Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc. At least for artists/arts educators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

See these examples of what nonprofits can do with Box. Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. How Does It Work? spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

For example, Harry showed me a few keyboard shortcuts that I didn't know. Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. He encourages staff to listen on many different channels and to blog what they learn in order to share with members. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Throughout the day, well be living blogging sessions from MCON13 , a conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. We''re attending virtually through the livestream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ??? Take for example this summary of the first module. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. Maybe the most important part of the of a course like this are the community literacies that are accumulated through a community enquiry into new material.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. According to this blog post from ChurchMag, "a Facebook and Twitter post gets shared more with an image than without, 2.5x and 2x, respectively." Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I guess you could say it is an example of in-bound marketing. The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. Example : Lets say 20 people on the list below retweet the article (more on how to make this happen a little later).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2005

I found some excellent lesson plans where the emphasis is on integrating typing into learning, early literacy skills. The teaching aids or props are lots of fun too! One example had a family - the clicker family. You can use character gloves where each finger of the glove is a character puppet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. We need to lead by example for our teams to show them that it's ok to fail and fall down, because we've done it ourselves. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Successful leaders : Teach, coach, mentor, and inspire. We need to lead by example for our teams to show them that it's ok to fail and fall down, because we've done it ourselves. Teaching should be used judiciously to ensure it's done in the right moments, supports the goals of the business, and is grounded in fact.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, instead of using sheets of paper to track bids at a silent auction, users could enter their bids on a tablet or via an app on their phone. If you want to learn a bit more about hosting a silent auction, check out our blog post on the eight steps to running a stellar event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

At Common Sense Media , we believe that treating others’ information carefully, and teaching others to do the same, is a key factor in building and maintaining trust. We guide parents through raising kids in this digital age, and provide digital literacy curriculum to educators at no cost. Privacy across the board. A YouTube channel?

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2015

These days, people often share images that communicate a wealth of nuanced information (rather than relying on words), and visual literacy is becoming a requirement. The above image shows an example of Meggan reworking a newsletter layout: on the left is her first effort; on the right is the final product. The future is a visual one.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request.

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