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HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Photo-Sharing Campaign for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. If your nonprofit works with teens and young people, this is a mobile photo-sharing community that you should definitely explore. You can share (and customize/edit/color) your photos to Twitter, Flickr, and your personal Facebook profile, but only if you have an iPhone.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

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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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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Member Round Up: The End is Near!

NTEN

Flickr: Sarah_Ackerman What a year, NTEN members! They were the recipients of a large grant from Google to enhance their ability to connect with teens and impact social change through mobile innovation. Teens and mobile - talk about a perfect match. NTEN members receive 10% off registration using the discount code "NTEN"!

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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job.

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2.0 at Work: Why You Should Use Flickr

Museum 2.0

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. So what makes Flickr so useful? Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Now I always use Flickr. Okay, pop quiz. Where do you go?

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”