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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken. But what about everybody else?

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Net Smart: How To Thrive Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. Some points that particularly resonated and that I have been working on myself are: Mindfulness is about becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offline.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

Press Releases : AI writers can help nonprofits create attention-grabbing press releases that generate media coverage and raise awareness of their cause. We did this with George, and then he interviewed the AI version of himself , we think it scared him. Build large training guides on a given topic.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. I said, "You write it.

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Technology in the Arts Conference:Funding Technology Projects

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I interviewed Christopher J. " Be aware of vendor-driven solutions. Technology literacy is important and in order gain literacy you need get people to put fingers to keyboard. The session was called "Funding Technology Projects" and was moderated by Jeff Forster. It includes two funders, Doreen E.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What I mean is that I am focuses more on some inner awareness of when I’m just mindlessly browsing information or staring at the screen.

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