Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens. Starting out as the most politically progressive age group in modern history. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends. What does this mean for your nonprofit? Don't wait 5-10 years to cultivate them.

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Wikipedia Teen History Poll 56

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You’ve probably heard of Facebook ; you may even have set up a group or a fan page there for your organization. Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy. Why would your organization want to have a presence on a social network?

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Community Myspace Social Network Demographics 100

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. A critical mass + diverse group of persons participate. I like the tag line for the TSA blog - "Terrorists Evolve. Tags: Government Strategy. Drinking from the Firehose? Threats Evolve.

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Government Open Strategy Teen 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I hope the Foundation and its partners are successful in achieving their goals: listening to new s, providing means for isolated groups to get together, offering support for creative solutions "in world" that might transfer to "real life." The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Virtual Platform Second Life Teen 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. We were looking for ways not just to provide more services to small groups of teens but to develop platforms where teens could support and serve each other. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive?

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Museum Teen Learning Music 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. It also creates a highly engaged group of employees and board members and attracts people outside of your organization to their cause. Visibility.

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Personal Create Photography Museum 50

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Both age groups also view the Internet as an important source of information. Tags: aarp age digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN Sami Hassanyeh.

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Generation Digital Internet Iraq 87

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

The library is run in the lobby of a theater company by a group of volunteers led by Nell Taylor. Whether a teen zine about punk music or a university journal, the Underground Library will collect it, catalog it, and share it in ways designed to help people learn more about their city and each other.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonetheless, you can still click through to each group's project page to see the real-time vote tally and I'm sure all 100 organizations are monitoring how others are doing to get out the vote. . It helps them motivate supporters to vote as well as helps organizations make real-time adjustments to their strategy.

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Contest Community Organization Giving 62

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Liberia Statistics Analysis United States 100

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

We now share our building with 6 other groups, each of them bringing science to the public in a different way. This space definitely looked like a third place this past Wednesday night when we hosted an overnight teen event designed to help teens see how they can make a difference in the world. What do you think?

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Place Discussion Columbus Italy 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Generation X is the most likely group to bank, shop, and look for health information online. And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). Tags: social media. What have you found that works?

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Social Media Media Social Social Network 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Another quiet little secret is making sure you engage local Girl and Boy Scouts groups who are always looking for ways to engage in socially minded ways. Which group’s fundraising boxes come to mind? Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags. Partner with a Local Florist.

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Ideas Fundraising Strategy Gift 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, they are commonly used by school and family groups as learning places. There is also the concern that visitors' contributions are more likely to be off-topic or comment boards used in entirely inappropriate ways, especially by school groups. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects participatory museum.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens. Unfortunately, most talk back walls don't support the grouping of visitor contributions or attempt to encourage conversational threads to develop.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. Also, the teen selections often featured teenagers interviewing visitors about their reactions to the pieces. Tags: storytelling exhibition design. I felt like a Midwesterner at the Oscars.

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Arts Museum Artist Audio 30

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Start sending personal emails to individuals, or at least smaller groups of people. Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout. Make it more personal to you (i.e. Don’t be shy in adding some images and GIFs in as well to make it more dynamic!

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Goal Fundraising Help Africa 310

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” If you start with an event, you may grow the relationship from one-off to a deeper connection with the group. Tags: web2.0

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

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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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation. She made the clear point that teens use social networks to connect with people they already know, not to meet strangers.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

At the Exploratorium, people felt connected to the museum by their involvement in a group event; At AGO, they connected through personal expression. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices usercontent. It's like the difference between helping to paint a community mural and writing your own name on the wall. Of course not. Not for us.

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Voice Create Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Pick a group of people to whom you would like to be relevant, and work with them to deliver programs that meet their needs. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Pick a specific community (or two).

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. This is the key to any respectful solicitation for visitor input--that we think of them as part of us, rather than a class or group to be pandered to and dealt with. How often does your enemy acknowledge you?

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Voice Museum Lesson Pledge 20

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Get Board members and key supporters to refer you to community groups that might give you a speaking opportunity. In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History.

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Strategy Business Fundraising Campaign 119

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2019

If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business. So much of our work is collective, a lifelong group project. Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB).

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Museum Accessibility Articulate Teen 29

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

Those institutions, as I talked about in Choosing, were mostly self-directed by the groups who wanted them. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion.

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2010

BrdsNBz is Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina’s (APPCNC) acclaimed sexual health text line for North Carolina teenagers, where we provide safe and accurate answers to teens’ sexual health questions via text message. While Twitter use is growing among teens, it’s still a social medium dominated by adults.

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North Carolina Community Teen Twitter 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook Picks: If you have joined my Facebook Fan Page , then you'd know that I run more like a focus group where insights and links are shared. Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. Tags: nptechtagsummary. The Year That Changed the World from Michael Meyer was just published.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Has your tagging system increased overall google hits for the museum? Tags: web2.0 into their repertoire? And my response.

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Museum Advice Interview Web 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." For the same reason we do so with individual classes or constituency groups in the real museum. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Many people mentioned the intelligent design/evolution debate, raising examples of angry homeschoolers and religious groups. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. and displayed in the museum.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

The ideas can be tagged and grouped into categories, and can be browsed in time order, by most popular, or by category. It may be useful if you want to ask "What kind of teen programs should our museum offer?" Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out marketing. Why let Whole Foods have all the fun?

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Comment Tools Museum Conversation 20

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). “huge forum success via virtual worlds (e.g. What do you think?

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Social Media Empowerment Case Study Congo 192

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I love a group of sci-fi nerds, exterminate, Daleks. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. The majority of TikTokers, they’re so young, they’re so spontaneous, they’re so generous with reactions, with shares, with tagging. I’d be very interested. Okay, great.

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Social Media Trend Video Marketing 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

I say all this not to harp on political correctness, but rather to point out that there seems to be a disconnect in the discourse about politics and technology with the actual grassroots, civil society groups who are so often organizing “on the ground”—and the very civil society groups who are doing the hard work of building democracy everyday.

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Grant Personal Reflection New York City 90