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5 Social Media Stats That’ll Help Your Nonprofit Understand Audiences

TechImpact

And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true? Optimizing your content for various social platforms sounds like a good idea, but how can you make sure you’re optimizing it correctly? Additionally, the content that is published on this site garners a high amount of trust from its users.

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Teens As Free Agents. Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! ” Philantroteens.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven’t taken off. What phones and apps are they using? Qwerty Monsters.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers. My first experience was “What?”

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Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism

Judi Sohn

I just turned off her cell phone account because she was never using it. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She's very comfortable on the computer.

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