Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe in the power of books to change the world. 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. Consider the issues with printed books. First, they are place-based. We can do better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Interested in games for learning and social change. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Issues: What is our assurance of quality of the game? Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? How do you measure the change? We need metrics!

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. English is increasingly favored as a second language. The organization promotes ASEAN awareness through language training, mass media, and youth exchange activities (such as volunteer programs and youth camps).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Direct Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I immediately saw the potential of being able to connect to my friends and family across distances and being able to read news and research in my other languages and from different perspectives than the media in the US provided. I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. The tools of Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. A changing social media environment is going to drive changes in strategies and tactics. Social media will continue to be a channel for both engagement and giving. Time is up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

He mentioned that they will be sharing the work process and issues around adoption of social media. Struggled with issues around staffing, privacy, control, etc. How do increase internet literacy with communities? What type of language should i use? Organizations are changing. The cultural gap isn't changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. As someone who has been a trainer for all these years, one of the things we're trained to do is "read the room." You watch for body language to indicate the level of engagement and whether or not people agree or disagree and encourage them to participate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. The blog’s vibrant design and vivid language warmly invite readers into Rani’s narrative. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. I had an amazing opportunity to cover the civil war, but also to cover a lot of the human rights issues that were emerging as a result of the war.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

How do you overcome institutional resistance to change and uncertainty to do something wild and hopeful? When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. These transactions will make change possible.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Fashion Show Hold a fashion show that gives local designers and businesses a change to display their latest styles while creating a theme that ties into your cause. These events not only inform and educate; they also inspire positive change. This can work for organizations with missions that aren’t arts-related, too!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

In focusing on those four systems, we recognize institutionally how critical it is to merge the discussion about these various systems and political education to organizing, and how organizing is one method to initiate change for a more just world. It’s actually in three different languages, Chinese, Spanish and English.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

CityCamp organizers set the tone for the day with this definition: "Civic Hacking is the awareness of a condition that is suboptimal in a neighborhood, community, or place and the perception of one's own ability to effect change on that condition. I got a tiny peek at some of those issues during CityCamp.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. 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.

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