Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known.

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Myspace Teen Facebook Social Network 190

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. An overnight at the library, only 500 people – over 5,000 entered and many more were viewing the site etc. My focus is on how children learn science. Learning Science by Design. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. More here ). *

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

They launched an annual fundraiser and gift-collecting drive for the children's hospital in their community (in WA). It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over. Free Books for Kids! Look how cute these chimps are.

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Hurricane Haiti Music Children 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. An overnight at the library, only 500 people - over 5,000 entered and many more were viewing the site etc. My focus is on how children learn science. here was a kind of proof that you don't have to choose."

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Game Culture Change Museum 52