NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. The aim to raise awareness on the richness of world cultures and the opportunities that cultural diversity and social inclusion can bring to societies. Let us know in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. MySpace is primary used to participate in pop culture.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? It was a fabulous date night (check out said caricature), and the next day I was telling all of my friends – with and without children – that they had to visit Thinkery. Genius, Thinkery, genius!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. I agree that every organization, city, region, and culture have differences that make us unique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Last week, we had the final session of the “ Social Media Lab ,&# a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program , that was launched a few months ago. Tags: Movement Building Networked Nonprofit Networks Training Design. An Unanticipated Outcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” You may find some of these comments in the thoroughly engaging video as well, though some of the Ann’s more salient points didn’t make it into the footage. On poster children & social investment. “I Generic license ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Last week, we launched the first session of the " Social Media Lab ," a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. How do you do it?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Participants in the Summit recognized that if we can overcome challenges of verification, duplication, language, privacy, and culture, we will be in a position to empower the public to share valuable information with all of us. He also commented on the empowering nature of social media and its ability to let one individual change reality.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). They are frequently about real people's stories.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here. After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. So, now is the fun part.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

There are many folks who've written about the problems with "value" membership and have recommended that cultural institutions reorient toward offering "affinity" or "relationship" memberships. Every time a visitor signs up for a mailing list or leaves a comment at the front desk, he expresses his affinity for the institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? Kickstarter is a symptom of changes in donor culture.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Both of these designers presented compelling images and evidence from exhibit work and child development experts about the idea that you can make sophisticated, muted exhibits that help children slow down, focus, and enjoy themselves with interactive content. The researchers don't judge the content of the cues (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? Sometimes I think I have an important post, but it does not get comments, so I don't know what people think (and if they even read it :)). re online, you blog and you have young children. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. Tags: youth Talking to Strangers. Even though the primary threat to teens online is peer bullying, the media still often focuses on the dangers associated with interacting with strangers, especially strange adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Anyway, I stumbled upon a group on Facebook called " Email Bankrupcy " Most of my emails now are notifications that someone has posted, either something to do with facebook, or a comment on my blog, or a reply to a forum message I'd left, or something along those lines. A point that Jeremiah Owyang made about enterprise 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

The five types Elaine defines are: object-centered (focus on STUFF) narrative (focus on STORY) client-centered (focus on AUDIENCE, children's and science museums fall here) community (focus on SELF-EXPRESSION, community and cultural centers fall here) national (government-sponsored) Each of these types has its strengths and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

What can museums do now to increase the opportunities for minority children to have a “museum conversion” experience? If we miss this opportunity, we decrease the chance that this growing segment of the population will support museums in the future, or transmit a love of museums to their children and grandchildren.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

And even museums that don't have online social presences are sites for discussion, whether on TripAdvisor, Yelp, or other forums for opinion about cultural attractions. Read the comments. Tags: game visitors. around gameplay. You'll quickly see that a conversation is happening about your institution--and you do not control it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Enjoy the interview, and I (and the COSI team) look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments! We didn’t want to change the culture of COSI, which is a great asset, but how we act within that culture. They'll be checking in with the comments if you have any specific questions. I was blown away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, I had several "ah ha" moments and found a couple of connections for thinking about social media strategy - especially how we address culture change, social media measurement, ROI and the whole larger question of social media for social good. I invite you to share your thoughts and reactions in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

But today, a conversation about the often sticky world of cultural interpretation with chapter 20, "A Jew Among Indians" How working outside of one's culture works." As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

” People who donated enjoyed the opportunity for innuendo in the comments. This network map illustrates how the challenge spread from celebrity to celebrity by who they tagged. Sand for Palestine children. While a modest amount raised, Erin surpassed his fundraising goal by 50%. Blue it Up (Lung cancer). Rubble Bucket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others. He also tags us, likes our posts, comments, shares and posts on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Jeff Jonasen likes every single post we put on Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

This is true for all types of cultural institutions, from historic houses to zoos to art museums. While some places tend to attract families with children, others draw adults in couples or groups. Tags: mobile. But the vast majority of these companies and tinkerers make the same mistake: they focus on individual users.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum. In the case of the Children's Discovery Museum, for example, one of the disconnects with the Vietnamese community came from a fundamental difference in how the staff and Vietnamese parents saw competition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

FiftyCrows Foundation eschews these media politics and prioritizes social awareness by using arrestingly real, timely photographic images as a catalyst for education, cultural understanding and social action." I'd love to hear your examples in the comments! Tags: askbritt. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

Mitchell based her comment on, but I'm hardly surprised by her findings. It's interesting that science museums have started to gravitate towards "center" to convey interactivity, and yet childrens' museums are rarely called centers and don't seem to suffer under the Museum label (though drunken variations of the Funatarium abound).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! Feel free to add your ideas in the comments section at the bottom of this page or on the original post. dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy. We also reinforce the conference tag.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Currently, Lend4Health is facilitating loans for the "biomedical" treatment of children and adults with autism spectrum and related disorders. How will that change human culture?"

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I hope you'll share yours in the comments below (or on your own blog). And check out the comments. The contemporary culture of user-generated content is bringing self-directed learning to the forefront, but that doesn't mean there's money or traditional rewards to be found there. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 What's your goal?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place guestpost.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference. Same with Instagram Stories, just to kind of learn the culture and learn what works and see what you like and what you don’t. Okay, so AI and chatbots. Learn more.

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