Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Blogger’s Choice Award Lastly, there will be a Blogger’s Choice Award of $1,000 (USD). The CTK Foundation will choose a blogger (hopefully Beth) who will hand-pick one winner from any category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

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. Blogger Roger Carr of Everyday Giving Blog has written a beautiful post about the Khmer Literacy School ! Leda, a young child, was abandoned in a local market.

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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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APRIL 22, 2010

Nathaniel Whittemore (the Change.org social entrepreneurship blogger) pitches June Cohen of the TED conference to pull together TEDxVolcano impromptu conference for the next day: Sunday! The airports in the UK closed near the end of the Skoll Forum, and many of us headed off last Saturday for London to ponder our next moves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. In our brief time together Claire mentioned one of the core values at Twitter – “Being a force for good”. Hope140 ’s aim is to do just that. Want to be featured? About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos. Listening and engaging with the long tail - they may not be celebrities or influential bloggers - but when a crisis hits or need people to spread the world - they become activated like an army of volunteers.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Find him on Twitter at @pierrekhawand and on as a guest blogger on the TechSoup Blog. Prior to founding Collaborative Conversations, Ken received his certification in Integral Coaching ® through New Ventures West.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. He talks about the growing importance of informal learning in the connected workplace as well as the importance of sense-making skills, both individually and in networks, as new digital literacy skills.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2005

I have been tapped to write for the BBC website as well as a guest blogger for the Forum. My goals are to talk to people about the causes I am passionate about: literacy, access and human rights. I am heading off to Davos for my third World Economic Forum meeting. Here's my first Forumblog.org post: Packing up.

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JUNE 7, 2016

That’s why we turned to guest blogger Susan Schaefer for fresh ideas on this problem in this week’s guest post. . Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. Make Your Nonprofit Board Meetings Magical.

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JULY 10, 2007

Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. As of this writing, 240 bloggers have registered for the Blogathon and $16,161.91 You can lose weight and bolster literacy at the same time!)" in pledges have been made.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Henry Jenkins , Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. Eric Zimmerman , CEO and founder, gameLab, working to develop new games to support media literacy and design skills in young people

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). I never realized this before, but one of the photos I took at the Khmer Literacy School has someone's butt in the background. I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Earlier in the week, USC Institute for Media Literacy and the Seton Hall School of Law launched a "Virtual Guantanamo" to focus on public policy issues surrounding the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Blogger Rik Riel writes about his harrowing experience as a virtual prisoner there.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. In India, women bloggers are threatened on Twitter with “live-telecasted gang-rape and acid attacks.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Jay Baer is a blogger and social media consultant who has been doing Twitter 20 interview series with social media. Looks like the work would take approximately 3-6 hours (figure out interview questions, conduct the interview, post the transcript) depending on your twitter literacy skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

tools and my outlook on literacy, available information, research, and cross-referencing opinions has changed completely. What advice would you offer other bloggers who are just getting started? See what and how bloggers write. Pay attention to the tools and services other bloggers use and that would work best for your purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. " Media literacy is a paradigm shift - not an add-in subject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

Will work with the instructors or lab volunteers on these areas: Step 1: Identify Useful, High Quality Internet Resources Tech Skills: Internet Search Skills, Information Literacy. " I ended up with blogger because it is free. Also, an example of the two mini-lessons set up as entries in a blog for the students and teachers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. It goes beyond blogger and tagger. And, now mid-2000 this has changed again. Social media coach?

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Tavi Gevinson is an American writer, fashion blogger, and magazine editor. Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences.

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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. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. He discusses the high price of hyperconnectivity for individuals AND for organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

s Khmer Literacy School has provided huge opportunity. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project! Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family???s s income, and this prevents them from attending school.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

For All. -- is all about digital inclusion, digital literacy, and working to close the many digital divides we face in our global society. We hope OneWEbDay can change that and help to build a global constituency of people who care about the health of our 21st century communications environment. This year's theme -- One Web.

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