Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Double the Donation is only open to U.S. Donors can leave comments and share the crowdfunding campaign with their networks on social media. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens. The Rainforest Alliance’s virtual global house party, Guardians of the Rainforest , raised $44,579.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I called Pepsi out in a post called " What can Pepsi Learn About Crowdourcing for Social Good? " A representative from Pepsi, Bonin Bough, left a comment and I invited him to write a guest post about they are learning about crowdsourcing for social good. .

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Bonner decided to keep the library open and reassured the community that the library would stay open as a safe space and resource for the citizens of Ferguson.

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Disaster Library Support Hurricane 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. Naming fears, too.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Second, open-ended self-expression requires self-directed creativity. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

You talked earlier about the importance of flexibility and nimbleness on staff--the proclivity for people to be open and say yes to something new rather than throw up barriers. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do you think that people on social networking and media are just teens and college students? And, if they aren't blogging, they're reading, take for example the AARP Pet Pals Blog and the others identified in the comments here. Source: Karl Kapp presentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. Your comments are close to our heart – as an institutions we make decisions every day about how people are going to engage.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Second, open-ended self-expression requires self-directed creativity. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Cloud Network: A Tool for Open Data and Smart Visualisation Of Data. Beirut, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. The link need to be like so: Africa. Friday, April 10, 2015. John Kaama School.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Vancouver, British Columbia: Open Data for Nonprofits. Beyrouth, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. The link need to be like so: Africa. Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

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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. They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). The doors of SLAM are never closed.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

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. I have always approached blogging as an open invitation to "wander along with me" in a learning space driven by curiosity.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters.

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Life Teen Culture Attitude 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. You can't open yourself fully to the possibilities.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20

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. But during the weekend, Ze gave a couple talks that opened up new pathways for me, especially around designing participatory experiences that spread and grow. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The WOSU space is often open after the rest of the center closes and this space brings in a variety of citizens together to engage in a variety of conversations. note: I've written about innovation at COSI before here.) Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. The opening presentation showed kids talking about how they social media and adults misconceptions.)

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Finally, because of their social content, they are good places for community dialogue programming and comment boards (for example, consider the Levine Museum of the New South's extensive use of sticky notes and talking circles). I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The London Science Museum team designed an entire exhibition and then left a few open vitrines at the end for visitors to contribute their own toys during the run of the exhibition. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. Your comments are close to our heart - as an institutions we make decisions every day about how people are going to engage.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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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 Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

The exhibit opens. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. It looks like a traditional exhibit.

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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. Digital Collections comment wall. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

Last week, I wrote about the ways that dogs can be useful social objects --and you had lots of good comments and input. Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. But since the spaces are largely open, it feels threatening to approach strangers.

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

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. At that point, we opened three new locations: Sanger , Greenfield , and a new San Francisco workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood because the Mission has changed so dramatically.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. I invite you to do the same in the comments. Over three exhibitions at the LSM, 20-35% of visitor comment cards were deemed "relevant" to the exhibition.

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Voice Museum Lesson Pledge 20

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. Be open at times that your "community" is likely to come. And none of the museums in the park was open. Open your doors really wide. We are a work in progress and open to hearing opinions so speak up.

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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. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities. Most of the walls are clear, so the space feels open, welcoming, and safely overseen.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

learning to enter open, personal relationships with participants. In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users. She made the clear point that teens use social networks to connect with people they already know, not to meet strangers.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. Eventually, they had an opening for "Exhibits and Programs Associate"--a low-level jack of all trades position supporting the department. It was going to be developed by contractors and overseen by Anna.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

6 Comments | by Share Article in Guest Blogs , Social Networking Reader Comments (6) Justin, thanks for publishing this. I am sure that with Google now running the ad department on myspace the site will soon be filled with endless and messy ads, that will only open a new spot on the net for the next Myspace.

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

In his piece about interaction design for StoryCorps, Jake Barton comments that "for most people the value of the experience will be in making and submitting a story, not seeing it shared with everyone else." Next week, some comments on the final section of the book and the book overall. Not for us.

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