Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

What''s interesting is that ChronicleMe has partnerships with two nonprofits: the GLBT National Help Center, which works with gay and lesbian teens, and RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. What are your thoughts on social platforms that offer anonymity? Social Networking Web 2.0'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. Digital Networkers profiles African American heavy social networking site users. Twitter Poll - ???Which

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media. At its core, use of online social networks is still a phenomenon of the young. The percentage of boomers participating in social media is on the rise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.) Or publish them on your Web site and ask bloggers to link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

They specialize in providing innovative web-based products and services to help people and organizations all over the country achieve their philanthropic goals. Percentages were in the teens for those who heard about the event via television, radio, newspaper, Facebook/Twitter and friends). percent of respondents were female.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Leverage the power of your social networks to raise funds using this avenue. On the online web page, the organization points out five strategic priorities. Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Strategic Plan 2021-2025 Boys & Girls Club of America is dedicated to providing enriching after-school programs for kids and teens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. I like Jayne's perspective because she has been on the web since 1993 (although I got started online in 1985 with BBS, followed by WELL, Echo, and MetaNet).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Friendship Circle, has a web contest landing page that provides instructions on how to vote and a direct link to the Facebook app page. . For example, Friendship Circle, had a rallied at a Piston's Game in Detroit (see above video) and organized 3,000 teens to play freeze tag on Facebook to rally the vote. For example.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Oh the hours!!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" " Theres a "Teen Grid" that eliminates this completely.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. The fact is that program officers at foundations, boomers, and prospective employees are all turning to social networks to get a sense of your organization. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. These social networking spaces are becoming the place where a lot of (informal) learning by young people is taking place. There is a huge gap in understanding between what young people are doing with social media spaces and what adults perceive.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. With expertise in gaming, the social web, and collaborative exhibit development, I can bring new perspectives to the way you do business across your institution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

If you search the web for the organization, you won’t get to some academic-looking page in soft blues and statistics. 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. The way the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. The blog is about citizen-led social change efforts. $5 5 Philanthropist by Tom Williams is the CEO of GiveMeaning and writes about philanthropy and social networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. March for Women's Lives allowed people who couldn't march to post messages and stories on the March for Women's Lives' web site. Not listening is the root of most problems, personal and professional.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 A community provides insights.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? What makes Web 2.0 Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. Being on the web means being tracked, published, and spread around.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Their use of the web to connect independent artists all over the world was striking and very surprising. I guess the web has become part of the street too. In this age of cheap real estate, it's interesting to imagine what a museum could do with a short-term rental of a public storefront focused on creative weird social experiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Snapchat is a mobile app where users share snaps with one another, but unlike other visual social networks, the snaps disappear once they are viewed. You need unique, real-time content that appeals to Snapchat’s teen and millennial user base and that requires time and resources that many nonprofits simply do not have.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. as physical analogs to virtual community platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. 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 Set your high-concept goals and find a Web 2.0 thinking or applications.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Club Penguin is subscription-based and purely on the web; Webkinz requires the purchase of a plush toy (with an active virtual life). In January, there was an interesting CNET article about "Generation We" --kids growing up today who are constantly plugged in, not to their own personal gadgets, but to a larger social network.

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