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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. If your organization is trying to reach teens, absolutely!

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

Museum 2.0

Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. An early talk-back in that conservation-minded exhibition asked, 'What can you do to help the environment?' Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices inclusion visitors. How often does your enemy acknowledge you?

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We purposely set a more conservative goal so that our staff could feel the motivating rush of achieving it, and then we could push to exceed the original goal. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout. Make it more personal to you (i.e.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation. 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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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

The Teen Party. based consortium of 31 leading international relief, development and conservation nonprofits focused on information and communications technology (ICT) and collaboration. Tags: edward granger-happ Mobile NPTech NTEN Communications. Are we paying attention? Read his full bio.

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Backwards Interview: My Advice for Incorporation of Web 2.0 into Museums

Museum 2.0

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Start conservative and build from there. Tags: web2.0 How can you avoid getting burned in this way?

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The audience was also more male than female (60%, according to one estimate), certainly more liberal than conservative (at one point someone asked how many Republicans were in the audience and only 10 people raised their hands, out of 1000+!), Tags: guest blogging. and disconcertingly white.

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