Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the content (which most people skim in about 13 seconds or less). For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I don''t know if they need grounding in core content or exposure to new practices. An organization with an public engagement mission has very different needs than one with a mission that focuses on original research. Instead, I hear this phrase used to defend traditional formats and content in the face of change.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

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. The school doesn't have public wifi, so that will help. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? We will turn parental controls on. You can do better than that.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

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. The school doesn't have public wifi, so that will help. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? We will turn parental controls on. You can do better than that.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

Within 24 hours of the news, the EMPSFM staff hosted a tribute event at a local music venue and mounted an exhibit of Jackson's iconic glove/jacket along with archival concert video in a free public area (appropriately called the Sky Church). Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? This Matters." Probably not.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

Referrers include staff from nonprofits, community centers, public libraries, and other organizations that work with youth during the summer months. Many larger public library systems (such as Washington, D.C. This post was written by Ginny Mies, senior content curator at TechSoup. "They actually talk to nonprofits!"

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

It’s a great project that allows us to keep researching and creating content around our collection, and we need about $10,000 per year to produce it. 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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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Nell and the Underground Librarians are passionate about helping people see the relationships between media artifacts and lived experience in the city, and they spend a lot of their time soliciting artworks and publications from unlikely corners to flesh out their collection and honor the diversity of content production around Chicago.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This chapter explores the difference between connecting with new people by building new doors vs. connecting with new people by changing the content of the room. Or the promotores at the Waukegan Public Library sharing their offerings with Latino immigrants? There are doors through which people enter your room.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Would you post your entire collections database as a downloadable file on the public website?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

The coverage has focused, however, not on the bulk of content in the report but on the Commission’s controversial recommendation to ban Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from holding future political office. The TRC’s final report has been covered extensively in the press. Head office of the TRC in Monrovia, Liberia. Liberian children.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? b) Content. As part of the prize notification, the winning individual or group will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and a publicity release (where legal).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

worked with the city of Bellevue, WA, to incorporate geocaching and user-generated content into their public sculpture exhibition to put a new spin on the concept of “public art.” explains: The city of Bellevue, Washington holds a public art sculpture exhibition every couple of years. Traveling public art!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. "Do young people have email accounts?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Be personal.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. " Theres a "Teen Grid" that eliminates this completely.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. Museum emails are almost always shouting. But what if you asked questions instead? Are they learning and sharing what you hoped?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Subject To Change is written by a recent Yale alum, Vanessa Mason, who is just starting out a career in public health. Enviroblog blogs about latest science and news on toxins in your food, water, and air, and what government agencies should be doing to protect public health. Amanda Hanley is the editor. Media Awaken. Maria R.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25 gives a teen girl the gift of feeling amazing about herself. That was me.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

While there is much talk about supporting participation and making museum content relevant, the word "community" hangs like a poorly-defined carrot on a shtick. The general public is not a community. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It’s got style, a strong brand, and growing content. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

I saw teens and adults who sat and did this activity for 45 minutes and wasn’t surprised to hear that some people spend over an hour on it. In the more formal poster gallery, I saw many pierced teens listening unironically as their parents enthused about Jefferson Airplane.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Urban Decay") that encompass a wide variety of content. And you can make it private or public, flexibly. This isn't a set of proprietary or stock images. It's photos taken all over the world by pros and amateurs.

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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. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum. Many people focus job application cover letters and interview content on what they've done so far.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” I don't think so.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

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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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