Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Technology trainers: you're superheroes, but not super human! When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. But it's nearly impossible to know everything about every type of technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For over a decade, she’s brought fundraising strategy & technology together to create successful campaigns. Hilary specializes in technology audits, digital fundraising, and technology implementations. You’ve decided to lead your organization through a technology assessment. With that, let’s get started!

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. Infrastructure stability – with all of your data stored in a data warehouse, it makes switching your other technology platforms easier as you don’t have to be concerned with losing, or not having access to, data from those platforms. This is not a long process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. His job is to explore new frontiers of technology for secure fact-finding by human rights groups and journalists. Technology for social change is needed more and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

Benetech Truths 1 We are committed to social change through technology. Benetech is a Silicon Valley nonprofit organization developing innovative technology solutions with a primary goal of positive social change rather than profit. Our users are the primary drivers of our technology development. 2 We get stuff done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

The session was called "Funding Technology Projects" and was moderated by Jeff Forster. Here's the first segment about how to keep up with learning about technology. Some key points that resonated: Mackie spoke about the issue of nonprofits keeping up to speed in technology and how difficult it was. You need a network.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

We discussed literacy and access for the blind, and I learned about one of Mr. Kohli's passions, which is adult literacy. I was meeting with the Exegenix team, part of TCS that is working on XML document conversion technology. Since pattern recognition was my career prior to Benetech, I was fascinated.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

These tools can help organizations that work with individuals who have general writing concerns, English language learners, people with learning disabilities or physical handicaps in typing, people with dyslexia or recovering from strokes, and even those learning literacy and spelling. What Does Assistive Technology Mean For You?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Over the past few years, I have seen human rights groups become much more sophisticated about how they use technology to document human rights abuses. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. ” Its newest innovation is to provide cloud-based document storage for the homeless.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

In just the last year, we saw the shift to work from home, a necessitated reliance on technology and tools , and a larger focus on employee mental health and wellbeing. You take them through the entire training and onboarding process consisting of one-on-one coaching and tons of documents and paperwork. Frightened by these statistics?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Whether you're educating yourself or your staff, or teaching others technical skills, we can help you stay up-to-date on the latest technology, fundraising tools, or development strategies. WordQ predicts useful words and helps with spelling while you're creating documents and emails. Enroll in Online Courses from easyLearning.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. It's how you use technology that makes all the difference. Victoria, British Columbia: The Indigenous Technology Talent Development Strategy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. All eligible submissions will be judged on the combined demonstrated impact: (a) Use of technology. Interesting proposition.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. All eligible submissions will be judged on the combined demonstrated impact: (a) Use of technology. That sounds great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

s Degree in Instructional Technology. s Program in Instructional Technology at the University of North Florida. I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. s webmaster. This Blog is an experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 6, 2012

A year ago, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Civil Society Studies published a document titled, " The Nonprofit Technology Gap - Myth or Reality." The authors of the publication were curious to find out how accurately the widely held assumption that nonprofits are at a technological disadvantage reflects reality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We're sure we can do this because our technology allows us to cost-effectively and rapidly scale Bookshare.org. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy. We walked away with a handful of books, and I’ve been in touch by email with the founder: I hope we can find ways to help each other bring literacy to far more people who need it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Ironically, many of these users might buy commercial ebooks, but the anti-piracy technology built into many ebook systems are not compatible with the technology these users employ to get the books in Braille or synthetic speech. The problem is that we provide technology that allows for security, privacy and circumvention.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

" He told CityCamp attendees that civic hacking is not about the technologies being used. Technology solutions are sometimes created without the input of the people they are intended to benefit. Discussions like those at CityCamp inform the technology solutions the group will be creating. Not so in Oakland.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

The way that we can best honor the victims of past human rights violations is to document and share their stories in support of the campaign to drive change today—by seeking reforms, ending impunity and if at all possible, securing justice. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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