Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

For example, the San Francisco Public Library's website has a page that curates local services and resources on preparing for and dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake. After the shooting of Michael Brown by the local police, the city of Ferguson, Missouri erupted in chaos, violence, and unrest. Share with us in the comments.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

In addition, Andy Amsler, a volunteer for another organization in the bottom 30% of the leaderboard as of this writing, left this comment on a blog post about the value of the contest for their organization.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Waffle Shop (Pittsburgh, PA).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. We discovered that teens felt uncomfortable in the galleries because they had to check their backpacks and they felt the guards were watching them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.) MySpace Isn't Local (Except When It Is) " Friendships on MySpace aren't based across geographical lines. You are friends with people all over the country."

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Myspace Teen Awareness Interview 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. folk through comments, emails to me, and hallway conversations. The greatest gift you can give me is your thoughtful comments.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Carrie commented that many of the existing apps that do similar services are ugly and overly complicated and look childish. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. Crowdfunding Help. Of all the projects presented, the Detroit Water Project might be the most well-known.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Yesterday, I did a workshop with some local teenage girls in an after school program. And while most of them aren't likely to jump at the opportunity to talk to strangers in the near future, several commented that they'd like to try more "social engineering" experiments in their lives.

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Life Teen Culture Attitude 21

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. Our programs end up being the hub of the local science learning ecosystem--especially in communities where there isn''t a science center for miles in any direction.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The spot in our building that houses the studios of the local PBS station, WOSU, often is transformed into a third place. As I left the building I was met with over a hundred teens hanging out, laughing and talking in this space.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. There were some locals who stumbled in unaware, but mostly, this was an insider's event for people who know and love Ze's particular brand of emotional connection mediated through online participation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity. Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. puts it, “MySpace for inanimate objects.”

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. The story is about how Diane has run into trouble with the local planning board is described here on her GoFundMe page and has incurred legal fees. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

local time). " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. This inspired quite a lot of comments in the backchannel chat on Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As always, I welcome your questions and comments. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year. Since the activity is so simple to explain, we hired a local illustrator to create a giant mural to provide instructions in an IKEA dreamland style.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates. Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. What do you want?”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

If you like the post, please check out the thoughtful and complicated comments on the original post. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

Later, Elaine comments: Now, after researching the topic, I am less certain that broadening the audience for museums is achievable in general. These staff members are true representatives of their community, and help give the museum street cred with their local visitors as an acceptable and positive place to visit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. The Brooklyn Museum allows skateboarders to use their public outdoor space, much to the chagrin of some locals. Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals. Make food and drink and comfy chairs available.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Share your story, question, or comment below. Here are three reasons to find and connect with community-wide sources of data instead of doing it yourself: The data already exists. Check the census.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. They were in a playful mood, talking about the objects, playing the games, responding on the comment boards. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. Next time, everyone was talking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. How can you change or adopt aspects of other types without losing your focus or mission?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. After each short video, there was a single screen featuring a curator's comments (in text) about the importance of the object from his or her perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Sree struck up a conversation and learned that they had missed their chance to try out for labanda, a local American idol like show. @jettsierra @AndresCotri9912 @iamvannymedina @vega_tweets.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. Look at the comments. So I figured we’d spend some time today really kind of talking through that.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. This installation is the only one that cost more than $30--about $2,000 for the parts.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value brand awareness outside of local markets? Many museums run outreach programs at a variety of levels of local to global reach. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Let's look at these one by one.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Tom compared public perception of racial intelligence to that of sexual orientation, commenting that over the last thirty years, the left has advocated to have racial intelligence categorized as nurture and sexual orientation categorized as nature. I encourage you to add your own examples and thoughts on this list to the comments.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So send in your questions and comments. And I know some of my clients are very local. They do very local work, and it’s only the small local foundations that are interested, at least initially, in funding them. We will get all that good stuff in your hands just a couple of hours after we finish up here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Local community centers and destination attractions are different beasts. My museum can pursue radical collaboration because of our small size and local focus.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. I ran a takeover for Boston Public Schools around college month and of course, they are not going to give away the keys to all the teens. You can save them of course, your camera roll, and repurpose them in other ways if you want to. Okay, TikTok now.

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