Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. 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.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. 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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

Malls are safe, stimulating public spaces for casual social interactions. They provide entry points to a collection of discrete, varied content experiences. In most stores, you can “try” the content in some way without making a purchase. Mall content connects strongly to people’s lives. They are open to everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2014

By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. So this is where that leaves us : fewer people (at least teens) are reading for pleasure, and we can assume (like adults) that they are seeking information and stimulus elsewhere, probably through a mobile device. Writing for Mobile.

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