Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Content access on the internet is a constant area of fascination to me. Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Hadley's international branch is located in Fuzhou, China.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Published on SANGONeT's content portal, NGOPulse, the organizations profiled range from education, social outreach, poverty relief, environment, and more. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. Community-building/engagement is related to but not identical to content engagement. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. Instead I seek out newer voices on the edge, as well as a few international blogs.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. With over 275 sessions over three days, opportunities for learning were plentiful.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Decatur, Illinois: Storytelling, Planning, and Scheduling Content for Your Nonprofit #Storymakers2017. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: The Content Marketing Blueprint. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I liked the feeling of empowerment and how it can shift you out of your usual way of thinking. The peer coaching exercise allowed participants to work in small groups of three people and take turns being the talker, listener, and witness. Then we opened up for discussion. Peer Self-Assessment and Peer Coaching Exercises.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion."

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Constituent Empowerment. Winner: Children International. Drove list growth and great results, in part through having a newsletter with all of the content being short and snappy and above the fold. Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Winner: KQED.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. We''re working on the internal and external language, always trying to be as clear and concrete as possible. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This mixture was embedded in every aspect from the instructional design – from icebreakers to reflection exercises to presentation content, examples, and frameworks. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. You need that for new ideas, innovation, and fresh thinking.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos. Komen for the Cure race.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. submitted by Matthew Zachary Social media healthcare means a revolution in consumer-driven and patient-focused content delivery. Convergence of Social Health Media With Youth Culture. Do they make a difference?

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

It opened up the question of what roles chefs can play in international development. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. Our culinary school is just one example.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Is social media the domain of a single department, walled off in marketing, communications, or content? If you do go the policy or guidelines route, remember to focus on empowerment rather than rigid restrictions. It's time to make social media something the whole organization can get involved in and excited about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. The winners of the contest, and their entries, are: · Entoure , Sarah Allen. “My

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I actually started out with International Studies, and more academic. Then, the magazine is like a curation of all the best that's out there on our newswire, on our pipeline of content. A woman journalist from Sudan had her story about the flogging of a woman who was wearing pants get picked up, and it made international headlines.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. Instead I seek out newer voices on the edge, as well as a few international blogs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying. Furthermore, open frames enable participants to physically touch exhibited content while demonstrating that the object still deserves special recognition.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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