Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

And check out the full lineup of #14LCS speakers and facilitators ! Second, align your measurement efforts to your outcomes as much as possible; ideally, measure the outcomes directly, and when direct measurements aren’t possible due to practical reasons (e.g., Learn what Matt Groch and his team are working on at @MissionMeasure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. To say that social media facilitates distraction is not to say that social media has to control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

It can be used to facilitate critical tasks that keep people invested in your mission. Also involved in your organization is her daughter Nina, a 22-year-old literacy coach who volunteers her time for many of your projects focused on children. That information will help you adjust your strategies.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Her career has been dedicated to helping students and professionals reach their full potential, including years of service in English and literacy at the secondary and higher education levels. As an instructor, her primary areas of focus included reading, writing and literacy advocacy for students of all abilities.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

NTEN will facilitate ongoing growth and community development with the help of volunteer organizers who agree to nurture and ignite conversation and engagement. Also, check out the first free CoP webinar, Building and Maintaining a Digital Literacy Corps. A Community of Practice will be more focused than an Affinity Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also provides tools that facilitate program management, funding development, and global collaboration. Operation Hope : This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. It has integrated Box content with its Salesforce implementation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

As you explore the different learning experience platforms available, make sure to look for these features: An intuitive interface so that any one of your employees, no matter their digital literacy, can use it easily. Use talent management software to track performance data and facilitate your employees’ progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.).

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

>>Read the full article Digital Currency, Banking the Unbanked For many people around the world, digital literacy is more than gaining access to online content but truly having access to independence through education and banking.

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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. I believe in the power of books to change the world. The second time was at a crucial moment when the Treaty seemed to hang in the balance.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In Alexandria and Herndon, Virginia, Symantec employees, together with Team Business , Girls in Technology , and the Women in Technology Education Foundation , organized and facilitated a business simulation for young women to highlight the impact of technology on business and help them build leadership and communication skills.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Gaming is literacy. How can we facilitate change? Games are made of up of rules - what you can or can't do in a game. After specific restraints comes play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? somewhere around 1996 or 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

And, that's why I really enjoy being a member of Cpsquared community because I get to explore online technology tools (in this case for online facilitation/collaboration) with really thoughtful people. First, as with a lot of online facilitation/collaboration it can be frustrating and a little chaotic. I met with the group last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Resource List Early Use of Backchannels Tara Hunt, Backchannel=Blogosphere Marc Cantor, Spell My Name Correctly Liz Lawley, Backchannel Modes Liz Lawley, Confessions of a Backchannel Queen Clay Shirky, Snarkiness on Parade NY Times, In the Lecture Hall, A Geek Chorus Dannah Boyd, Bridging Diverse Groups Backchannel in Learning and Education Vicky Davis, (..)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

As Mira explained: The goal is for students to experience presidential decision making, and then debrief, discuss, and share, utilizing historical and civic literacy skills. And the intention was for the facilitator to point out either during the experience itself or during the debrief that there are a lot of different choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Virtual events have skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more nonprofits moving to the digital space to facilitate traditional face-to-face engagement efforts like auctions, galas, and walkathons. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. The new venue is just the internet!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

He firmly believes that leaders who strive toward balance can more readily identify and curtail organizational entropy, facilitate a culture of trust, and foster diverse organizations and cultures that inspire everyone to bring their “whole sell” to work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

He firmly believes that leaders who strive toward balance can more readily identify and curtail organizational entropy, facilitate a culture of trust, and foster diverse organizations and cultures that inspire everyone to bring their “whole sell” to work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Here is a partial transcript from my interview with Viet-Ly: Viet-Ly: Streetside Stories is a nonprofit literacy arts program based in San Francisco and we work with the middle schools -- the public middle schools -- of the San Francisco Unified School District.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

We many not be able to do visualization like a data scientist, but having a basic literacy in visualization skills can help work more effectively with data geeks and navigating our work. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

It was during that time that I was recruited to participate in the volunteer-based program, The Teaching Collective, which actually helps to facilitate introductory level political education workshops in various high schools and youth organizing groups.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

For example, a "voting tools" session facilitated by WeVote generated discussion among participants on the barriers to voting and how to reduce them. " I saw this principle in practice in the sessions I attended. I spoke to the OPL community relations librarian, Sharon McKellar, about why she was there.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. So, Marie, thank you so, so much for doing this.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

Facilitating global literacy about Big Data is viewed as important for the media, civic hackers, and civil society. Their network will help with trouble shooting and data training. It will also give people the tools to help them work with and understand the power of data and aid data reuse.

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