Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Using it an internal training, it is important to have someone with hands-on experience in each group and this spreads the organizational learning. . International Youth Conference. This is the first time I ran it for people all from the same organization, with a limited amount of time, and mix of experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

SparkRx is a self-guided therapy program for teens run entirely on a phone. . SparkRx, which is designed to help teens manage depression, is the company’s first product to be clinically evaluated. The app encourages teens to take note of their feelings, and schedule activities that leave them feeling better. .

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

SEE ALSO: Why teens are telling strangers their secrets online In fact, of the 970 people between ages of 13 and 28 surveyed for the Made of Millions report, 431 of them were in some phase of what the researchers described as a mental health "journey." Chatterjee is a volunteer advocate for International OCD Foundation.)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. The “aging up issue is real,” the researcher wrote in an internal memo. All social media companies want teens to use their services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Amnesty International USA :: @ Amnesty. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. American Rivers :: @ AmericanRivers. American Solar Energy Society :: @ ASES_Solar. Americans for the Arts :: @ Americans4Arts. American Wind Energy Association :: @ AWEA. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka. Autism Speaks :: @ AustismSpeaks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

I still look back on all the time that I spent as a teen, crushed by stigma and afraid to talk about mental health with my friends and family,” says the Stanford grad. Teens, often with the support of their parents, are matched through the Somethings system with mentors who have similar backgrounds and situational experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Other international keynotes included colleagues Simon Mainwaring and Peter Sims (more about their ideas coming later this week in blogs posts, so stay tuned.) Teens As Free Agents. I loved hearing Isadora Faber, a pre-teen girl who lives in Florianópolis and creator of page Daily Class on Facebook. ” Philantroteens.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Just as Facebook’s Antigone Davis was live on CNBC defending the company over a whistleblower’s accusations and its handling of research data suggesting Instagram is harmful to teens , the company’s entire network of services suddenly went offline.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Meta-owned company hasn’t — and probably won’t — officially disclosed these numbers, as it has spent the last several months under scrutiny for potentially causing harm to kids and teens. The last time Instagram publicly announced the size of its userbase was back in 2018. It took three years for Instagram to hit the 2 billion mark.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Losing a couple of stripes : Anita , Natasha M and Mary Ann teamed up to tackle Stripe’s news that it is the latest to cut its internal valuation. Meanwhile, Sarah leans into a report that TikTok has overtaken YouTube as the place where all the kids and teens are spending their time. Let the pluses and minuses commence!

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For weeks, Facebook has stared down mounting anxiety over a leaked internal study about the harmful effects of Instagram on teenage girls — and Tuesday night, Mark Zuckerberg finally responded to the scandal personally. Teen and adolescent girls who interact with that content also tend to say they’re more dissatisfied with their bodies.

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sgEngage

JULY 16, 2024

For example, the internal theme of our summer appeal was “How ASM Prepares Teens for Life After High School.” Over three weeks, we highlighted our college readiness program, then our career exploration program, and finally wrapped the appeal with an email about how our summer programs prepare teens for life’s next steps.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On Tuesday, a former Facebook product manager named Frances Haugen testified before Congress about a trove of internal documents she gave to The Wall Street Journal. Zuckerberg has been noticeably silent on Haugen and the internal documents she gave to The Wall Street Journal until now.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2022

This has turned iMessage into a status symbol among US teens, creating peer pressure for young people to buy iPhones and sometimes leading to the ostracization of Android users. Apple’s messaging service includes a number of iOS-exclusive features, like Memoji , and famously turns texts from Android users green instead of the iOS-native blue.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

BuzzFeed News obtained a message from an internal messaging board where Instagram vice president of product Vishal Shah said a “youth pillar” project has been identified as a priority by the company. Mosseri would oversee the project along with vice president Pavni Diwanji, who oversaw YouTube Kids while she was at Google.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer, Pillar VC and more. Image Credits: Tagg.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Like Wigand, Haugen has receipts: internal documents and data from Facebook’s own researchers, all of which make for serious and supported claims about the platform’s harms and choices the company made to maximize profit and engagement in ways that would increase those harms. Zuckerberg has decided he is above it; he is on vacation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In fact, the founder had just joined Twitter in March, where he intended to aid the social network by building out new product experiences for teens via its 0–>1 team. But after the Elon Musk acquisition deal was announced, internal product development efforts slowed down, he says. Sayman wants Friendly Apps to be different.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Weeks later, Haugen testified before the Senate Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on consumer protection, outlining how platforms like Instagram harm children and teens. That testimony sparked new interest from lawmakers to regulate the tech giant.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Since Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked internal Facebook reports to the Wall Street Journal earlier this year, senators have held a series of hearings on how products like Instagram can encourage self-injurious behaviors in teens, especially in young women.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

" What’s in a word: Abundance, capacity, resource, network and community » ext337 – I really like this post from Marnie Webb, sharing her internal conflict working on the difference between words, like network and community. Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Unsurprisingly, fintech startups were well-represented in Y Combinator’s W22 batch, with 35 international companies participating and 25 more tagged as crypto-focused. Notably, the company was started by two Brazilian-born former teen hackers who were just 22 years old when Brex came to be valued at over $1 billion.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Journal stories were based on a series of internal reports at Facebook that Haugen leaked to the newspaper. Throughout her testimony, Haugen painted a picture of Facebook as both “internally dysfunctional” and unwilling to change its behaviors unless Congress, or some outside regulatory authority, decided to step in. “It

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After whistleblower Francis Haugen leaked the Facebook Papers , a collection of revealing internal Facebook documents, Instagram worked quickly to patch the holes in its sinking ship. About a month later, Instagram announced its plans to introduce a feature that will “nudge” teens away from viewing potentially harmful content.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The testing of a Take a Break feature comes amid intense scrutiny on Instagram and its parent company Meta (formerly Facebook) after whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress about the company’s internal research that showed Instagram can have a negative effect on the mental health of young people. Instagram/Adam Mosseri.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month. 29th : International Dance Day — #InternationalDanceDay. Consider the various awareness months that are observed in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. So being able to serve kids, teens and adults holistically inside one company globally is really exciting.” France, Italy and Spain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But despite India contributing more international students than any other country, most firms aiming to address this challenge are not focused on India, and struggle to understand some unique problems students in the world’s second-most populous country face. There are many universities that don’t have the best branding.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company is attempting to minimize its own research Ever since The Wall Street Journal published internal Facebook research that found Instagram harmed the well-being of teenage girls, the company’s defense has been to minimize and dismiss its own findings — saying documents were only relevant for internal product development.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

Haugen, a former product manager in Facebook’s civic integrity group, leaked a trove of internal Facebook documents to The Wall Street Journal last year that showed widespread problems within the company. During his first State of the Union, Biden is expected to speak about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, inflation, and global supply issues.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A group of state attorneys general has announced an investigation into “the techniques utilized by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement” of children and teens on Instagram and the negative effects that may cause ( via The Wall Street Journal ). Meta is concerned about young people not using its products.

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The letter calls for the company to allow independent reviews of its internal work, contribute data to external research projects, and set up an independent scientific oversight group. The research released, though, is limited and relied on subjective information collected through interviews. “It

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Liquid Death For giving the brand collab new life In a scene straight from the 90s, two girls fawn over a heartthrob in a teen magazine. This is the mystical universe of absurdist oddities and inside jokes that Mondelez International-owned Nutter Butter has crafted for itself across social since 2023, but really took off this past year.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A new report in The Wall Street Journal ’s series on Facebook’s internal research shows the company’s focus on kids goes much deeper , including studying children younger than four years old in the hopes of better designing future products.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In a down market, good messaging isn’t enough for managing international teams. After exiting two startups with international teams, he’s written a TC+ guest post to help founders communicate with workers during turbulent times. ” In a down market, good messaging isn’t enough for managing international teams. .

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