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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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How Nonprofit Leaders Create An Authentic Personal Brand on Intsagram

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. He gives you the inside story about the work of art.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

You’ve probably heard of Facebook ; you may even have set up a group or a fan page there for your organization. Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy. Why would your organization want to have a presence on a social network?

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. A critical mass + diverse group of persons participate. Electronic Petitions: to allow people to voice views on specific issues. I like the tag line for the TSA blog - "Terrorists Evolve. State Dept

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

Museum 2.0

Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. In the best examples, visitor comments were not only displayed but integrated back into the exhibitions themselves to make the "museum voice" more inclusive. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices inclusion visitors. Engaged and lively participants.

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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

Museum 2.0

This week, a look at the third section of Visitor Voices , the excellent book coedited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. At the Exploratorium, people felt connected to the museum by their involvement in a group event; At AGO, they connected through personal expression. Is one of these better than the other? Of course not. Not for us.

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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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