Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project. You have been elevated by the opportunity to contribute to the project. Instead, they are participating in larger projects, joining the team, doing their part.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Elsewhere is another collection-based project, but in this case, the collection is the basis for artwork rather than the other way around.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project. You have been elevated by the opportunity to contribute to the project. Instead, they are participating in larger projects, joining the team, doing their part.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Tags: visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Not only did Jonathan Fanton himself want to stay in touch with project. Meanwhile over in the teen grid of Second Life, there was a listening party where teen were gathered to listen to the event and invited to send questions. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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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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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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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. They have the lowest online representation, 37 percent, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Tags: aarp age digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN Sami Hassanyeh.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

The Bellevue Sculptural Travel Bugs Project This summer, Seth! 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. what challenges came with this project.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Now, onto the links: If you have a great idea for a participatory learning project that uses digital tools, the MacArthur Foundation wants to give you money. I'm currently doing a project in Canada, and in my hunt for international social media statistics, I came upon this amazing Social Media Tracker report.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Sharing Authority.or

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Source: Pew and American Life Internet Project, Adults and Social Networking Use. The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g. Because of the incredible popularity of genealogy as an activity, history museums are also excellent places for visitor-generated or -supported research projects (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Tagging makes photo search flexible and powerful. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Where do you go?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. For some museum professionals and projects, this is a good thing--it "proves" that participatory design can yield products that meet institutional standards.

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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. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. The event was streamed into Global Kids Teen Grid Here's what the kids has to say and photos. That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. Media isn't just happening to kids.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

I saw teens and adults who sat and did this activity for 45 minutes and wasn’t surprised to hear that some people spend over an hour on it. A large wall featured a slowly undulating, multi-colored projection passing by, like the visual aftermath of an accident in a lava lamp factory. Projects design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

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. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 Step 3: a successful "five" is given. Why does this happen? It's not because the boardwalk is a social place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

He somewhat dodged the answer, saying that MacArthur wanted to learn how to work with virtual worlds, to convene people and to bring virtual projects into making real world change. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. and offered an analysis here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects. how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing? Neither Click!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Each of the projects profiled in this section offers visitors partial ownership in at least one of these categories.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. 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.

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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?” Projects participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What kind of projects or requests have they given the most to? Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. You can pay someone an hourly rate or a project fee and get the professional polish you need to power your campaign forward. Think about: Last year’s successes. What can you repeat? Your donors. Testimonials?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

It’s ironic, when you think about the great pains that museums and libraries go to to create spaces that are “teen-positive,” that malls attract kids effortlessly with fluorescent lights and lousy music. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Plus, malls are cool.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!), Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. Finally, there were a few examples of programmatic rather than exhibition-based projects. I invite you to do the same in the comments.

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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. Leaders often look at their best staff, and think, ‘hey let’s put them on this project.’ Museums rarely have the funding to replicate positions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week. Projects working in the U.S. Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. Tags: nptechtagsummary.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. In their Stories Highlights, they might save some key footage of the planting Stories into their ‘Trees’ highlight, so that supporters can view it alongside images of all their other tree planting projects. Who is Instagram’s audience?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. 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. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Why would a museum want to invest in projects that connect a small number of people with the content?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. 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.

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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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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

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. The Duo Duo Project Red Envelope Fundraiser, doesn’t mean anything to you. Okay, TikTok now.

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