Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I hope the Foundation and its partners are successful in achieving their goals: listening to new s, providing means for isolated groups to get together, offering support for creative solutions "in world" that might transfer to "real life." The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Generation X is the most likely group to bank, shop, and look for health information online. And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). Tags: social media. What have you found that works?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. Sharing Authority.or

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Let's say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. Let's say you have a sincere interest in reaching and working with more ethnically, racially, and economically diverse audiences. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. YES students defy expectations.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Another quiet little secret is making sure you engage local Girl and Boy Scouts groups who are always looking for ways to engage in socially minded ways. Which group’s fundraising boxes come to mind? Here are some ideas on designing this from Pinterest boards on Valentine’s day tags. Partner with a Local Florist. Email campaign.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings. 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. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. conference audiences are ready to work (and play). Tags: professional development.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Which community?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

At the Exploratorium, people felt connected to the museum by their involvement in a group event; At AGO, they connected through personal expression. If only 1% of our audience wants to participate as creators (a generous estimate by Web 2.0 Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices usercontent. Is one of these better than the other?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. This is the key to any respectful solicitation for visitor input--that we think of them as part of us, rather than a class or group to be pandered to and dealt with. How often does your enemy acknowledge you?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. This is your opportunity to shine the spotlight on the good work your nonprofit does, not to fill your audience’s inbox with screens and screens of text (no one’s going to read that!). In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

Those institutions, as I talked about in Choosing, were mostly self-directed by the groups who wanted them. And they tend to be talking about preservation first, audience second, or now, equal roles. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2010

BrdsNBz is Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina’s (APPCNC) acclaimed sexual health text line for North Carolina teenagers, where we provide safe and accurate answers to teens’ sexual health questions via text message. I learned very quickly: Twitter is not the way to reach my intended audience.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Others create traveling exhibits that send their content to other institutions and audiences. You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. For the same reason we do so with individual classes or constituency groups in the real museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Focusing on youth audiences can lead to heavy and sometimes inappropriate self-censorship. The audio starts noisy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Do you want to offer audio or video programming to an international audience for free? Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Tags: web2.0 into their repertoire?

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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

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. We have a huge audience. I love a group of sci-fi nerds, exterminate, Daleks. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julia, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

The audience was also more male than female (60%, according to one estimate), certainly more liberal than conservative (at one point someone asked how many Republicans were in the audience and only 10 people raised their hands, out of 1000+!), How appropriate for this audience!) Tags: guest blogging.

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