Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
For veterans with visual impairments, traumatic brain injuries or other disabilities, reading standard print is difficult, if not impossible. For them, Bookshare —Benetech’s Global Literacy initiative and the world’s largest accessible digital library for people with print disabilities—opens up a lifeline to reading.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. This helps improve memory and synthesis.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 23, 2012
The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 23, 2012
NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? Lately, I have been working in far flung places which means long, very long airplane rides [.]
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
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. Lee Rainie from the Pew Research Center, gave a talk and shared some stats on “ Our Digital Life: What the Research Shows.”
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
So, the real question is - if you have both of these types of tasks to accomplish- they take different approaches, probably use different sides of your brain, etc. Can we expect that down the road five or ten years that we might have "social literacies, skills, and competencies" at the nonprofit staff level?
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