Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 3) Launch a Tribute Giving Program.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

What's the biggest mistake people make when involving non-professionals in exhibition design? It's a surprising fact that volunteer designers don't want a blank slate for their creativity. We gave them all the information we had, and on the first day they had a 90-minute conference call with the real exhibit designers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Less than 1% of the users of most social Web platform create original content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

I had the honor of designing a two and half workshop on “ Measurement ” with co-author KD Paine and social media nonprofit rock stars, David Neff and Carie Lewis. If you are hungry for the content, see the above deck or these two curated collections of Tweets – one from David Neff and the other from me.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

In 2007, UNICEF’s creative agency designed an awareness campaign where restaurant customers were encouraged to donate $1 (or more) when ordering tap water (which is typically free). Messaging and design that is both relatable and realistic to your cause will create the emotional connections necessary to take your movement to the next level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Snapchat’s navigation and design is tailored for Gen Z – the mobile-first and mobile-only generation, but Millennials and Gen Xers are also becoming more active on Snapchat.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Less than 1% of the users of most social Web platform create original content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Instead of designing programming and then seeking out audiences for it, we identify communities and then develop programs that are relevant to their assets and needs. It's pretty simple.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

And I know there has to be some great apps out there specifically designed to help young adults like her organize and communicate. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad?

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

And I know there has to be some great apps out there specifically designed to help young adults like her organize and communicate. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Since our outreach efforts focused on providing nonprofits with social media resources, email templates and content such as a video PSA for use on their homepages, it would seem those efforts paid off when it came to driving traffic. Traffic sources to the Give to the Max Day webpage on November 16. 79 percent of respondents were female.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Toronto, Ontario: Graphic Design Hacks for Nonprofits. Victoria, British Columbia: How to Choose a Content Management System for Your New Website. Beirut, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. Melbourne, Australia: Content Marketing for NFPs: Get Results! Monday, April 13, 2015. Tuesday, April 14, 2015.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. MOTHER NATURE. THREE GENERATIONS.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Nell and the Underground Librarians are passionate about helping people see the relationships between media artifacts and lived experience in the city, and they spend a lot of their time soliciting artworks and publications from unlikely corners to flesh out their collection and honor the diversity of content production around Chicago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

They designed and created all of the amazing pages and tools on GiveMN. Since our outreach efforts focused on providing nonprofits with social media resources, email templates and content such as a video PSA for use on their homepages, it would seem those efforts paid off when it came to driving traffic. Social media strategy payoff.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. Learning Science by Design. So much of the project was really about convening social groups and we see it continuing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

Range is designed to be a tool for "referrers," meaning people who connect youth and families to social services. Jessica Pérez Blasko, children and teen services manager at the Lancaster Public Library , posted a flier about Range on the library's community bulletin board. How Range Works. Android devices.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent. Everything about the event--from the time slot to the tone of the content to the music played--was designed for that audience. Performances just for teens.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Eye-catching and already popular, they are shareable by design. And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. A rapid response will also give your content more time to get noticed.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We focused more on design. We collaborated with community members to source content and develop the show.

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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. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. Sixth, you need other people to help you.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. I am available for consulting and strategic development, and creative design and leadership of exhibition, technology, and museum planning projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. What unique design elements make Community Science Workshops work?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 23, 2023

If your nonprofit has a wide or diverse audience, it can be challenging to figure out how to design your website in a way that appeals to the majority of your online community. Adjust your content strategy to appeal to users’ needs. Visitors can choose whether they are a parent, teen, educator, alum, or supporter. Landing pages.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. There are two aspects of Side Trip that really stand out: the immersive environment and the design of the interactives. The experience was comfortable, diverse, authentic, content-oriented, and deep.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. But during the weekend, Ze gave a couple talks that opened up new pathways for me, especially around designing participatory experiences that spread and grow. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, because of their social content, they are good places for community dialogue programming and comment boards (for example, consider the Levine Museum of the New South's extensive use of sticky notes and talking circles). Balancing multi-vocal content with a comprehensive narrative can be tricky. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This chapter explores the difference between connecting with new people by building new doors vs. connecting with new people by changing the content of the room. Think of the Subjects to Change teen program, or the free lunches at the Cleveland Public Library. There are doors through which people enter your room.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It’s got style, a strong brand, and growing content. 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.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. In the Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content? MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. Give people the exhibition but not the debates about content development. How do we resolve this? This approach is straightforward.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I designed electricity workshops for families.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the content in the museum? First, museum content. Who controls the meaning making?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. " Theres a "Teen Grid" that eliminates this completely.

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