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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to ask about 100 teens attending the Asian Liver Center's Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health this question directly. Tags: social media research snippets twitter. The Mashable blog raised the question, "Why don't they tweet?". International Youth Conference.

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FreshBrain

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills. Their website, freshBrain.org , provides a social networking based platform where teens can innovate, create and share using a variety of technologies.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

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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Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids. Tags: interview havefundogood guest.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Supports Bookshare!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We have already gotten close on trade books: juvenile and teen literature. Tags: print disabled print disabilities LD Encyclopaedia Britannica global library Bookshare. We're working very hard on textbooks. This agreement gives us access to the last major frontier of equal access: reference works.

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Bookshare Volunteers Are the Best!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With the addition of the book "Bright Wampum" to the collection today (September 7th), Bookshare is one of the few (if not the only) libraries in the world to have copies of all of Dorothy Lyons' novels for teens. Tags: volunteer blind library Lyons Bookshare. Bookshare Volunteers are the best!

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MontereyHerald.com : - Teen honored for simple idea

AFP Blog

MontereyHerald.com : - Teen honored for simple idea: "Philanthropy is defined in ways that sound as lofty as the word itself. Tags: NPtech NPYouthinPhilanthropy. Call it 'deliberative generosity' or 'good will toward fellowmen, expressed through active efforts.' Terrin Eisemann, 17, never heard of the word.

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