Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course, accessibility is right up Benetech’s alley and the focus of our Literacy program. Today I’m delighted to share the exciting news about the new award we just received from OSEP to build upon Bookshare’s success and significantly improve access for students with disabilities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . .

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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. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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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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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

JUNE 12, 2014

It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. This fair use victory is crucial not only for our present work, but also for our social mission at large and for the future of our work under our Global Literacy program. For those individuals, gaining access to the HDL’s image files?in only files?is

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Our winners represent a little glamour from the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, plus some creativity from Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Manifesting beautiful content is easy with Adobe!! Our third place, bronze prize goes to Literacy Services of Wisconsin (LSW).

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

They’ll share your content. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. Many will give to your Giving Tuesday and year-end campaigns in addition to their monthly gifts. They’ll come to your signature event and maybe even volunteer to clean up afterward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

if you don't agree with the content, mark your objections in the discussion area or underneath of the disagreeable topic with your opinion. Dave Cormier has been my critical friend as I write personal reflections on the community as curriculum process we're using to develop the content through the WeAreMedia Project. experience???

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Kris Rutledge is the Editor, a contributor and a content manager for CausePlanet.org , a thriving professional development website for nonprofit executives, featuring Page to Practice™ book summaries, articles and training. Rutledge also enjoys freelance editing for nonprofit organizations in her spare time.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

An effective email newsletter can help you promote events, fundraising campaigns, and your content. We're constantly figuring out new ways to package our newsletter content. what kind of people intern (high school students), and gives appreciation for their work. Help people learn through tips, how-tos, and content.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

More Content Every Second. Countless usability tests have shown that users don’t consume digital content the same way they consume printed content. American Literacy is Iffy. Despite the challenges you face as a content creator, there are some quick ways to improve your words and set your nonprofit apart from the herd.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself.

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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. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I think, not only in terms of digital literacy…but some people don’t have laptops with cameras, or they only kind of know how to use their smartphone, or maybe they don’t have access to the physical hardware at all to do some of this stuff. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. Do mashups and the notion of content remix finally fulfill the promises once made by proponents of learning objects?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. Emphasis is on digital literacy. The core thrust: high performance computing, data visualization, virtual organizations, and learning and work force development.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

Say you’re writing an appeal that will support your summer literacy program: Imagine a character that’s similar to people who have donated to that cause in the past. This can mean both the content and the format! What motivated them to give last time? What might motivate them to give now? What would they want to read?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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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. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

The Science Center World Congress looked standard in makeup--keynotes, plenaries, parallel panels--and yet the content was made distinctly different by the people involved. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Unfortunately, safeguarding human rights information can’t be distinguished from piracy, if the contents are encrypted.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A high school or college student who’s looking for experience in digital marketing could be a great candidate. While content creation is an ongoing practice, its results account can account for numerous “passive” successes. If no one on staff has the time or resources to develop a blog, see if you can find a volunteer to do so.

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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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