Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. Looks like the work would take approximately 3-6 hours (figure out interview questions, conduct the interview, post the transcript) depending on your twitter literacy skills.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

the day donors wake up from their post-Thanksgiving food stupors, reflect on spending too much money during those retail-holidays-that-shall-not-be-named, and decide to offset the materialistic frenzy with some good-for-the-soul charitable giving - and then, of course, they take a selfie. Ah, #GivingTuesday. Visit https://t.co/ypEqPWiVvD

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. This is good, basic digital literacy principles that have been taught by educators and librarians taught in the early 2000′s and continue today. He suggests these goals: 1.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals. Provide opportunities for people to learn by watching, reading, practicing, and reflecting. For example, the University of Kentucky publishes this skills checklist with a list of basic computer skills you could adapt to your context.

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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. One of the reflections. (Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

I’ve just had the chance to reflect on how cool CGI 2013 and some of the ideas I’m still processing! You can read more about how this project will create lasting impact in India in a blog post by Betsy Beaumon , VP and General Manager of our Global Literacy Program.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

She is leading a movement to change “nonprofit” to “human investment company” to accurately reflect the contributions of the sector. She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. This one reflects a moment in time rather than a period of time. . This is the date that your financials and budget reflect. In a sector where budgets are typically tight, there is no position exempt from understanding some basic accounting principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Most of all, I want to master the ability to switch between connectedness and solitude. I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

He also pointed me to this reflection. Dave Cormier has been my critical friend as I write personal reflections on the community as curriculum process we're using to develop the content through the WeAreMedia Project. Dave shared his most recent observations through some reflections of his project. Community commitment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Some folks are passionate about literacy and helping people with disabilities, others about human rights, and still others about the environment. I think that's crucial to scaling in an way that reflects Benetech's values. In this case, we're recognizing that Benetech serves widely differing audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

As always, conversations at GEO are remarkably self-reflective. Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) (My daughter was 4 when we began the conversation about funders’ role in building the effectiveness of their grantees!) This time, my favorite conversations have been about what’s next.

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Neon CRM

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” You can create levels to mark your mid-level donors’ milestones and then give them branded keepsakes reflecting those milestones. You can also base the levels on dollar amounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Our values reflect this commitment. Interfaith literacy events and interesting learning opportunities. Some of our most popular perks include: Accrued paid time off starting at 15 days per year. 5 floating holidays and 7 fixed holidays per year. Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

I’m happy finally to get an opportunity to reflect here on that important event. Harkin’s work, especially his efforts to guarantee that every child has the opportunity to pursue quality education, infuses everything we at Benetech do through our Literacy Program to transform the lives and outcomes of individuals with disabilities.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The basic idea is that there is a set of skills that need to be emphasized for kids today to be good citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century--skills like collaboration, global awareness, and media literacy. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

It was very interesting to reflect about what was included, and (perhaps even more interesting) what was excluded from accounting statements. Here is an example of the impact of showing the economic value added of volunteer contributions in a large nonprofit literacy organization based in Canada. What about the volunteer contributions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

Themes will reflect both a specific programmatic focus and an ongoing opportunity for growth – for example, Public Computing (vs BTOP grants). Also, check out the first free CoP webinar, Building and Maintaining a Digital Literacy Corps. A Community of Practice will be more focused than an Affinity Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy). Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources). Being strategically future-minded.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

Today, The Sustainability Mindset builds on the candid self-reflection and bold decision making created by the first title. When the matrix map was completed, it showed counseling, financial literacy and job training operating at financial deficits. Intro to the Matrix Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos. But that was last month's thinking, the Webinar gave me a chance to reflect and incorporate new learnings, particularly with some of the professional tools. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Matthew had more than 40 volunteers to plan shifts for, along with a method for encouraging participants to reflect on and share their experiences the next day. Sharing the Experience. Although the community couldn't visit their usual haunts on techsoup.org, they could still keep up with TechSoup online. TechSoup Sweat Equity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Design a training/onboarding process that reflects your organization. As you explore the different learning experience platforms available, make sure to look for these features: An intuitive interface so that any one of your employees, no matter their digital literacy, can use it easily.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Annual Reading, Literacy & Learning conference is a source of information for anyone affected by dyslexia and other learning based challenges. Please save the day for Nonprofit Day 2019. General / @npp_erie. 10/29/2019.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. This is also a reflection of the organization's diverse staff members, who can bridge lots of disciplines and groups.

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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. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events. It was not unusual for a person to pull out a document showing national dropout rates for their country in the middle of a cocktail party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. I've been reflecting on the importance of authenticity in CSR programs that my business partner at Zoetica Geoff Livingston wrote about the other day. x (Total Retweets).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. The point is - you need to steal five or ten minutes from the doing to reflect in action. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag.

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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. And finally, measuring impact as it reflects back on the priorities for responders as well as those working to engage the rest of the world in targeted support. What’s Next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. " Media literacy is a paradigm shift - not an add-in subject. It starts in the home. Parents are facing challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. Andy Roberts is part of the group that is now being called "Virtual Educators Community of Practice" He's written a meta reflection on some of his recent tour experience here. We debriefed about the three levels of learning.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

They can reflect on the past two decades and share their wisdom. Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. A retiring long-time Executive Director. A new building, whether you are breaking ground or ready to cut the ribbon.

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