NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. Consider a mural.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

   Several people pointed to Cynthia Derosier, author of The Surfer Spirit Book and recently published The Survivor Spirit : The Beauty, Passion, and Power of Breast Cancer Survivors.   In many ways, surfing was regarded as a way to celebrate life and be cleansed.    What is your new book about?

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Hawaii Causes Cancer Celebrate 50

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over. They've got it expertly set up so that you can purchase exactly the toys/books that the hospitals want through Amazon.com and have them shipped directly to the hospital. Free Books for Kids!

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Hurricane Haiti Music Children 40

Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. How did they do it? Sometimes more!

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. How did they do it? Sometimes more!

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

In celebration of Women's History Month, we wanted to share some of these sheroic tales and introduce you to young women who are carrying the torch forward today. She's celebrated for "making films by women and about women," which featured females stars of the era, including Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball, and Clara Bow. Gertrude B.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone Artist 133

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. blog here and here.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. When something gets booked on your calendar, you attend. This is a question I've been puzzling over now for a few months, both professionally and personally.

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Arts Museum Music Calendar 50

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Author of two books, one just came out last February. And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Now, and I can even speak from my own experience, the majority of the time I spend on social media is connecting with brands, and celebrities, and causes that I’ve never met. Get her newsletter.

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Social Media Trend Video Marketing 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Speakers ranged from Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via Skype), to online ethnographer danah boyd , consultants from the Obama and McCain ’08 campaigns (and the Obama Whitehouse), academics and thoughtleaders such as Mark Pesce and Clay Shirky , and techno-celebrities such as Craig Newmark ( Craigslist ) and Gina Bianchini ( Ning ).

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Grant Personal Reflection New York City 90