Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. s certainly educational to have a world where most of the content is generated by the users??? s educational.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. Still feel like your social media event content is still battling the other things on your organization’s plate? Anyone with an internet connection uses social media in one way or another–and that isn’t likely to change any time soon.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. 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.

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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). The best bets for getting Boomers interested in your content is to create blogs or videos that relate to the life or work-style of Boomers, Forrester suggests.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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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. Tags: truth commission Benetech Monrovia diaspora Sirleaf human rights TRC Cibelli Liberia. Liberian children.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, because of their social content, they are good places for community dialogue programming and comment boards (for example, consider the Levine Museum of the New South's extensive use of sticky notes and talking circles). Balancing multi-vocal content with a comprehensive narrative can be tricky. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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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.” refers to are dog tags with unique serial numbers on them that geocachers can use to track items easily online. The “travel bugs” that Seth! Projects game.

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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? Tagging makes photo search flexible and powerful. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Where do you go?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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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. There may be confrontations between the institutional listeners (often in marketing) and the content developers (who may not believe what they hear).

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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. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the content in the museum? First, museum content. Who controls the meaning making?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content? 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.

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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

JUNE 13, 2007

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. Malls offer changing, contemporary content. Malls offer competitive content. Plus, malls are cool.

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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. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Some were nonsensical, graffiti, or obscenities, but many were comments on the quality and content of the museum generally. In cases where the topic was controversial or the exhibition style risky, including a space for visitor talk-back ameliorated visitor anger about perceived biased portrayal of content. What were they about?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Vary your content on social media so it’s not Ask, Ask, Ask. Share success stories, news about your cause, content your donors will be interested in. In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout. Set your team up for success by building out a schedule of communications for both your fundraisers and your team captains, clearly noting the purpose and providing content for each message.

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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. Tags: participatory museum visitors. The irritating design?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. And not think that we need to control the content but also your attention. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion. The conversation on the blog about Free at Last touched on that.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Instagram is a unique visual content sharing social media platform with a fast-growing audience. Instagram is exclusively for image and video content. This means that Instagram is filled with compelling images and brilliant photography, and your content can be very interesting and engaging for your audiences.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2010

BrdsNBz is Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina’s (APPCNC) acclaimed sexual health text line for North Carolina teenagers, where we provide safe and accurate answers to teens’ sexual health questions via text message. While Twitter use is growing among teens, it’s still a social medium dominated by adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

But that would be a lot of content! Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. Tags: nptechtagsummary. And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. Take it all with grain of salt.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Are you trying to establish yourself as an up-to-the-minute news source on topics related to your museum’s content? Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates. Pod or Vodcast.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution? Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. 9, 2005.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

It's the one place where visitors can offer direct, open-ended feedback on the institution's content and services. The ideas can be tagged and grouped into categories, and can be browsed in time order, by most popular, or by category. It may be useful if you want to ask "What kind of teen programs should our museum offer?"

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

And sure, by some metrics, it's the biggest, most fully realized 3D world out there, full of user-generated content, sex shops and waterslides, and a whole lot of buggy, experimental experiences. content, events, and the extent to which kids really feel this is "their" world. It's just the most open.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There's a lot of great content in them. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. Tags: exhibition design professional development. and displayed in the museum. Management was horrified.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content. Okay, ephemeral disappearing content. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julia, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I think a great way to get people to better understand issues of the day relating to government, is to give then tools to themselves explore and interact with others around government content and data. The other contest finalists will also see their underlying content expand with time, but Datamasher will get geometrically (exponentially?!)

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