Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It isn’t just about collecting data or the tools to collect the data – it’s also the sense-making and having it be embedded in the nonprofit’s culture. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

.” I had opportunity to write up a case study about how VolunteerMatch’s calculates social return on investment as a prelude for a facilitated session at Media Impact Funders , so it was a delight to hear more examples from Robert about VolunteerMatch’s measurement culture. Know What Success Is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively. Define your Call to Action. As a nonprofit, it’s your most valuable asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

It became an overnight viral sensation and cultural phenomena. As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now. A Few Concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. We assume that people in Second Life are people who care about others and who are open to most communicating across boundaries - both cultural and geographic. My Live Blog post with notes from the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

As frequent readers of this blog know, many pitfalls of online contests have been discussed here. million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. ve created something that has some impact in the culture. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And they wrote an entire blog post about why they did that. So I do not let my daughter on Instagram, but that’s my own personal choice and do something that org, they are an organization dedicated to combating suicide and self-harm and addiction and all of these things in, in teens. That’s my blog posts.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. We discovered that teens felt uncomfortable in the galleries because they had to check their backpacks and they felt the guards were watching them.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 20, 2009

Yesterday I represented BlogHer on a conference call with bloggers from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, and Katie Couric. So far, they've reported on Safe Families for Children in Need , Teens Bring Economic Stress to School , and How to Address Your Kids' Recession Fears. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. These blogs - many of which launched in the past year, although a few are older - have become places where people of color gather to refine ideas or form thoughts about race relations, racial inequities, and the role pop culture has in exacerbating stereotypes.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

There are many dimensions to the digital divide, including income, gender, age, geographic location, culture and race. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. They've always been connected.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you say, “we need a blog,” others in your organization won’t know how to contextualize that within the programs and mission of the institution. Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. This may sound obvious and natural, but it’s easy to underestimate the power of institutional culture.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2015

This how you create a “ culture of impact.” million teen activists who had opted in to giving the organization their cell phone numbers and emails. The mistake: they sent a text message intended for a small sub-group of 4,000 members to its entire list of 2.1-million Failure Organizational Culture'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Roxana Gheorghe suggests the PSA Partnership and agrees, "It is an interesting subject because generosity is a characteristic typical to all cultures, ages, races and people. Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes. " Share Giving/Gaming Opportunities Online.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. SOS_Slaves is part of the transmedia project “Sands of Silence: Fighting Sexual Slavery and Trafficking.” JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

  In partnership with Girls Court and The Surfrider Foundation's O'ahu Chapter , Derosier started The Spirit Sessions, a six-week program aimed to help at-risk teens redirect their lives in a positive way through surfing and other ocean-related activities. So there is also cultural healing as well.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. And now, on to the exciting bits.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

blog posts from the past. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can''t do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don''t grow up in a white culture.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The irritating design? The bizarre obsession with "adding" friends?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Through his superb ability to convey big ideas into a shared vision, Jim forged a cultural identity for SFGMC, and their social media efforts would not be where it is today if not for Jim leading the way. He is a teacher and steps up to be of service in bringing his special brand of brilliance and enthusiasm.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

In Ireland, a children’s museum dealt with what to do about colonialism in a multi-cultural place using a theater-based exhibit format. Let’s say there's someone—a reader of this blog—an educator or designer or director or whoever—who wants to and is ready to change their museum. Outside the U.S. Do you have to be a director to do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

A Culture of Iteration. For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. So they started a partnership with Arrow and campaign called “ Teens for Jeans.”. It is ongoing.”. Text Crisis Line.

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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. People are not bombarded by marketing messages and societal pressure to engage with cultural venues. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. I've blogged about the San Francisco school gardening program, Urban Sprouts before. Most of the participants are between the ages of 17-25, working class and youth of color.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. The inclusion and prominence of amateur art in the museum makes a complicated statement that is worth a whole other blog post. Going to MAH and seeing the LOVE exhibition on First Friday was a wonderful experience.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value bringing global cultures and opinions into our institution? Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Does your museum take in traveling exhibitions that feature worldwide cultures? Let's look at these one by one.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Do y’all know what that is? What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. News and blog content. Project Open Hand accomplishes that, and goes a step further by organizing their news, blog, and press releases in an eye-catching (on-theme!)

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