Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The tough question that ran through my mind was: How can we as technologists in Silicon Valley help prevent this kind of atrocity? Delivering my opening remarks at the Martus'' 10th Anniversary A decade later, in 2003, Benetech —the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead—launched our Human Rights Program to address this very question.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

The big question everybody asks me is what I'm going to do differently. 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. But, I don't feel that way!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

" is a top question we hear at TechSoup from the organizations we serve. Our Nonprofits Live interactive series is designed to address such questions and find solutions for the toughest organizational issues. During the event, you will hear from our speakers and have a chance to ask them questions in the interactive chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. We can’t blame it all on the amount of information. The Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

It''s important to ask the question, "What thought capital do you bring to the world?" In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. One question that came up for the panel was, "How can organizations can balance wide-scale employee involvement?"

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. With over 800 million global users on Facebook, if you do the math – that’s a lot of information! One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. That’s less true.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Create a training program to ensure social media literacy. If you want to take a page from Dell’s book, have it include three tiers: personal users, spokespeople answering questions and traditional, offline spokespeople (such as your CEO) who now must also be online spokespeople.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Gaming is about questioning everything. Games examples: Identity and social clicks in high school Globalization - Sim game about you could plounder a developing country Panchatantra - a board game. Gaming is literacy. Outside game: Gaming as a global experience.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

Great question. To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. The LIM reaches TechSoup’s global network of resources that spans over 80 countries.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We know you've got questions. Engage with more than 1,000 fellow attendees including leadership from marquee foundations, governments, global industries, the U.N., The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. We have the answers. Associations / #MMCCon / @MMCconf.

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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. The LIM reaches TechSoup’s global network of resources that spans over 80 countries. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. Great question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

We also agreed that we had to work harder at delivering our core common message that disadvantaged communities globally need much more than charitable handouts, they need access to the tools to help themselves. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting. Instant accomplishment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Emphasis is on digital literacy. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund. Some questions: What have you seen in terms of partnerships for people seeking funds for games? This is a time pressure question! Interested in games for learning and social change. Partners in Learning program -- gave stats.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We use journalism because it is a very empowering profession, enabling people to become the "question askers" in their societies. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56. We have a grand plan; my dad calls it the grand plan for global domination [laughs]. CH: Right, exactly. I said, "You write it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. and Is That The Question?):GlobalGiving’s

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

It's a question whose answer eluded me from the day I registered eight months ago through the first few days of the conference this week. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. What is the Science Center World Congress ?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2022

Climate change is a global, systemic crisis and there are many points of entry.”. To build trust, consider questions like these when seeking community validation: Are you inviting an inclusive, diverse group of people to take part in consultations and planning? Doing something at the community level feels tangible.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

This is helpful if an emergency occurs that prevents face-to-face meetings (like bad weather or a global pandemic) or if you simply want to increase participation with digital attendees. This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. Let’s dive in! Need virtual fundraising ideas? Download PDF.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? Great question! Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Ask Nathaniel James your questions about digital inclusion at our next Ask the Expert session. Founded by Susan Crawford, who now advises President Obama on science, technology, and innovation policy, OneWebDay is a global event that is celebrated every September 22 since 2006. Nathaniel James, OneWebDay. This year's theme -- One Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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