Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We began to unpack the challenges and obligations of developing ethical creative in a roundtable discussion with our friends Amirio Freeman of Feeding America and Rosa Del Angel of Oxfam America. A campaign might feature video content from field staff, a featured supporter, or a celebrity advocate. Honest, human language matters.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Natural language processing to automatically recognize and classify the intent behind a member’s question or request. That’s because, like ChatGPT, Salesforce’s assistant will make use of Natural Language Processing. At fusionSpan, we’ve been supporting non-profits to take full advantage of this.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Identify Your Own Story What ignites your passion for an issue? Conduct stakeholder interviews, run focus groups, send out supporter surveys, and look for patterns in your comments on social media, or comments on news articles related to your issue area. Throughout your messaging, avoid passive language.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. We, too, are working hard to expand Bookshare into more geographies and languages. Spanish publishing is one of the hottest digital battlegrounds.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This will be the key to creating content that resonates with them. The struggle you’re addressing is likely heavy; after all, your nonprofit exists to fight it, which means it’s a serious issue. Humor makes challenging or sensitive topics easier to digest. Use descriptive language. .

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. As well-intentioned as content may be, when done wrong it can disempower, objectify, or misrepresent those we intend to serve. The good news? Captions .

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Sprucing up the landing page : Because overloading the audience is an invitation to click away, they made the site less complicated, more attractive, and easier to navigate with only enough content to keep up interest in the registration process. They must deeply understand what drives people to be interested in their mission.

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Candid

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But, if you have trouble getting to it, it can severely limit the impact of the content. To better deliver on our mission, and help you more easily find articles on foundation transparency, we have consolidated our funders’ content from Transparency Talk, the former GlassPockets blog, into Candid’s Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Before the workshop begins, I will greet wheel chair users or participants who have mobility challenges and explain that there will be some moving around and find out what they are comfortable doing. Making accommodations comes down to respectful language and accommodations that require observing and checking in with participants.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover common reasons your website may need a revamp, including: Your content is out of date. Your content is out of date. When your nonprofit’s website content is out of date, your audience won’t be able to find the information they need to get involved. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

I have previously written about the top issues addressed by the Treaty , but to recap, the Treaty is a wonderful instrument because it requires exceptions for people who are blind or have other print disabilities in national copyright laws. We hope that many other countries will follow India’s ratification.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 16, 2023

The good news is that there are alternative solutions that can help you address specific issues or objectives without the need for a complete website overhaul. Specific Problem Solving: The main issue your nonprofit is trying to address may be very focused, such as improving fundraising or boosting membership conversion rates.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 4, 2021

So, while they get support in good times, they’re not seen as essential in more challenging seasons. And while Vitamin-like organizations are known to have a very positive impact over time, they’re not seen as solving issues of urgent need. They aren’t positioning themselves as a solution to a burning problem. A vitamin won’t help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Consider the issues with printed books. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. It made me who I am. I’m a big fan of the printed book and always have been.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. We have encountered a number of challenges over the years.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

Rebuttal : While it is true that GPT models can reflect and perpetuate biases present in the data used to train them, there are approaches that can be taken to mitigate this issue. Because these models can be complex and difficult to interpret, it can be challenging to understand how they generate their text. Tools like GPTzero.me

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In its tenth year, we are still tackling core issues that afflict most of the developing world. For example: AguaClara is working on the issue of clean drinking water that is cost-effective and scaleable. Universal Subtitles solves the problem of bridging video content that is in different languages to users around the world.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

AND so important to budget challenged nonprofit organizations – it saves all the cost of paying for everyone to travel to be together. Clearly you are missing out on a lot of body language and other non-verbal cues. Building rapport with people online is one of the things people often mention as a challenge in online meetings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We started out by listening and found many people asking questions about us or our issues. For instance, in using our content management systems’ Facebook API for our last action alert, we garnered over 1,000 new email addresses from Facebook. Yes – but it is challenging. What is on your To Do List for 2011?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The challenge is grabbing your visitor’s attention. Something in the photos and the language on the page pulled me in and made me care. A person who received services telling how the organization helped them overcome a challenge is even better. You want your graphics to help visitors quickly understand the issue.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Before I start, it is best to issue a few disclaimers: I am not a neuroscientist; this blog post is not written with appropriate scientific method. But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

Be sure to speak the “language”. One of the biggest challenges I found in my transitions between for-profit and nonprofit employment was translating how I talked about my work and achievements. Measuring impact has more to do with building awareness in issue areas and the larger public conversation. Do you enjoy writing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

It gives me feedback on the content, plus it help me generate content. How do we motivate musicians to create content? This can be sensitive issue for some orchestras at particular times. Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

In this sound bite culture, social justice organizations must carve out nuanced positions on complex social issues, from racial and gender equity to immigration reform. MiACLU is a new entry point – amplified by ethnic media and personalized through community outreach—to engage this population on the key issues that affect them.

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Everyaction

MAY 2, 2018

For EDs and other staff who are closely involved in the day-to-day efforts and operations of a nonprofit, it is often easy to see the challenges your organization is facing and understand the solutions necessary to address them. When presenting for your board members, speak in their language. Frame it as part of your strategic plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Together they discussed their personal challenges and accomplishments as leaders in their fields.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2011

A competition that challenges students from all corners of the globe to develop technological solutions to social problems. Translating software to help indigenous peoples connect with others while preserving their language and culture. They are all initiatives of Microsoft Citizenship.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

Many nonprofits who are going through a website redesign on a tight budget want to know the best ways to find and hire a web vendor, especially ones that will understand their goals and challenges. In your initial conversations about the aesthetic you’re after, does the agency staff communicate in language that you can understand?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Navigating the complexities of year-end fundraising for nonprofits can often feel like threading through a maze of challenges. By honing in on outcome language – what you alone can do because of the unique impact you make in this world – donors will naturally gravitate toward giving. But fret not – this is where our guide comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

To augment efforts to increase the amount of Arabic-language content online by making it easier to use and read Arabic online. She noted that the sector was not as developed due to lack of training, language, and resources. There is a huge language barrier because a lot of training materials are in English.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Before we begin, let’s look at the major components within a case statement and the challenges within each component. After your nonprofit’s importance is both communicated and understood, the linked challenge is generating support for your campaign. ?. What is our approach to solving this problem and issue? Be Definitive.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. Is it helping people learn solutions to a social issue? Did it increase our organization’s awareness?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. This session will get serious about the challenges faced by business and program leaders who are expanding their work beyond the U.S. We’ve asked a few of our global network partners to be on hand to provide their take on the issues. No technology demos.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. Share your organization’s mission, who you serve, the influence your organization has on its audience(s), and the role it plays in the larger conversation around your issue area. allows it to stand out in the larger conversation in our issue area?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language.

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