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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Who are the Millennials?

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The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens. The first generation in human history who regard behaviors like tweeting and texting, along with websites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Wikipedia as everyday parts of their social lives and their search for understanding.

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Private Foundations Are Now Eligible for Citrix Online Donations

Tech Soup

Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. The donation of GoToMeeting has enabled us to meet on a regular basis, keeping communication an important aspect of running our agency. " —Laura Pedersen.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Beyrouth, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Wellington, New Zealand: Learn to Sketch Your Ideas. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Warsaw, Poland: NetWtorek o kampaniach spo?ecznych

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Recognizing the power of the mullet, they put the business-end up front and the party in the back.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.