Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better. Performances just for teens. The event was oversold, and participants raved about the experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. The CD features music and spoken word by Bay Area artists such as Aya de Leon and Michael Franti. Mary Oliver, poet.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. They thought, wouldn't it be interesting to create a game to get people in the library who may not have ever come?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. Here's a photo of one of the retired couples who came with their family to celebrate her 80th birthday in the exhibition. A DIY wedding! DIY Wedding Chapel.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. We start with the community and build to projects.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Between Two Ferns: The Movie Credit: Adam Rose / Netflix Zach Galifianakis' awkward celebrity interview web series Between Two Ferns might not seem like fodder for a full-length movie, but Between Two Ferns: The Movie goes double meta by presenting his success on Funny or Die as an insult to the actor's intention to host a "serious" interview show.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Women would be able to choose to speak to a female-presenting digital person about bra fittings or puberty problems, which could theoretically be nice for teens who don’t want to do that with a parent. Soul Machines’ Humans OS 2.0

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

These include the library’s Teen Squad, currently focused on coding and understanding and working with data; an active small business network; learning circles, essentially programs that are co-created and co-led by the community; adult education focused on workforce development; citizenship services and support; and English language learning.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

A cult-centric popstar thriller that quickly falls apart, Mark Anthony Green’s debut feature, Opus, features hints of ideas about journalism and celebrity that never fully come to the fore. Moretti may be an esoteric figure, but even his late-era-Kanye musings on genius and celebrity feel distinctly ordinary.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 15, 2025

10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You , written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is teen movie perfection , putting a '90s twist on The Taming of the Shrew with excellent results. But this immersive, moving film is more than just a gorgeous retelling of the story we know and love — it is an artistic triumph.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

The near-silencing of politicians, celebrities, and the national press corps led to much merriment on the service — see this , along with Those good tweets below, for some fun — but the move had other, darker implications. Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. Tanya Chen / BuzzFeed ). billion for a 7.73

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