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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment.

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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens. million revenue per year.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. There are lots of ways to collect data on the current practices of your organization- common best practices are surveying and interviewing.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

s Open Government Directive, which is expected to address how agencies should proceed on open data approaches, and on online public engagement. NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided.

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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

Have Fun - Do Good

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. I guess that explains why I've been hearing frogs at night since February) Frogwatch USA is a monitoring program that facilitates people's collecting and sharing data about frogs in their area.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Really interesting. No visible bylines.

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

Finally, some history museum staff members feel that they should not be dealing with contemporary social issues or that they are unable to facilitate dialogue on contentious topics. take photos of each other's kids), asking for personal data about children, or encouraging children to approach strangers (unsurprisingly).

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