Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Additionally, internal leaks from Instagram have shown that the platform is aware that it can be harmful to young teens, especially young women. This includes information such as a user’s health and level of fitness, purchases, contact info, browsing, search history, and other personal or sensitive information.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Apps Made by Youth.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Moreover, the image is focused on an individual which allows the reader to empathize with the child and imagine her succeeding — and the key stats about the DREAM community suggest she will! Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. Power Poetry.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. As always, I learned a lot from Ze Frank's unique approach to community participation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Your volunteers represent your organization in the community, so let them know that some rules extend beyond the organization. Is proof of age required?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

It’s everything you’d expect from a tiny, community-built museum: a couple small rooms, a haphazard collection of objects, labels typed on printer paper and laminated or stuck to the wall. My favorite part was a wall of photos and transcribed oral histories from local elderly community members. And it was for me, too.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Whoever your community is, they decide. Can you define the community to whom you want to be relevant? The community decides what is relevant to them. Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? Then, we define the needs and assets of that community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. We saw Race Through Time as an opportunity to share our mission around engaging with history with a new and highly desirable audience of young professionals.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp! Other person: Nope.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. But it is also a symbol of a movement for third places that combine commerce, design and community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

There's so much going on these days at Bookshare: a growing community that's getting hard to keep track of! The One Year Devotionals For Teens 29. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. Twin of Ice 25.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2015

How can you tell if you want to go to "Museums and Communities" or "Museums and Social Issues" or "Museums and Very Cute Lizards"? If you want to hear more about my work at AAM, I''ll be speaking: Monday April 27 at 2:30pm in a solo talk on "Building Stronger Communities" at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I crave community, but I am not naturally outgoing in large group settings like conferences. To me, Museum 2.0

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Build community. Our greatest champions and our loudest critics agree: our museum has become an inclusive community gathering place.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. The “travel bugs” that Seth!

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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. Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! Something to make the virtual world better and empowering the community in a unique way. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. I just came from an historic and ground breaking event. The John D. and Catherine T. Rik Riel's multimedia coverage the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Flake, and the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, prompted survivors to share experiences online about why they haven’t spoken out about their own histories of abuse, assault or rape, using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport. What’s really helped me, however, is finding community and support. The bravery of the women who confronted Sen.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

But in the case of Tech Virtual, it also caused conflict as I tried to balance being a friendly, caring community manager with being the "boss" of the participatory process. technology and more focus on engaging with communities. But more substantively: there was less focus on web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. And it really came because I tend to be pissed off and I was pissed off that people were talking about community and inclusion but there was no evidence in their structure for it. Everyone was talking about community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. It''s impossible for any organization or business to do a great job being for everyone. Why fight it?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. You can’t send a random email or two, post something on social media, and expect to see a flood of donations.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. How can we invite students to collaborate with us the way we do with community partners and visitors?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. There is a mix of artwork, historical artifacts, community stories, and labels about the psychology of love.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

We should identify a few key community health indicators to focus on." Here are three reasons to find and connect with community-wide sources of data instead of doing it yourself: The data already exists. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. Management was horrified.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Do you want to become a community nexus? If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Are you trying to establish yourself as an up-to-the-minute news source on topics related to your museum’s content?

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