Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. You could see it change the way they were thinking – about themselves, their creativity, possibilities, and about their place in the world. It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday.

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Mentoring Los Angeles Student Network 137

Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

Is the fear of this situation preventing you from even approaching the topic in the first place? This begins with the CEO or president, who needs to articulate what she or he sees as the fundamental importance of dedicating staff time towards these goals. Pretty soon, you stop caring also. Sound familiar? Case Study: Power Poetry.

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Culture Data Create Case Study 36

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. We just want to hear from them, to make a place for them. Rowling’s website.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me. While now the blog's a big part of my life, at the time, it just felt like an experiment--a place for me to develop my ideas in a public setting.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2019

I hope to hear you articulate your thoughts in comments or on social. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business. But as a field, we don’t always articulate our work norms to each other. There are plenty. Today, I’d like to call out a huge one.

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Museum Accessibility Articulate Teen 29

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Diane told me several stories about teens who came in thinking of themselves as dumb but changed their perspective as their confidence grew in two areas they associated with intelligence--knowing science and being able to teach. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45