners in India (like NAB or affiliated organizations) provide the main support interface to people with print disabilities in India, including subscription payments (likely to be much lower in India), proof of disability and customer service. and people start getting access to English language books in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

Julian’s take on the coverage: To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Azzam’s software and hard project allows people with quadriplegia, those who do not have use of their hands and arms, to use a computer. You have to opt out of it, but most people give because many in Jordan have been touched by cancer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice. The session after lunch is always difficult because energy drops and people are tired. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. explains the how and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It was very exciting to finally meet people on the In-Country Leadership Teams face-to-face. I was also impressed by the energy in a room with twenty people who have a networked mindset, leadership skills, and social media expertise. Interest in people. Points of connection included: -Training. Nerds, Geeks, and Hackers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. I will long remember the images of so many people feverishly using their handhelds to discuss the death of Osama bin Laden in social media spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

" Registering people to vote, so long as you allow anyone to register for any party and do not advocate for specific voting actions, is not outside your 501c3 status. This is an effort that eight states are spearheading with Pew’s support."

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MAY 3, 2022

Through a global network operating in nine countries across the MENA region, EFE trains young people with the skills necessary to succeed in work and life and then matches the next generation of ready-to-work talent with businesses in need of qualified employees. . From Spreadsheets to Salesforce.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Her vision to create an opportunity for these young people share their authentic voice about their work. All in all, an inspiring start to the WomenWhoTech Summit 2012.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Walking into the medina, the old part of Tunis, I suddenly acquired very friendly people from Tunisia speaking good English (which is unusual, since English is about language number six in usefulness in Tunisia, after Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish and German). People are looking at me: how could you get Abdul yelling at you?

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