Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I've been writing about online contests that use social media and crowdsourcing techniques. Global Giving will vet contest applications to ensure they meet the requirements — for example, grant proposals may not contain profanity or involve political advocacy for a particular party.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

There are other examples that I have discovered this summer on my travels in corporate social responsibility, stories born of inspiration, imagination and a desire to drive social change. Some favorites: Daniel Lee, Levi Strauss Foundation – Former divinity school student not advancing social change in HIV/AIDS.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. In the best examples, visitor comments were not only displayed but integrated back into the exhibitions themselves to make the "museum voice" more inclusive. One such example was at the New York Historical Society's exhibition Slavery in New York.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. Maxine had some pragmatic suggestions from her work at DOD for agencies wanting to experiment and explore social media. Electronic Petitions: to allow people to voice views on specific issues. State Dept ?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Social Good Shark Tank Speaker: Peter Panepento, Principal, Panepento Strategies. If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

We first met in Washington DC through a mix of social and professional circles. By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. Let’s face it – people like to be social and have a drink.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I asked them to take the social object challenge - to talk to a stranger, get two strangers talking to each other, and create an object to get strangers talking to each other without their intervention. They exploded, speaking all in one voice: "I don't even like ordering food in a restaurant." "I

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

One of their key objectives is address issues that affect teens and give them some tools to negotiate them. If so, what are some of the most important things you add to your social impact games that most game design studios overlook? This audience spends a great deal of time online, often playing games.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings). And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness. Be personal.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Lean on your team captains.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. A community provides insights.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

In this age of cheap real estate, it's interesting to imagine what a museum could do with a short-term rental of a public storefront focused on creative weird social experiences. The room was suddenly and incredibly buzzing with hundreds of voices, hundreds of people giving each other ideas.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I knew how to be assertive and social in small settings like my museum but not in larger groups. There is lots of room for new voices online. The blog started with a conference experience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

You don't need an entire gallery to frame a social question, but you do need to think about how the question or questions will be designed into the experience for maximum impact. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

There is no dissonance between the museum’s formal voice and laminate and the visitors’ pens and paper. 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. We’re all together, man. There were several comparably ingenious interactive experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more. Charlene Li's latest slide deck about engagement, relationships, and social media. Are social networks and social networking impairing our ability to learn? Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. Good Reads: Online. blog here and here.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2017

Although their power may be limited as adolescents and young teens, their habits will become increasingly important as they enter the workforce and explore their ability to make an impact on the world around them. High-impact, high-contrast color and design engaged younger audiences right away even in their noisy social media timelines.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. 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. Kishshana: Go ahead.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Stories that honed in on a state’s efforts to block our freedom to vote had people paying attention, driving up engagement on social channels. For example, Mother Jones ’ investigative story on Kentucky’s drastic reduction of polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods was shared widely on Facebook (320,000+ shares).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Bringing in Global Voices Does your collection come from far-reaching lands?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start working the social network sites. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. At the Spy Museum, for example, we launched podcasting in the fall and committed to monthly half-hour episodes.

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Museum Advice Interview Web 20

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. We are here to talk about the next wave, what are those emerging trends in nonprofit social media marketing. Julia: around social media disinformation.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When you work in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) like I do, there’s a lot to be happy about. There are a lot of innovative initiatives out there, for sure, aimed at taking personal passion and amplifying it for the good of the social economy. Put simply, I am a huge fan. And guess what?

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