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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Ready to enter? a) In General.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." And most contemporary museums are not only places for information-seeking. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Many of the teens write, "learn with us.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. So many science and children’s museums—client-centered places—feel the same. He loves publicity. It’s people who are committed to collections and feel like that is threatened.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

As the first woman, first Jamaican-American, and the first Indian-American attorney general in California, Harris secured her place in political history. Elizabeth Cowell was British broadcaster and the first female announcer to grace the television airways for the BBC in 1936, just before the network launched its television service.

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How the Media Covered Voting Rights in 2020

M+R

For example, Mother Jones ’ investigative story on Kentucky’s drastic reduction of polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods was shared widely on Facebook (320,000+ shares). Outlets like Vogue , Teen Vogue , and Vanity Fair were once considered lifestyle-only publications, catering to an audience that enjoyed light-hearted content.

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