Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2006

Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages.

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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. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

For example, if youre trying to reach new donors, consider participating in #GivingTuesday (in addition to running your year-end campaign) to help increase visibility by connecting to this broader movement. For example, consider creating a strategy for segmenting your emails and testing, this is a great resource from Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. 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. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Benetech melds the mission and heart of social activism with the powerful methods and tools of the technology community. Benetech doesn't give technology away, but instead develops socially beneficial and affordable products and services that are not financially attractive to for-profit companies. Matilda Ziegler Foundation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The first time I really "got" the power of accessible technology (AT) to improve the lives of people with disabilities was when I saw the PBS documentary Freedom Machines. This simply means that disabled people often have little money and can't afford the assistive technology that would greatly enhance their lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

As you can see, Harry was exposed to technology at a young age. As a parent and a technology trainer, I'm constantly reminded of the importance of scaffolding. and new technolgies in early literacy development. and new technolgies in early literacy development. research into the language arts."

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. While many nonprofit professionals are digital immigrants , we’ve had 20 years now to learn the language and customs of the digital native world. Time is up. Add to that agility and empathy.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? What are the best examples of social networking use? How do increase internet literacy with communities? What type of language should i use? GapersBlock - great example. Is there a difference? If there is what should it be?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally? I said, "You write it. You tell your story."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects.

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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. It turns out to help adults as well as kids, since many adults hadn’t seen books in their native Lao language before. One of the founders, Kent Gregory, was in the shop, and we ended up talking for most of an hour about the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. 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.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

" He told CityCamp attendees that civic hacking is not about the technologies being used. For example, Priforce described Martin Luther King, Jr. Technology solutions are sometimes created without the input of the people they are intended to benefit. as "one of our greatest hackers. Not so in Oakland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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