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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the first time I ran it for people all from the same organization, with a limited amount of time, and mix of experience. It was from April, 2008! At that time, the audience skewed younger. I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information.

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Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By the time she was hired as a proofreader and scanner in December 2008, Mayrie had played a key role in contributing more than 1,000 accessible books to the collection. She said her primary motivation when starting out with Bookshare was to help provide timely books for young adult and teen readers.

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Who are the Millennials?

Care2

Now answer this, how much time is your organization spending on reaching out to Millennials (people who were born between 1981 and 2000)? The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens. What does this mean for your nonprofit? In short, this generation is reshaping America. are Hispanic; 14.2%

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category. Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. Adequate time to deliberate + clarity of purpose are provided. The White House has experimented with these several times. Drinking from the Firehose? Both facts + values underlie the choices to be made.

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Quick Hits: Funding, Facts, and Futurecasting

Museum 2.0

Great and sometimes surprising statistics on social media use around the world, circa March of 2008. It's part three of an ongoing project, so the authors analyze trends over time as well as providing a snapshot of March 2008. I can't wait for part four.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

If people are already on Facebook, have gone to your Causes donation page, become a "member" to your Cause, and still havent donated - they arent going to, no matter how many times you message them. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. Sometimes more!

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