Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2009

Mint strike and sell these Louis Braille Silver Dollars , and some of the money goes to supporting Braille literacy. Tags: dollar BRL Braille silver NFB. I've been using a Morgan silver dollar from the 19th century when I referee soccer games each fall: this September I plan to surprise the kids with a Braille silver dollar!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Their first project is a secondary school for 1,200 girls in Afghanistan where the female literacy rate is only 12%. Tags: Twitter Micro Fundraising Online Fundraising. I worked for a number of years in international development and it’s true when they say “Empower Women – Change the World.&#.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The article makes this sound like a new idea, but The Hunger Site (and their later projects for breast cancer, children’s health, literacy, rain forest protection, and animal rescue) has been doing this since 1999. Tags: Online Fundraising. I hope they’ll prove me wrong.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. Tags: Social Media #nptech Non-Profit Social Media Strategy. In our brief time together Claire mentioned one of the core values at Twitter – “Being a force for good”. Want to be featured?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

She pointed out the sad irony that while Internet literacy is a key ingredient for fighting poverty in New Mexico, building up that literacy is more expensive in poor communities than in wealthy ones: read more. Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of tags to organize and bookmark Internet Resources related to subjects. for Educators.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2009

Brenda loves the Pulaski County Public Library's Literacy Bell, a simple way to celebrate children's literacy. Tags: Web 2.0 From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Stephanie announces a free webinar next week, Technology Grants for Libraries 101. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. Tags: Free Agent. He won the competition and the prize money was use to build the WeAreVisble Site.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

She's also the executive director of Community Technology Network , a nonprofit that brings information access and digital literacy to underserved Bay Area populations. Check out the Surdna tag at TechSoup for Libraries for more information.). Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions. Tags: fundraising2.0

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Well then I'll delay no further: Ann Beck , from the Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County. Tags: member appreciation NTEN. The 2010 Nonrpofit Technology Conference registration give-away to one of our current members as part of the 2009 Member Appreciation daily prizes? We're giving you a free registration to the 2010 conference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

We have an opportunity to receive a couple of OLPCs for our literacy program at our farming project (we school the kids of farmers who we train to farm the land, sell vegetables, proceeds go into micro loan fund.). Tags: birthday. Okay, that's not a huge amount, but I'm the donor!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. tags: listening socialmedia ). The most important listening literacy skills are. Qui Diaz, The Big Dig Beth Kanter, Listening Literacy Skills 3. Tags: listening. Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Beth Kanter, Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Beth Kanter - Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights? Tags: listening. To learn more about listening, check out these resources: Beth Kanter - What is the value of listening to social media channels for your organization? We Are Media - Module 1: Listening. I'm listening. -

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

The next day, I find out via a tweet from Lara Long, Benetech's literacy product manager, that my talk is online at the TEDxVolcano livestream , at about 46 minutes in. Tags: SWF SWF10 Twitter TEDxVolcano BBC. I thought it was apropos of a volcano theme. Working the exit options to get home. Opening doors to speaking gigs.

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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. Tags: wearemedia. Our session covered: Why listening offers value. A Living Case Study of Red Cross Listening Techniques. Six Ways To Make Listening A Practice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

What about literacy and education? Tags: WEF HuffPo Davos Benetech IP GRI intellectual property Davos10. What about a life-saving drug that poor countries can't afford? What about access to knowledge about how to prevent your child from dying from a preventable illness?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff. Tags: Tripathi Martus NHRC human rights Nigeria MacArthur. We were thrilled to work with the NHRC as a new Martus partner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Qui Diaz, The Big Dig: Online Listening and Research Amy Naslund, How and Why of Listening David Alston, Top Reasons To Listen KD Paine, 27 Different Types of Conversations Beth Kanter, Listening Literacy Skills Beth Kanter How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofits. Tags: listening.

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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. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. Tags: socialmediametrics social media ROI listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

I opened up a search on the tag in one tab and in another tab the replies to me. . 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. Tags: twitter. The mechanics of participating were fairly easy for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. Tags: Conferences Guest Post. In our brief time together Claire mentioned one of the core values at Twitter – “Being a force for good”. Hope140 ’s aim is to do just that. Want to be featured?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 3, 2010

Over the past ten years, Stephen has written successfully funded grant proposals in a variety of areas including professional development, school improvement, service-learning, after school, mentoring, school technology, family literacy, youth fitness, violence prevention, and college access programs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

A search engine doesn't know that "high-quality, evidence-based early childhood literacy interventions" are the same thing as "helping children learn to read." Make sure you properly format headlines with an "H1" (headline one) tag. Use those words in your content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Hold an annual fundraising event with readings and signings by local writers to benefit a literacy program at a school, nonprofit or library, or to give a grant to an aspiring local writer. Tags: askbritt. Donate to your community. Help your community donate.

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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. Tags: contest fundraising2.0 The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010.

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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. Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Technology is not fully appreciated, and computer literacy is limited in an environment where users can’t experiment. Tags: guest blogging ROI. Strategic opportunities that arise on the web are not noticed and factored into planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

His post about how he discovered the photo and how he planned to use it (or not): I was preparing for tomorrow's virtual session with Alan, D'Arcy, and Jim , doing a search on CC-licensed stuff in Flickr tagged with "mashup," when I came across the image above. It wasn't quite right for the page I ended up assembling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. 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. It starts in the home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one). The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. Technorati Tags: VECoP If you have problems IM Rosie Luna and Futura Fortas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc. Note to self: Time to rethink the old 1998-99 version of " Zen and the Art of Internet Searching " to incorporate tags/blogs).

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? Tags: ingvild bjornvold measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN performance management. Gather staff at all levels to understand, cooperatively, your organization's key outcomes, indicators, and performance targets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Tags: backchannel.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

She runs a blog , has posted slides from a AAAS talk she did on the Massive Science concept , and here’s a little CNET article about her GDC keynote on “The future of collective play: Fostering collaboration, network literacy and massively multiplayer problem-solving through alternate-reality games.". Tags: storytelling web2.0

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