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 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. I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of ”data literacy” lately.

Data 100

Data Change Boston Literacy 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2012

But they have also made data literacy an essential competency for everyone in the organization. The result is a shift from ad hoc data analysis and simple (though detailed) record-keeping to a systematic approach to improving their programs and campaigns by using data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years.

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Burma Analysis Guatemala Law 168

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. The ultimate purpose of data analysis and evaluation is to share findings with other leaders at your organization and use that information to make adjustments and improvements.

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Data Tutorial Chart Statistics 139

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this guide, DNL OmniMedia will cover the ins and outs of conducting a nonprofit technology assessment from start to finish through the following points: Preparing for the Assessment Conducting a Technology Assessment Step 1: Discovery Step 2: Analysis and Strategy Step 3: Documentation Step 4: Review.

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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. Data Scientist” is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter.

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Measure Roles Support Literacy 99

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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Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Measure Impact Chicago Metrics 96

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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Network Work System Teen 110

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

An example of this comes from a 100-year-old social service agency that had offered mental health counseling for their constituents among several other programs including financial literacy, job training and a daycare program. However, counseling also was considered a low-impact program. This led to poor outcomes.

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Map Profit Impact Literacy 28

Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. In this post Madeleine Clark, an AidData Summer Fellow, talks about the need for open data programs to be responsive to citizens needs.

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Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Africa Data 52

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Nairobi, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Women and Web Literacy Program 2016 – 17. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Monday, November 7, 2016. Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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Netsquared Benin San Francisco United Kingdom 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Christine Martell from VisualSpeak blog created a screencast with a delightful analysis of the photographs used to describe the campaign. I never realized this before, but one of the photos I took at the Khmer Literacy School has someone's butt in the background.

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Giving Screencast Children Cambodia 72

Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

For example, if you ran a literacy organization and you had a blog post about how one of your former beneficiaries just became the poet laureate for a nearby city, that would be an excellent candidate. The literacy nonprofit talked about above might name their recurring donors their “Bookworm Brigade.”

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Newsletter Ideas Support Literacy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Emphasis is on digital literacy. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them. Microsoft Corporation. Interested in games for learning and social change. Program is world-wide.

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Game Change Metrics Learning Environment 50

NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? It should also provide tools for flexible, customized data analysis. Gather staff at all levels to understand, cooperatively, your organization's key outcomes, indicators, and performance targets.

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System Management Evaluation Demographics 40

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

As Mira explained: The goal is for students to experience presidential decision making, and then debrief, discuss, and share, utilizing historical and civic literacy skills. The buzzer is meant to show whether or not you made the same choice as Reagan--not whether or not there was a right or wrong choice made.

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Grenada Student History Library 48

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

PDFs are great for preserving the final format of a document, but they are nearly useless for any kind of robust analysis. Oakland currently has more than 30,000 PDFs on its website, which means a lot of data still isn't available in a format that is easy to extract and use for additional analysis.

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Oakland PDF Literacy Government 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

He is the CEO of Benetech, which concentrates on applying technology to challenging problems facing our society, including literacy for people with disabilities and human rights monitoring and analysis.

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eBook Copyright China Law 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again. Ethan Zuckerman recently did an analysis of tweets from Moldova and found this to be true. He discusses the high price of hyperconnectivity for individuals AND for organizations.

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Moldova Australia Knowledge Leadership 94

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

Work cross-functionally with the different people who will use data at your organization to ensure analysis is done properly, preventing any misuse or misrepresentation of the facts down the road. Establishing standard processes for how to input and handle data should be a high-priority outcome of any data governance framework.

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Data Strategy Literacy Government 63

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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