Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A lively discussion took place regarding how to prepare young people for the jobs of the 21 st century and what nonprofits and corporations can do to support the initiative. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. century tech or business skills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. The whole of this activity should take place within Boracay, meet in the Piazza ( [link] ). You should take a picture of all your team gathered round the box in its hiding place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There are many tasks in a nonprofit day-to-day life - like grant writing, hiring someone, or prepping a board meeting where personal productivity matters most - connectedness really doesn't play a factor in getting these tasks off the to do list. Certainly we have a baseline of digital literacy skills , but what does that mean in web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Lately, I’ve found Quora to be an interesting place for discussions. I’ve been doing this for two years now. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

In the broadest sense, employee retention depends on a combination of factors, including work-life balance, benefits, compensation, development and learning opportunities , and more. You’ve come to the right place. If your own organization doesn’t keep up, your recruitment and retention rates will be impacted. Don’t fret!

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. This skill is called “Transdisciplinarity,” or the ability to understand and translate concepts across multiple disciplines, another 21st century skill. It’s about curation, creativity, and coordination across channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives. The most important listening literacy skills are. Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater). I would love to hear Howard Gardner talk about digital learning.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

By the end of this post and with a bit of practice, you’ll understand and have the skills to turn your story into a great video, from planning to shooting to editing to publishing to sharing, all on the smartphone you carry in your pocket! Find a quiet place to watch them, and make sure you don’t need to do any retakes before you proceed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend. "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. have all developed solutions for nonprofits, then there is clearly a shift taking place. One is hiring. Another is surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

That's where dancing takes place. Gaming is a literacy of transgression. Subvert the rules explore the limits of system propose alternate responses Great skills for social change. Gaming is literacy. They make up improvisational dancing. What you do inbetween the beats is up to you. Kids can go online an build stories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. We are pushing an envelope there.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Last month, the radio show This American Life ran a fascinating episode called " Kid Politics ," which starts with a long segment about the Air Force One Discovery Center immersive experience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Yes, the majority of the groups probably choose what Reagan actually did.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. A specific example of the positive impact it made in the life of a constituent, in the area of digital inclusion. Interesting proposition.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Dance-a-Thon You and your staff work tirelessly to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Silent Retreat Offer a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life by hosting a silent retreat.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. A specific example of the positive impact it made in the life of a constituent, in the area of digital inclusion. b) Void States. a) In General.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

I felt it was important for readers to see directly that leaders are not exempt from life's challenges and that learning from one's missteps is how we discover and build that next best version of ourselves. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

I felt it was important for readers to see directly that leaders are not exempt from life's challenges and that learning from one's missteps is how we discover and build that next best version of ourselves. Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. It’s nice to have both. So if you’re not at one of those weird little institutions, how do you make innovation happen?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. The Congress exposed some places and issues in severe need of attention, but I fear these are indignations quickly raised, quickly forgotten. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

So there are a couple of trainings: there is one in Santa Cruz, there's one in Sonoma County that really prepare you with the basic gardening skills, and some even teach you about school gardens, particularly. So when I started looking for work and being a grown up, I really felt that this was something that could help other young people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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 earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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