Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

Like many kids with autism, she needs a lot of structure in her life. I rely on technology to keep my life organized. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad?

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

Like many kids with autism, she needs a lot of structure in her life. I rely on technology to keep my life organized. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad?

Tech 100

Tech Calendar Ipod YouTube 100

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

Watch this adorable video on TakePart.com of 5th Grader, Damon Weaver, interviewing President Obama. How awesome is it that the adults in his life gave him the support, skills and encouragement he needed to have this experience? If you have a child in your life who wants to make the world a better place, how do you support him or her?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. Images bring life and interest to anything. This means that the rules for consent apply not only to photos, but also to videos and audio recordings. How to Get Consent for Photos, Videos, and Audio.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Whos on Second Life?

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Second Life Life Social Media Advocacy 28

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. The Institute found that mobile phones can increase homeless teens' opportunities and help them stay connected to caseworkers, shelters, potential employers, and support networks. Video: Comcast Newsmakers.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. This idea is inspired by Save One Life, Inc.’s s At Home Everest Challenge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

No matter what the future has in store, we need to prepare ourselves and our kids with a shared vernacular and a core set of life skills that transcend the technology flavor of the week and reinforce critical thinking, kindness, and responsibility. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone? Still the stuff of science fiction for most.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Media: If there is any possibility that volunteers will be photographed by a news outlet or by someone on your staff for use in marketing materials, have volunteers sign a media release that covers video and photos. Does the parent have to accompany them?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

There’s so much ground to cover when you’re planning an engagement strategy for much of your target audience’s life. Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. Create online resources for them: how-to videos, blog posts, answers to frequently asked questions. Here’s where to focus at every stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues.

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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. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

We have talented members of the team that whip together graphics and even videos to promote these! It was fun singing along in the Bookshare holiday video. Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life 9. The One Year Devotionals For Teens 29. Where Love Rules 6. Twin of Ice 25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do you think that people on social networking and media are just teens and college students? There is the well-known YouTube user, Geriatic 1927 who creates videos as a memoir of his WW2 days and has over 45,000 subscribers and 2 million views. Source: Karl Kapp presentation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Josephine Dorado , professor at the New School and live events producer for This Spartan Life, a talk show inside the video game Halo. Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Reality Bytes: Eight Myths about Video Games Debunked.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Then you’ll create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slide show to enter the challenge and win prizes donated by our sponsors. Read about how your community can breathe new life into an old story from Connecting Up, our Australian partner. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Contest is here! TechSoup for Libraries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to generate 15-second videos and host live streams. At first, the ability for users to quickly gain fame through their videos is what made the app so appealing to teenagers, but for-profit companies caught wind of the speed at which content could go viral and wanted to get in on the action.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. This idea is inspired by Save One Life, Inc.’s s At Home Everest Challenge!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

Within 24 hours of the news, the EMPSFM staff hosted a tribute event at a local music venue and mounted an exhibit of Jackson's iconic glove/jacket along with archival concert video in a free public area (appropriately called the Sky Church). Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube. Source: Pew and American Life Internet Project, Adults and Social Networking Use. Is it only younger people who are using social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

AARP did a great short video on Rick. The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA. But in my personal life, my wife constantly wows me. None of what he does is about him, ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. 15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. "Do young people have email accounts?

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

We'd previously worked on games of this scale, had used video in previous projects and had produced our own stories in animated and game form, but this was the first project that brought all these things together on such a grand scale. One of their key objectives is address issues that affect teens and give them some tools to negotiate them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it. The John D.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2). JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Through a fish bowl blog, we can learn more about the everyday life of the institution and how staff contribute to the Walker's mission. Reggie/education was an early adopter but we hope to see our film/video and performing arts departments in full swing by end of summer. Through the glass, we can watch the fish swim, eat, and breath.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There's a new Pew Research report on teens and gaming showing that 97% of American teens play some kind of video games (console, online, mobile, etc). Like last year's World Without Oil , Superstruct will invite players to imagine life in a dramatically different but highly plausible near-future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

million challenge videos. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. Look no further than the Ice Bucket Challenge , which raised over $200 million worldwide last summer. Co-Disruptor: Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. In the end, this generated a substandard product for the client, and disappointment for the teens. Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I've always had confidence that I can make the life that I want, and I credit them for empowering me with that perspective. But internship after internship didn't live up to those expectations. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25 gives a teen girl the gift of feeling amazing about herself. a teen girl with a huge, confident smile. Call and thank your best donors or send them a thank-you video.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, poet.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

How is the character’s life different now? Finally, some folks will try to write appeals based on a video transcript. The best stories contain multiple news values. This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face. Describe the conflict. What steps did the character take? Were there setbacks?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives. Are they learning and sharing what you hoped?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I hear a lot of terminology systemic change, change throughout the community that’s going to last beyond the life of a grant. Two, you might be invited to present to a funder, maybe put together some PowerPoint slides or have a short video. You know, the iPhones have gotten phenomenal now for video shoots. Stay healthy.

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