Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This includes on-demand training, onboarding calls, and step-by-step instructions on how to participate. With this type of growth, we can safely say there is both appetite and enthusiasm to change the way we collect demographic data. One major step was integrating this data seamlessly into our partners’ existing grantmaking workflows.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

Register now for SAP's Monthly Technology Expert Sessions for the Nonprofit Community! Join SAP experts as they provide an overview of the SAP Global Technology Donation Program offered to the nonprofit community through our nonprofit partner TechSoup. What you will take away?

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2013

Register now for SAP's Monthly Technology Expert Sessions for the Nonprofit Community! Join SAP experts as they provide an overview of the SAP Global Technology Donation Program offered to the nonprofit community through our nonprofit partner TechSoup. What you will take away?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 25, 2014

To make them truly count, we must put our technology innovations into the hands of real people and see what actually works. Technology has advanced to a point where it is easy to do so. What if we applied Joi’s agile, bottom-up innovation approach to the global development challenge posed by Chris? Let me explain.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020. He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020. He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. federal law supports braille instruction. Accordingly, U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the new book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020. And, by new employment models, including freelancers, gig workers, and crowds.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

By leveraging low-code platforms, such as the Microsoft Power Platform, your staff members have a vast ecosystem of emerging technologies at their fingertips. Your “low-coders” or “citizen developers” can use technology to optimize the unique business processes they already know intimately.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Due to high demand, CLI quickly expanded, and now offers an expanded service model including recurring workshops in literacy instruction and personalized, job-embedded coaching to help educators create a lasting love of reading in their students (of books like Where the Wild Things Are!). Star Wars: Force for Change. Greenpeace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you find one for your nonprofit, follow the instructions to claim and set up your page : If your nonprofit does not find an unclaimed LinkedIn Page, then start from scratch and create a new page by going to your LinkedIn homepage > select the “Work” icon in the upper right > Create a Company Page. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

They’re looking for creative ways to retain staff, keep them happy and engaged, deal with burnout, bridge skills gaps, and implement new technology to help it all come together. Strategies like reducing workload and stress levels and offering mindfulness instruction can help, but they treat burnout as an individual condition.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

Writing proposal tips Read instructions thoroughly. Go all the way through the instructions before you start the application process and review the instructions multiple times throughout the grant writing process, especially when you finish creating your grant application. The Ford Foundation granted $1.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

One of iconic icebreakers that Gunner has used is the “ Human SpectraGram ” that I first observed Gunner do at 2007 Penguin Day. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes. The topics.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Make it better than any program you’ve done before, make it global and make it for girls,” those were the instructions from Mastercard’s CEO Ajay Banga to Susan Warner, VP Global Volunteerism, in 2014. Girls Just Want to Have… STEM! And to us, that’s priceless.”.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

That's why we’ve created a month-long global campaign built around the transformative power of storytelling, uniquely customized to the nonprofits, libraries, and social benefit organizations we serve. Here at TechSoup, we’re big on stories because we believe they can change lives. Are You Up for the Challenge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nayla’s organization, Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL), will also develop teacher training courses on the platform aimed at strengthening remote instruction. Technology That Maximizes Donor Impact. As distance learning becomes more common, the long-term benefits of Tabshoura are incredible. About the Authors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

And as event technology advances and people become more and more familiar with a digital format, the benefits of a virtual trade show become abundantly clear. Without the need for travel, a virtual trade show can reach a wider, potentially global, audience. Larger Audience. Employ traditional media.

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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

If you don’t have a technology or legal background, where do you start? Mozilla has instructions on how to encrypt your hard drive. With GDPR coming into effect in the European Union and privacy scandals making headlines, many nonprofit professionals are concerned about data protection. The process can be intimidating!

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

And as event technology advances and people become more and more familiar with a digital format, the benefits of a virtual trade show become abundantly clear. Without the need for travel, a virtual trade show can reach a wider, potentially global, audience. Larger Audience. Employ traditional media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. If you are also demonstrating how to steps for the technology on the screen, go even slower. 2) Keep a Slow Pace. Speak at half your normal speed.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 18, 2013

Instructive. WTF is incredibly relevant and timely because Solis explores the non-stop transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. And, it's enlightening and instructive , because the book delivers real-world examples that can guide you as you shape your business. Highly visual.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Beth''s Blog recently featured a guest post by Christian Arno, Using Social Media Internationally: How Not to Get Lost in Translation , full of useful tips for anyone with a global audience. This post by Beaconfire empowers you to assess your page weight with step-by-step instructions (and illustrations!)

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He is a programmer and web developer who helps other charities use technology more effectively. CONNECT is a global cybersecurity awareness campaign to help all of us stay safer and more secure online. Get step-by-step instructions on how to enable and use two-factor authentication at STOP. Update That Software.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Technology, and more! Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

In It's Not You, It's Your Stories at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Steve Daigneault (VP of eCampaigns at M&R Strategic Services ) and Sue Citro (Director of Digital Strategy, Global Programs at The Nature Conservancy ) shared their tips for telling better and more effective stories. Make them trip over it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

So, while at BlogHer 07 I had a little bit of a personal learning mission: What can I learn about mobile video blogging in a global context? My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. But, the brain fog has started to fade.

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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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). See TechSoup's Mobile Technology solutions. Other features are available at additional cost.).

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

These technologies also provide mobile, accessible ways for individuals to search for and browse volunteer opportunities in their area. Some recognizable days of service are National Volunteer Week, Global Youth Service Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Were the instructions clear? Give them a great experience.

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