Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Get Safe Online has 10 questions that address different aspects of online safety. The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. Stay Safe Online by National Cyber Security Alliance is a wealth of resources. Learning Resources for Children and Families.

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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

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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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to the conversations with participants in three separate tracks, #14LCS includes a stellar lineup of keynote speakers who will spark new conversations and nudge existing conversations to introduce new questions. To get a jump-start on conversations for LCS, we asked Matt a few questions, shared below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. 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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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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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Host a pub-style quiz for your community and include some questions about your mission as a fun way to share your organization’s impact. Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Use silent auction software to seamlessly collect bids from your event attendees.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

The purpose of this list is to merely question what we mean when using certain words. This is one we use a ton internally and don’t question nearly enough. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” This is because literacy is not a binary descriptor, as it is often made to seem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The ASU Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) is one of only 56 continuing education professional development programs in the nation. [2] The ASU Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) is one of only 56 continuing education professional development programs in the nation. [2] We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. The software applications WordQ + SpeakQ provide writing assistance and speech recognition help for people with disabilities, new language learners, and those who are learning literacy.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

” International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is inviting CSOs and corporations, entrepreneurs, and the general public to submit questions, ideas, and stories in the run up to ITU Telecom World 2011 in October. It is themed “Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms, and innovation.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. The survey did include "National foundations and nonprofit organizations" and "Local community groups" as possible answers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

In 1989, a group of visionary Silicon Valley engineers and executives asked themselves a profound question: `Why couldn't the far-reaching power of the PC with voice synthesis be combined with scanning technology to create a usable, affordable reading machine for the blind?' Benetech's origins start with its Arkenstone project.

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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 ! We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. Alright you got me, I’m in. What’s next? Interesting proposition. b) Void States.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. Great question. To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! The winning story will be promoted through all of TechSoup’s channels. Alright you got me, I’m in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

National Science Foundation. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Some questions: What have you seen in terms of partnerships for people seeking funds for games? This is a time pressure question! The power of games have caused to rethink many things. How to begin to have conversations to understand it. Two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This integration has lead to lead to 7 Chapter groups communicating local news to their community and a national group with over 3,400 people sharing their stories and experiences. Since then the Foundation has ventured out to many of the social sites, spreading awareness about our cause and connecting with supporters. I used a cli.gs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Go read it.

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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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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Think of interactive ways the audience can engage with the story, like letting them post questions or submit their thoughts. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. The question was raised of whether we all belonged at the same table. Of course, there’s a less legal question here, one about authority and control.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. She made it almost impossible for me not to look at those questions.

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