Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. 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.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. You may hear about Facebook, but if your audience is on MySpace, it doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put in.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. At the same time, from my background in the museum world, I’ve gotten to know some of these boards and board members and see how they operate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. this new medium, we should not control people's choices. Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see. New York Times article

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. A game like Climbing Sacred Mountain has a very timely niche. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. local time). Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. The only advice out there is to limit screen time. It starts in the home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. to post public events hosted by your organization under "Events I'm Attending" on MySpace and similar areas on other platforms.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her. It's very relational.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

You’re walking down the sidewalk in New York and passing by Macy’s. Time for a new #GivingTuesday? Each rose or carnation can include a gift card that tells a short story of how an extra $5 or $10 went to support domestic violence survivors or creating a safe space for LGBTQ teens. Do you hear the bells?

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Ideas Fundraising Strategy Gift 98

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Her thoughts, while controversial at the time, blazed the trail for future feminist thinkers. Roxane Gay.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

But there’s another kind of threshold fear I care about: the one that keeps museums from fully embracing and jumping into new ways of engaging the public, new ways of including visitors. We all have problems getting in the door—they’re just different doors. What does this “not sufficient by itself’ bit mean?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I was amazed by the number of conversations I had when I arrived at FreelanceCamp that went something like this: Me: Have you lived in Santa Cruz for a long time? Look at the number of views (how many times each has been accessed). How to Make it Great Hosting a meetup can cost you time and money. Other person: Oh yeah.

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A, and like Kishshana said a minute ago, we’d love to hear from you. But don’t do that right now because one of my best buddies, Kishshana Palmer, is here for beautiful Washington, DC by way of New York City, normally, right, Kishshana? Steven: All the time.

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Management Work Video Slides 87

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

We’re going to try and save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A, but we would love to hear from you throughout. She’s over Grants4Good, been doing this a long time, and is just really, really knowledgeable. I worked in that field for 20 years, and I was writing grants at times there too.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 97

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School. In contrast, The Public School has a democratic framework--anyone can use their website to propose a class she'd like to take or teach. There are terms like "cosmology of the intangible" that raise my high art hackles.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Personal Democracy Forum in New York – a conference about all things digital and democracy – now in its sixth year. He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times). How appropriate for this audience!)

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Grant Personal Reflection New York City 90