Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The odd thing about living through a technological revolution is you think it’s just another Tuesday. These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. The hype is problematic, but the revolution is real. But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 We didn’t ask.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The outcomes you can achieve tend to fall into four buckets that benefit your organization. By sending messages at the right time to the right people, you’ll see upticks in open and click-through rates because they are receiving relevant content that they care about. Or do you have to go through a long process to get the answers?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program. For those individuals, gaining access to the HDL’s image files?in only files?is

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

For example, if your after-school club has a donor who is passionate about childhood literacy, they may want to volunteer to read to the kids one afternoon. Newer donor relationships, however, benefit from more educational content about the history of your organization and its work. Respect their engagement level.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether your organization promotes literacy, shelters animals, or impacts another worthy cause, recurring donations have the power to increase your funds so long as you take a smart approach to optimizing your program. One of the core benefits of a recurring gift program is that it makes supporting your cause easy for donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

However, the time has come when we need a really smart attorney to join Benetech and help us navigate the intersection of technology and social good. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. What’s next?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. As distance learning becomes more common, the long-term benefits of Tabshoura are incredible. Technology That Maximizes Donor Impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech Truths 1 We are committed to social change through technology. Benetech is a Silicon Valley nonprofit organization developing innovative technology solutions with a primary goal of positive social change rather than profit. Our users are the primary drivers of our technology development. 2 We get stuff done.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some folks call newly developed knowledge "intellectual property," but this obscures the fact that we don't treat ideas and content the same way as we treat a house or land. I live in Silicon Valley, a place that exists to drive creation of new and exciting technology. What about literacy and education?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Technology, and more! Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Indirect Content. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. Schoemaker.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Can your theory of change be hard coded into what your social benefit organization builds? Do we need more user generated content? We landed on the possible solution of leveling up the concept of online literacy. I proposed a panel for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. How can nonprofits create change online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The Wisdom 2.0 Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. All eligible submissions will be judged on the combined demonstrated impact: (a) Use of technology. b) Content.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. All eligible submissions will be judged on the combined demonstrated impact: (a) Use of technology. b) Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

As the Internet changed dramatically with the launch of the Web, the content of my work did too -- although the themes and concepts remained the same. The drawing is from one of the many, many technology training workshops I did in those early web1.0 And, now mid-2000 this has changed again. into gaining web social (networking) skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. I said, "You write it. You tell your story."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

” Pew interviewed technology experts and scholars (including me) about the benefits and drawbacks of our digital lives. Digital technology has a positive impact on aspects of life – family, work, and play. Content distributors must stop asserting that they are merely platforms. … 11, 2017, and Jan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. BEACON for Adult Literacy’s peer-to-peer page draws users in with a branded banner image showcasing what this event is and the core mission—adult literacy. The fundraiser leaderboard and thermometer are testaments to the success of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

That’s why most mission-driven organizations can benefit from creating a unified data strategy that will keep you focused on your goals. Key components of data governance The people, processes, and technology are at the center of your entire data strategy. The systems and tools that both produce and use data just keep on multiplying.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

For years, our extraordinary cohort of dedicated volunteer scanners has provided Bookshare with most of its new content. This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. The accelerating rate of technological change suggests that we have no way of determining what comes next on a ten-, twenty-, or fifty-year timescale.

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