Whole Whale
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. Power Poetry.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 21, 2006
I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money?
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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.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
If it were not for MySpace, my professional life no doubt would be much less fulfilling. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Stories about how MySpace would ruin your child’s life and put them in perilous danger were everywhere. MySpace is not dangerous.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters. It's easy to forget that teens are most comfortable being social with those they already know, not people who are unknown to them. This is a cultural thing. As you get older, you get more comfortable talking to strangers.
Museum 2.0
JULY 6, 2016
FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 2, 2012
I believe that, too, and I love working for an organization — Common Sense Media , an independent nonprofit — that’s dedicated to preparing kids to make the most of the incredible opportunities this networked culture provides us, while overcoming its potential pitfalls. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone?
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