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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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Free Webinar: Using Mobile Technologies for Outreach and Education - July 16

Tech Soup

She will interview Adam Shyevitch, Teen Initiative Director at Boston After School & Beyond , who will share information about how their organization is using mobile technology for their outreach efforts. Tags: E-Learning Online Seminar Telecom Services Training Training. read more.

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How Nonprofit Leaders Create An Authentic Personal Brand on Intsagram

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. He gives you the inside story about the work of art.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

When evaluating your community, some of the most influential items to consider regarding social networks include: Age: Facebook users can skew older than MySpace; many organizations in the UK have had great success joining the ecosystem on Bebo to extend the opportunity for teens to reach out for social services in a private way.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. Electronic Petitions: to allow people to voice views on specific issues. I like the tag line for the TSA blog - "Terrorists Evolve. Tags: Government Strategy. Drinking from the Firehose? State Dept ?

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

Museum 2.0

Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. In the best examples, visitor comments were not only displayed but integrated back into the exhibitions themselves to make the "museum voice" more inclusive. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices inclusion visitors. Engaged and lively participants.

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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

Museum 2.0

This week, a look at the third section of Visitor Voices , the excellent book coedited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. In these and other examples (the Walker Art Center's new teen site comes to mind), the museum specifically sets up a site in a way that is not most comfortable, useful, or familiar to the museum staff. Not for us.

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