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Tuck shop 2.0: How to promote positive entrepreneurship skills for teens

The Next Web

Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion' Young European entrepreneurs are making waves too, like Jordan Casey from Ireland, who announced his third business last week and is still only 14. We also started. This story continues at The Next Web.

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Limbix releases clinical trial data on a self-guided mental health app for teens

TechCrunch

SparkRx is a self-guided therapy program for teens run entirely on a phone. . SparkRx, which is designed to help teens manage depression, is the company’s first product to be clinically evaluated. The app encourages teens to take note of their feelings, and schedule activities that leave them feeling better. .

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Creating The Village It Takes To Do Coalition Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin’s TED talk about creating a national Crisis Text Line for teens, I knew I wanted to be a part of this effort to reach teens using the medium they now love most – SMS. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. Get together in person.

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Grow Your Annual Fund with Targeted Appeals (It Works for Us!)

sgEngage

For example, the internal theme of our summer appeal was “How ASM Prepares Teens for Life After High School.” Over three weeks, we highlighted our college readiness program, then our career exploration program, and finally wrapped the appeal with an email about how our summer programs prepare teens for life’s next steps.

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Want to increase your brand’s relevancy? Partner up with tween YouTube stars

The Next Web

These teen YouTube stars, like iJustine , Bethany Mota , the Janoskians , Hunter March and others, create content on a daily, weekly or monthly basis that resonates with teen audiences across subject areas covering everything from gaming to beauty. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s Investigations'

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers have known for years

The Verge

But for researchers who study social media, the internal study that sparked the controversy was mostly confirmation of what they already knew — that Instagram makes teen girls feel worse about their bodies, and that they blame the platform for anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts.