Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In January, 2009, the Pew and American Life project released a report on Adults and Social Networking Use mentioning that more older adults have set up profiles on social networking sites, but that younger people more likely to be using social networking sites regularly. Connie Reece, co-founder of Social Media Club International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. to post public events hosted by your organization under "Events I'm Attending" on MySpace and similar areas on other platforms. So, do I use any OSN platform?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. We didn’t want to build MySpace.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

puts it, “MySpace for inanimate objects.” For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Nonprofit Tech for Good began as a “Nonprofit Organizations” Myspace Page in 2005. Google+ is less valuable that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but overall the site is more valuable than most nonprofits realize in terms of referral traffic and SEO. Google+ made the cut for another year. 4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. The irritating design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Digital media is being shaped by the private sector (YouTube, MySpace, etc). "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. Other links: MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning and Media Site. The event was streamed into Global Kids Teen Grid Here's what the kids has to say and photos.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

People like to talk about and show themselves--that's why MySpace is so popular. site RedShiftNow , visitor content not only populates but steers the experience. But they may attract different people. One of the things that made In Your Face so overwhelmingly successful is people's natural self-interest.

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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. Do your MySpace friends come to museum programs? Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

So we will spend Y to make short videos on our own and post them on video sharing sites like YouTube instead." Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. We can't afford X, but we'd like to do this and try to reach 1,000 people with our message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

These themes of race and class were not lost on ethnographer danah boyd , who gave one of the most provocative presentations of the conference – quoting both Habermas and inner-city teens! She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of “white flight” from MySpace to Facebook.

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