Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment.

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Measure Data Facilitation Lecture 98

The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2012

Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Some things are still better if they are taught in person, and Skillshare facilitates that discovery process. Totally irrelevant, but went the extra mile! Skillshare Fills a Gap. Skillshare makes it easy to find or teach classes that are of interest to you in your local area.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three? There may be more teens in your community that need support. Consider hiring a facilitator. Work with the facilitator to plan the agenda. Plan the retreat.

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Beginner Nonprofit Goal Process 111

Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - I've narrowed it down to 7 ways to have fun and do good , that can be mixed and matched: Personal choices (e.g. With a group of mom-friends in St.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Change Teen Museum Arts 45

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens. Learn More About Apps for Good: Follow Apps for Good on Twitter. Follow Mobile Action Lab on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

It was a little strange, reminded me of citizen band or "CB" radios we used to use as teens in the late 1970's. " So, here's a tool that may (or may not) facilitate those conversations around "stuff" or tagged items. I used the metaphor of a school of fish swimming together in a tag stream.

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Wiki Teen Widget Reflection 50

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. Drinking from the Firehose? Active agency staff + sufficient resources are committed to the process. The recommendations receive ?

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Government Open Strategy Teen 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively.

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Knowledge Process Organization Share 101

The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

Both services let users send messages anonymously which facilitates cyberbullying to such a degree that the apps should be considered dangerous, the suit alleges. As early as 2019, TechCrunch wrote that the app’s model could be open to “teen misuse.” Worries that Yolo could be used for bullying have been around for years.

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Los Angeles Social Network Facilitation Integration 60

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. But people felt weird playing with her.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Their project this year is to prevent teen pregnancy by educating girls about: how to make informed choices, how to protect against the risks that come with being sexually active, and how to get support and resources along the way. Through this awesome after-school program, these young women are becoming true social change agents.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens. million revenue per year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

“Equity in Action”: MiSendero (Santa Barbara, California) MiSendero works to meaningfully integrate Latin American English learners into their school communities by facilitating mutual learning experiences for all students. Books N Bros (St.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Arts 60

VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every volunteer wants to feel valued, whether a senior or teen. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties. But it would be wrong to assume that only young volunteers are interested in mattering.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. His photo and commentary and use the hash tags facilitates visibility and connection to this audience target. This shot is a painting at a museum visited during a professional conference for museums. He gives you the inside story about the work of art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. I guess that explains why I've been hearing frogs at night since February) Frogwatch USA is a monitoring program that facilitates people's collecting and sharing data about frogs in their area.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is a personality test (based on real science) in which you can determine your own love style by answering a series of questions, teen magazine-style. But it's hard to explain to visitors who haven't played Apples to Apples, and if there is not a gallery host to facilitate, this one often sits unplayed. A DIY wedding!

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Participatory Museum Arts Blackboard 51

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. But people felt weird playing with her.

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Culture Game Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Rather than having our exhibit team walk through and fix things up every once in awhile, we wrote facilitation plans for the Memory Jars and other intensive participatory elements.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process. Build community.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church.

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Fundraising Giving Pledge Gift 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. It's also a reason that people will game with strangers; in that case, the games' rules form the partial barrier that facilitates social interaction. Step 3: a successful "five" is given. Why does this happen?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use staff and volunteers as monitors/encouragers/facilitators.

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Museum Myspace Social Network Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, some history museum staff members feel that they should not be dealing with contemporary social issues or that they are unable to facilitate dialogue on contentious topics. Balancing multi-vocal content with a comprehensive narrative can be tricky.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Really interesting. No visible bylines.

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Green Interview Community Share 20

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. The challenge is distributing these programs either to mass audiences or without heavy facilitation. How often does your enemy acknowledge you? Lesson 5: Talk-backs are discussions.

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Voice Museum Lesson Pledge 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. So I think the facilitation of that makes for a new museum. The conversation on the blog about Free at Last touched on that. And not think that we need to control the content but also your attention.

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Museum Change Puerto Rico Arts 20

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Do y’all know what that is? What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Now, the Times reports a third person, the Massachusetts teenager, may have also been involved in the planning of the attack, and that both the unnamed teen and Clark were jointly responsible for posting tweets to accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, and others.

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