Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. Get Safe Online has 10 questions that address different aspects of online safety. Austin noted that the site can be hard to read as the typeface is quite small. Common Sense Media offers online safety assessments for educators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

This is probably more of an issue for those folks who work in nonprofits and have social media responsibilities as part of their work, not all their work. Can we expect that down the road five or ten years that we might have "social literacies, skills, and competencies" at the nonprofit staff level?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

He also suggests that making use of social media and other online tools without getting hit with information overload is the essential secret to success in the 21st century. The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening Literacy Skills Whether your nonprofit is using listening tools that are free or a professional tool to take a deeper dive, after you figure out who will do the listening and how to make it actionable , it's time to address the nitty gritty of what and how. .

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Please donate today to raise literacy of deaf children! link] #nonprofit #literacy #deaf. What benefit do they experience by spending their valuable time to visit wherever the link takes them? Tweet : It's almost December, month of giving! Nonprofit is @CuedSpeech.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

With so much information coming at us from social networks, web sites, emails, and other digital sources, we can no longer afford to just whine about it – content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Now that we’re on the cusp of a society that has come of age with the Internet and social networks, we need to re-think everything and hone skills to deal with the constant and global scale of connectedness. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

There’s some much of it that it is now measured in exabytes which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. social media social networking facebook' The organization visits hospitals, hospice programs, and children who have experienced traumatic events. Stella the Therapy Dog.

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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. and Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. More and more, now we can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

I saw there mesmerized watching the animation and reading the other names of the petition signers (not all 47,000 of them, though) and was offered a badge to put on my social networking profile or blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Jennifer Paterson Dempsy, The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada Just recently I asked for help within my social network at Twitter to spread the word about something I am very passionate about, Braille Literacy.

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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. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. There is a huge gap in understanding between what young people are doing with social media spaces and what adults perceive. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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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. The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Web filtering not only blocks pornography and spyware, but continues on to sports, entertainment, politics, and social networking. Technology is not fully appreciated, and computer literacy is limited in an environment where users can’t experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. into gaining web social (networking) skills. And, now mid-2000 this has changed again.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services. The application purports to claim the trademark “social enterprise” in five areas: computer software, business services, educational services, on-line software and social networking services.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. I believe you need to find specific people—not just social networks—who can help you in this effort. There are several good resources on evaluating participation.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

talked about the Bellevue Sculptural Travel Bug project and geocaching, and Tamara and I both talked about content experiences that incorporate exhibits, social networks, and in the case of a newish project I'm working on, cellphones. Rob shared some of the Exploratorium's forays into electronic guidebooks, Seth!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The idea behind Johnny Hung's Bond & Me app is that people can more easily find nonprofit and social good events in their area. The app aggregates data based on your location, interests, and social networks to provide you a list of recommended events. Now that's something I can definitely get behind!

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APRIL 26, 2021

This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. BEACON for Adult Literacy’s peer-to-peer page draws users in with a branded banner image showcasing what this event is and the core mission—adult literacy. The fundraiser leaderboard and thermometer are testaments to the success of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

He talks about the "Cloud" a word to describe how we're all more closely connected through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and etc. I think this is connected to what Rheingold's Attention Literacy piece, but I have go back and read it again. Here are the bits that resonated with me.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses. For example, a river float business with a web presence will lose out to other businesses that connect to customers over broadband through websites and commercial social networks like Facebook.

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