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. Consider third grade student Brennan Draves.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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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. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. Success in Second Life.

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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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

educational technology and the adult learner." Dave goes on to explain the concept of "Reverse Curriculum" Reverse curriculum tends to develop out of the interests that the students show during the course and they get to record and create the material as part of their daily practice. between students evaporated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

I'm working with an afterschool program/ctc lab to develop an instructional technology plan. In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. These can be easily blogged as mini-lessons.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. I asked some of my colleagues for some examples of how they use TechSoup donations. They said you want an example? You mean everything we do, every day?"

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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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, instead of using sheets of paper to track bids at a silent auction, users could enter their bids on a tablet or via an app on their phone. It’s also very easy for just about anyone to put on due to modern portable karaoke technology. One huge benefit of technology is that these are no longer cash-only events.

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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. One example proves we'll reach our goals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Those who envision what could be possible by having Benetech apply innovative technology to the areas of Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment, and who enable us to explore new opportunities for creating social good. For example, our 2008 major human rights grants from the Oak Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

All of the staff have name badges identifying them either as students or teachers. I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy. After trying and failing twice to get into Makphet (“pepper” in Lao) Restaurant for dinner, we had a fabulous lunch there.

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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. 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).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The speakers were part of a presentation during the "Broadband Technology Summit" held as part of the United Minority Media Association's Midwest/Southeast conference on October 15. He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses.

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