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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Snapchat

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. In fact, Snapchat is giving rise to anew type of artist – the Snapchat artist. Share your first Snap to “My Story.” snapchat.com/add/whitehouse.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. What if I assigned you to make a video of your ideas about justice? And yet many museums are fixated on creators. It’s like cooking.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. What if I assigned you to make a video of your ideas about justice? And yet many museums are fixated on creators. It’s like cooking.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. Babycastles is New York’s first independent video arcade. It lasted for four months.

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

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” 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. Documentary footage and stories told through game present images of strong women of color. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. the ability to follow the flow of stories and information. Go read it. the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with. others toward a common goal.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

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Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. The CD features music and spoken word by Bay Area artists such as Aya de Leon and Michael Franti. Free Books for Kids!