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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If it were not for MySpace, my professional life no doubt would be much less fulfilling. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Stories about how MySpace would ruin your child’s life and put them in perilous danger were everywhere. They are all on MySpace.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

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. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Naming our goals and our culture.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

” 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. They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2).

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Using Social Bridging to Be "For Everyone" in a New Way

Museum 2.0

We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects. Programs that emphasize bringing diverse people together are more popular than those that serve intact groups.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

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 Lifeteen area. and displayed in the museum. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem.

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