Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2021

DoSomething Strategic conducted a study that showed 67% of teens and young adults have stopped purchasing, or would consider doing so, if a company stood for something or behaved in a way that didn’t align with their values. Content should propose ways Gen Z can get involved and take action. So how can you cater your message to them?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

Rather than following others on Sulia, users “Trust” brands that provide good content. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens? Related Links: Free Webinar on April 18: 11 Steps to Launching a Successful Social Media Strategy for Your Nonprofit. Sulia: The Hottest Social Network you’ve Never Heard Of.

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Media Cause

MAY 30, 2023

being the first to share with your followers a piece of breaking news) and creating content to coincide with these trends. #3 3 Use hashtags Hashtags will make your content more discoverable. This means keeping up with the latest happenings on TikTok (e.g. trending audio clips, popular videos to stitch, etc.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. Some of this outreach work is undertaken by the hosting library, such as updating web content and putting up flyers for patrons. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley.

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M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

When advocacy groups are successfully leading campaigns to censor and ban books that address race and racism; involve sexual content (e.g., stories about teen pregnancy); and feature major characters of color and/or LGBTQIA storylines, but those aren’t books that a child you know would read, will you speak up anyway?

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

Use Video People share video content two times more than any other type of content. Here’s a great example: “Did you know that 1 in 4 teens in the U.S. You can even repurpose this “thank you” initiative as content for GivingTuesday social media posts or emails. Solving this problem costs only $.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 10, 2023

This renaissance of the medium presents a fantastic opportunity for deeper content to be created and consumed by people interested in the nonprofit world. Podcasting is an incredible medium that was catapulted into mainstream audiences with the success of Spotify buying top podcasts and growth of podcast companies like Gimlet Media.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

The app’s current features include a home feed with algorithm-recommended content, a search functionality that allows users to find other accounts, an activity feed for users to see information on engagements with their posts and followers, and a profile for each user. What is Threads and How Does It Work?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

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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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Notice how Whole Whale’s same content is now pushed into a footnote, while the full answer is provided. Again, Whole Whale’s content is shown as a footnote in the context of a full answer. As chatbots and voice assistants provide direct answers, people may not click through to content. Track upstream search-side metrics.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Notice how Whole Whale’s same content is now pushed into a footnote, while the full answer is provided. Again, Whole Whale’s content is shown as a footnote in the context of a full answer. As chatbots and voice assistants provide direct answers, people may not click through to content. Track upstream search-side metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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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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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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now we''re thrilled to share the names of our three judges and our first nine confirmed coaches for the Idea Accelerator: Judges : Deena Pierott , Founder and Chief Innovator, iUrban Teen James Rooney , Senior Manager, Microsoft''s Technology for Good Program Sonya Watson , Advisor, Tides Foundation Coaches : Britt Bravo , Big Vision Consultant, Big (..)

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. It’s easy to underestimate the importance of the table of contents — many reports treat them as an afterthought. However, you want the reader to know what they can find inside the report. Power Poetry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. ." - Rachel Cohen Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Is the need for more beds seasonal?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

With a compelling and content-optimized event website. Use social media to provide consistent campaign updates and fun promotional content. Social media offers the opportunity to post different kinds of content like photos and videos. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

If you are hungry for the content, see the above deck or these two curated collections of Tweets – one from David Neff and the other from me. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment. They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5 million views and asking was that success?

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Video: Content that focuses on the individual, not the organization. On a mission to decrease the number of teens smoking, the Truth Campaign chose not to talk down to teens or feature an adult telling teens not to smoke. Messaging: Speaks to how the individual is specifically affected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Helping Your Teen Give Back. More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. In 2015, Snapchat grew its 18-24 base by 56%, while its 25-34 year old users increased 103% and, most notably, its over-35 user base grew 84% according to comScore. Do not be lame on Snapchat.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . But, be sure to follow through in the email content on the urgency. Now , right now, and right away are great words that convey urgency without costing you a lot of characters. And don’t under-estimate the obvious: urgent. You can also use a deadline to create urgency.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

It would be foolish not to leverage a free marketing platform for your organization, but it’s important to keep in mind that posting content just for the sake of it isn’t going to produce results. You can use those statistics to tweak content accordingly, maximizing your results. Like any good game plan, you need a strategy.

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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. But I don''t typically hear this phrase deployed to argue in favor of a risky program format or an unusual piece of content. Instead, I hear this phrase used to defend traditional formats and content in the face of change.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

I spend a lot of my professional time trying to develop compelling opportunities for visitors to share their thoughts and connect with content that is deeply relevant to their immediate needs and interests. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Probably not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Qwerty Monsters are teens, age 13-17, who have gone mad for texting on their mobile phones. If your web site is due for a redesign, it is a good idea to think through a mobile version or content in the process. Also, there is secondary data to review and your web site analytics. Qwerty Monsters.

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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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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. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? And I know there has to be some great apps out there specifically designed to help young adults like her organize and communicate.

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