Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I first became interested in the topic after reading David Shenk’s “ Data Smog ” in 1998 using the metaphor of environmental problems to talk about the dangers of having too much online information, primarily email. The problem of “information overload” is nothing new and has been around for centuries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Generative AI—which is capable of producing content in response to prompts—provides fundraisers with exciting new opportunities to personalize their constituent experience and redesign workflows and jobs. We’ll discuss the importance of understanding when to use AI and how to get comfortable testing AI in various scenarios.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Before identifying which menu approach is appropriate, make sure your team is aligned on overall goals, audiences, and content needs. Business goals : What problem are you trying to solve? data literacy, device preferences)? Content: What content (e.g., Content: What content (e.g., A dropdown menu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

We solve social problems that otherwise would not be solved. We are a nonprofit technology company serving the unserved, tackling important challenges that the private sector cannot by developing content, products and services to effect social change. 3 We do the right stuff right. We value professionalism, dedication and service.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. Manage geographically dispersed staff and beneficiaries by creating folder structures with content specific to regional offices. It has integrated Box content with its Salesforce implementation.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

Digital Strategy is my passion, but less from the perspective of technology implementation and more from the perspective of embedding digital knowledge and literacy throughout an organization. To others, it is all-encompassing—software, hardware, networking, content, social media, SEO, SEM, and a website. The answer is simple.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One deeply entrenched problem that the pandemic laid bare was the difficulty for low-income individuals to access technology, or at least adequate technology. Yes, accessibility and equity in volunteering was a problem even before the pandemic, but as COVID swept across the globe, low-income communities bore the brunt of the consequences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on. Solving real problems.

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BoardAssist

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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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

What is the best mix of content between social networking profiles and main web site page? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? How do increase internet literacy with communities? Before content, you need to know your audience. Where do they access the content? How much staff?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. More here ). *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. Emphasis is on digital literacy. MacArthur Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Wonder creator and problem solver. Sleep problems and stirred up woes. We’ll see more YouTube and Twitch stars testing the thresholds of what their audiences are willing to watch, which means ever more salacious, incendiary content, disturbing images and dangerous behaviors. Work creation enabler and enhancer. Education tool.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Both of these designers presented compelling images and evidence from exhibit work and child development experts about the idea that you can make sophisticated, muted exhibits that help children slow down, focus, and enjoy themselves with interactive content. The researchers don't judge the content of the cues (i.e.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. So we know for a fact the content without context is meaningless. So content without context is meaningless. Does that make sense?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

At a time when a growing number of people are looking for ways to help solve pressing social and environmental problems, Benetech's technology initiatives for people with disabilities, human rights and environmental communities are striking a chord with job seekers. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention. Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted. So, another example of potential collateral damage from SOPA. We do it for human rights groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

We also want to better empower our participants and supporters to spread the word about Entoure by developing content for our social media channels that is unique, exclusive and kick-ass!”. The Women’s Center of Tarrant County has a name problem, as we serve women, men and children…about 82,000 a year. We are NOT a shelter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

For years, our extraordinary cohort of dedicated volunteer scanners has provided Bookshare with most of its new content. This past year, we’re getting most of our content directly from top publishers: high-quality digital content for free.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change.

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