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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

Tech Soup

The company realized that simply raising awareness wasn't actually solving the problem. 11,000 were laptops. eCycle Best concluded that American consumers seem to be getting wiser about throwing away phones, tablets, and laptops. The report examined how mobile devices are making an impact on literacy in developing countries.

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. 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. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). "Mobile computing has boomed, and usability has improved to the point where tablets will start replacing laptops as the mobile computing device of choice.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. " Media literacy is a paradigm shift - not an add-in subject. It starts in the home. Parents are facing challenges.

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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our missions are diverse, yet we have the common goal of raising awareness of the work we’re doing. Along with that goal is an obligation to raise awareness of the ways in which we’re using the data provided to us by our fans and friends. Our core policy priority is kids’ mobile and online privacy.

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