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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

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Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. The most important listening literacy skills are. Reiteracy is Social Media Listening Literacy. Or the Goolge Adwords Keyword tool.

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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Promote your grand prizes on social media to attract a larger audience and create buzz around your event. Advertise your lawn mowing services to your community through social media to attract potential donors.

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Nonprofit and Library App Survey from App It Up

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What We Found in the Numbers We made an effort to include both nonprofits and libraries by promoting the surveys in the TechSoup forums, via NetSquared and TechSoup for Libraries , and through social media. And the Green Action Centre is working on an app to help with data-gathering for a school travel planning initiative.

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

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Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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America's Giving Challenge: Bloggers Campaign Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Is that cool - the literacy school is green! I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. I want to mention a few recent posts.

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