Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Despite the flexibility, comprehensiveness, and mainstream popularity of WordPress, it does require skill, which is fine if you're the independent type with a soft spot for customization. Still, some skill is required, and many libraries and nonprofits take this to heart, having limited capacity if something goes horribly wrong.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. Some Lifeline phone service providers also offer free mobile phones and minutes to low-income families.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Now imagine if you could harness the talent, skill, vision, and drive of all the smart people you know to create massive change for good. To celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 products, we're partnering with Microsoft to empower app creators to take their ideas to the streets.

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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! A phone tripod or tripod app (to prevent shaky filming). Find your story.

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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

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

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. Here are a few new things we could be doing with our phones and tablets in 2016. a-month phone service or home broadband — their choice. One is hiring. Another is surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

What role do video games, cell phones and social networking websites play in the development of today's children? Nichole Pinkard , Director of Technology and Research Associate, Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago, working to expand after-school media literacy programs. Webcast link: [link] (beginning at 10:00 a.m.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Relying too heavily on technology means that those who lack the resources, language skills, and savvy to use technology to its full potential are left behind. Failure to engage the digital immigrants. The changes in technology are more difficult for some of our older volunteers.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Social Listening Literacy Skills. You can read on the web or send messages to your phone or IM client. How will you share the information? Not everyone has to do the deep dive or heavy lifting, how will you organize your team effort? How will you share the results of what you heard? Are you currently using RSS Reader?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. Today, she is using technology to help fellow trafficking victims. That’s just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. 15% of adult SNS users said they had an experience on the site that ended their friendship with someone. Healthy Mind Platter.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone. Data literacy will become one of the most important skills for a nonprofit professional to possess. Build these skills and hire for them too. Mobile is the New Normal. Compare that to about 2 billion personal computers – and not growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

There is a gap in social skills, experience, and knowledge when you only have 10-15 minutes of access in library versus 24/7 access at home. The young people who don't have pervasive access will fall behind in terms of skills. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Each time the students decide what to do, the young Reagan picks up a red phone and presses either A or B. Mira Cohen, the Reagan Library's Director of Education (and the creator of the Discovery Center experience) told me that the intent was to design a pilot program for 5th graders with a focus on learning historical thinking skills.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

Knowing how to write effective fundraising emails is an increasingly important skill. Email is one of the most popular fundraising channels: 48% of donors prefer to receive updates and appeals in their inboxes, and email beats out social media, phone calls, and other digital channels in terms of fundraising performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Howard Rheingold has an interesting post titled "Twitter Literacy ( I refuse to Make Up a Twittery Name for It ). Rheingold suggests that is an example of social media literacy: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively.

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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. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. Interesting proposition. b) Void States.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, instead of using sheets of paper to track bids at a silent auction, users could enter their bids on a tablet or via an app on their phone. DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill. This will be a great event for social media promotion and engagement.

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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. states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont; the Canadian province of Québec; and in any and all jurisdictions where skill contest advertising promotions are prohibited or restricted by law. b) Void States. a) In General.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Offer skills-based volunteer opportunities for participants to enhance certain skills, especially tech-related ones. Remember to offer roles where your volunteers can learn new skills and engage with others, just like they can with in-person opportunities. Ask volunteers what they’d like to see.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship. Businesses are made up of people, and the success of businesses relies on how those people interact, communicate, and collaborate with each other.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Coaching is fundamental to the skill set of all leaders and is foundational to the manager/employee relationship. Businesses are made up of people, and the success of businesses relies on how those people interact, communicate, and collaborate with each other.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The user can go to any bus stop and simply text the stop ID number (listed on every bus stop) to a local phone number (415-528-3226). The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, which connects to Wi-Fi. The user will receive a text with the three closest locations that have free Internet access.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Our vision is to put accessible books into the hands of disabled students on borrowed PCs or devices they already have, such as inexpensive MP3 players and cell phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I discovered Doug Johnson's book about internet literacy skills - which includes the mankato scale. Fast forward a few years, and someone posts a request on the NTEN list about digital literacy skills. Let me tell you, this isn't first time I discovered Doug Johnson. As Honest Abe once said, ???

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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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