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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is primary used to participate in pop culture. If your organization is trying to reach teens, absolutely!

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. This is true for two reasons.

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Henry Jenkins discusses participatory media in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. ve created something that has some impact in the culture. Technorati Tags: VECoP More here on the event. Is it just a fad?"

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

NTEN

There are many dimensions to the digital divide, including income, gender, age, geographic location, culture and race. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Tags: aarp age digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN Sami Hassanyeh.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

It was a rare moment where the cultural and historical importance museums tend to bestow on all exhibits was sought and appreciated by the public. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. . Because I know their work first-hand, they got my vote !

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

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 ). Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects participatory museum.

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