Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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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.) " Invite friends to post comments to your blog; visit your friends' pages and leave relevant and valuable comments; host events; and continue to add friends.

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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. I firmly believe that a community-engaged museum is a web of interactions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. Carrie commented that many of the existing apps that do similar services are ugly and overly complicated and look childish. Apps can help make the world just a bit more accessible.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). And if you're looking for feedback and contributions from the Boomers themselves - like comments or criticisms - make that process dead simple.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I like Jayne's perspective because she has been on the web since 1993 (although I got started online in 1985 with BBS, followed by WELL, Echo, and MetaNet). She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. So, do I use any OSN platform?

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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. But on the web, it's even more important than in a museum. You can see more comments from participants here and here and see a photo set from one participant here. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. When we allow visitors to add their own bits to exhibit labels or react on the web, we often ask them to add their name. In the Web 2.0 I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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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. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. local time).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Commenting and review functionality. web applications have been a tough sell in my department. Where do you go? It's (mostly) free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

What follows below is no doubt incomplete and I sure I've gotten ages wrong too -- so please make additions and corrections in the comments. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. who started blogging about a year ago to write about associations and web 2.0. Blogs by Gen Y.

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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. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. Geocaches cannot be "commercial" so one has to be careful about over-promoting on the web site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. March for Women's Lives allowed people who couldn't march to post messages and stories on the March for Women's Lives' web site. One commenter wrote, "I hate these commercials." The Yes We Can Obama video.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

If you search the web for the organization, you won’t get to some academic-looking page in soft blues and statistics. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. So when it comes to Web 2.0,

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 23, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore these tips for developing useful and relevant personas that help you approach web design and user engagement more strategically: Research your target audience. Understanding who shares and comments on your posts can give you a better idea of the type of content your online audience is most interested in.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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. Their use of the web to connect independent artists all over the world was striking and very surprising. I guess the web has become part of the street too.

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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." If only 1% of our audience wants to participate as creators (a generous estimate by Web 2.0 Not for us.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. There are few, if any, ways to write back and continue the conversation with the visitor who commented. In other words, comment cards aren't effectively organized for use. Enter the internet.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

That wasn’t necessarily the point at the time, but even the evolution and relation to Web 2.0 I know you have been thinking a lot about the Web, Web 2.0, One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. is very interesting.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Set your high-concept goals and find a Web 2.0 Many museums are using Web 2.0

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

You can use in-app analytics, add more information like a contact number or web address to your profile, and access Instagram’s advertising features. Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. An active account that interacts with followers and replies to comments. Who is Instagram’s audience?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

With Beck Tench, their in-house Web 2.0 Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Does Jamal's comment enrich the primarily Minnesotan readers of Science Buzz? So what's it worth? The short answer is pithy: it's different for every institution.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Club Penguin is subscription-based and purely on the web; Webkinz requires the purchase of a plush toy (with an active virtual life). If only museums' blogs got such a wealth of poorly spelled comments. " If you want to see where the real action is, waddle over to the igloo. And they're booming. You get a feel for the emphasis on new!

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! Datamasher is a web site where anyone can "mash-up" two sets of Federal data about US States to create a custom indicator, which can then be viewed by all on a State-by-State map or chart.

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