Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. Making content accessible for the blind has been a traditional example of fair use. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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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. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. But what about everybody else?

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Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” Digital Traditional Exclusive access to special content that is not available to the general public can help show value and make recurring donors feel appreciated.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Channels such as social media can really help with this.

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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. Plus, we wanted to share all the winners in one video, created with Adobe Voice, a free tool from Adobe. Please visit the site to view this video).

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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. The next month, send them a short video showing your nonprofit in action. Many will give to your Giving Tuesday and year-end campaigns in addition to their monthly gifts.

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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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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. Curated Content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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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

Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth. What will the future 2020 be like? Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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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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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. And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. Does that make sense?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. Portland, Oregon: Lights, Camera, Action: Making Video Easy. Tuesday, September 1, 2015.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, on one hand, involuntary reliance on video platforms and social media paid new dividends in accessibility for volunteers and clients. But then, once the marketing manager left, our Spanish language staff were like, “Yeah, we actually want different content , not just translated content. ”. Geography and Transportation. “In-person

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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. Want to learn more? spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Have also worked a lot in video because stories need a visual medium. 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? A Different Kind of Story.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

More Content Every Second. 1 million hours of YouTube videos are watched. Countless usability tests have shown that users don’t consume digital content the same way they consume printed content. American Literacy is Iffy. And as you know, the Internet is expanding at a breakneck pace. 456,000 tweets are tweeted.

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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. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com. I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. If you’re courageous and know your content backwards, display the back channel on a screen that everyone (including you) can see. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. Let’s say your nonprofit focuses on promoting literacy and discovers that many of your donors are older teachers and parents in your community.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Images, videos, and infographics are your allies in creating a compelling story. Break up your content into shorter chunks to encourage readers to stay engaged. Their campaign page includes a high-quality video that is heartwarming and irresistible. Content Hierarchy: Ensure your content hierarchy remains clear and logical.

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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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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

These are: Event Registration Bidding Software Text Fundraising Livestreaming Platforms Volunteer and Staff Management Online Shop Video Editing Software Graphics Software Event Day Solution Liability Waivers. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. Texting During Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

As the Internet changed dramatically with the launch of the Web, the content of my work did too -- although the themes and concepts remained the same. That's partly about personality, and partly about offering a choice of audio, video, text and so on. And, now mid-2000 this has changed again.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. compared to posts that weren’t promoted.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If your organization promotes literacy, partner with a bookstore. Make a short video with a person who received services and is excited to share their experience. Call and thank your best donors or send them a thank-you video. Focus on grant prospecting, collecting stories, and creating content. December: This is it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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