Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. and the ps3 tag. I'll also forward his post to some of the gamers I know by using 06-g4c tag and forwarding it to the games for change list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. it is grounded in both the virtual space and the real space. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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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. Greater generational differences appear when it comes to reasons for social networking and selecting virtual destinations. Tags: aarp age digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN Sami Hassanyeh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging. Click To Play.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

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. refers to are dog tags with unique serial numbers on them that geocachers can use to track items easily online.

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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. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. local time). local time).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Some projects engage a very small, well-defined segment of the community as partners in the process (such as the Wing Luke Asian Museum's well-documented community process ), whereas others invite open participation (such as MN150 , Tech Virtual , and Click! Tags: design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

In both MN150 and Tech Virtual, it led to us being more dynamic and flexible in our production of exhibits. But in the case of Tech Virtual, it also caused conflict as I tried to balance being a friendly, caring community manager with being the "boss" of the participatory process. Tags: professional development. Neither Click!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

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. The Signtific game does this virtually by encouraging players to respond to each other by "following up" on other players' entries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout. Try hosting a virtual “thank you card” evening where fundraisers get together to write thank you cards to their donors to share some love. Make it more personal to you (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. 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?” Tags: web2.0 marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? On MySpace, you are protected somewhat by the fact that you interact via a virtual rather than real identity. Tags: participatory museum visitors. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The irritating design? Or is it the stalkers?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

There are three key questions museum decision-makers should ask themselves in evaluating the value of virtual visitors: How much do we value outreach in our educational programming and content delivery? Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. SmallWorlds : While I'm on the topic of ning, this newest project from GlobalKids embeds a 3-D Virtual world inside a Ning site.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. Club Penguin is subscription-based and purely on the web; Webkinz requires the purchase of a plush toy (with an active virtual life). These virtual worlds are, as one father put it, "the cuddly G-rated version of Second Life."

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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?" They are spending more virtual time with the brand, and with real people associated with it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). “huge forum success via virtual worlds (e.g. www.publicmattersgroup.com/about.htm.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

That’s augmented reality and virtual reality, the holy grail of social experiences. Oh, this is a really good one, the 360 degree virtual tour. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. Another trend, interactive experiences through AR and VR. We couldn’t do tours.

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