Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. It isn't entertainment.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!), In this way, exhibit designers were sometimes able to rely on visitors to determine the balance and spectrum of the exhibition. Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

French fashion designer and business woman Coco Chanel did much more than make clothing. She bucked traditional corset-dominated fashion and instead designed clothing for women that suited their new, post-War experience, pioneering and popularizing a new feminine style that was sporty, casual, and chic. Coco Chanel. Future Sheroes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Do y’all know what that is? What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Starting today and through the weekend, Twestival will rock on, with over 200 local Twestivals happening supporting tweetups to raise money for a designated local charity. Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Effective nonprofit web design matters more than ever before. This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Mobile-responsive design. Project Open Hand. High-quality visuals.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Because these services present individual feedback in a social environment and allow users to vote for their favorite suggestions or questions, the institution can easily see the prioritized desires and concerns of visitors without having to read hundreds of cards. Great user interface; see this in-depth article about its design.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Why would a museum want to invest in projects that connect a small number of people with the content?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

That’s what got me started, writing grants for environmental projects. So there are projections that a lot of foundations made about 10% in profits that year off their assets. MS means I have a Master’s of Science in natural resource management. And GPC stands for Grant Professional Certified. They went up quite a bit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

But exhibitions have the potential to use all those narrative tools PLUS objects, immersive design, and interactive experiences to tell stories. Strangely, exhibitions have become incredibly successful at creating immersive environments that tell broad conceptual stories--but not so good at telling tight, focused stories.

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