Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Our largest “good idea” to date will be a fully accredited residential high school for homeless teens in San Francisco, which we will look to replicate in other cities across the country. As a fairly new nonprofit, this online contest gave us the ability to gain exposure and compete with some more established organizations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. At the age of 20, he founded Swimply , a marketplace for homeowners to rent out their underutilized pools to local swimmers, with Asher Weinberger. The arrangement sparked a business idea in Laskin’s mind.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Your organization also needs to show up in search, news, and grassroots efforts by your supporters to make it a staple. 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. Partner with a Local Florist. Do you hear the bells?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The round is led by Redseed Ventures, with participation from Baring Vostok, Kismet, Flyer One Ventures and Alexander Nevinsky, a partner at New York-based I2BF. Kodland’s remote courses for children aged 6-17 are currently available in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S.,

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Ask your local donut maker to donate a portion of their proceeds on June 7 to your cause, or ask a favorite hot dog shack to give special coupons for a free or discounted frank to the folks that donate to you in a given time period. Bike-a-Thon.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

If you’re a US-based iOS or iPadOS user and you sync pictures with iCloud Photos, your device will locally check these pictures against a list of known CSAM. Is Apple’s new system different from other companies’ scans? Apple’s system, by contrast, checks for matches locally on your iPhone or iPad. The system works as follows.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is a New York City-based organization that provides services and advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders. event will be in New York City in October. Liberating Ourselves Locally. Sage CyberCenters. Want to attend the next summits?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2023

Amazon employees in Florida, New York and Washington State will be the first to try the tool. Specifically, Better.com announced it was launching Equity Unlocker , a program that allows employees to use their vested equity as collateral for a down payment when trying to buy homes.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. I work with clients from mainly in New York, but also all over the country with my “All About Grant Writing” online course. And I know some of my clients are very local.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

For example, say a library organization wanted to restore a historic local library. Her daughter has required volunteer hours at her school; she may be a good prospect for our teen volunteer program.” They may decide to hold an informational event at that library to engage individuals who are already connected to it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. local time). Media isn't just happening to kids.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

But don’t do that right now because one of my best buddies, Kishshana Palmer, is here for beautiful Washington, DC by way of New York City, normally, right, Kishshana? And also for Old Navy, when the flagship store opened in New York City, I got one of the first jobs at the cash register. How’s it going?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

The New York Hall of Science’s Career Ladder successfully recruits and advances neighborhood teens as floor explainers, and their full-time staff includes many people who have come “up through the ranks.” The Brooklyn Museum of Art found that skateboarders were using their entrance plaza and invited them to continue.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Airbnb managed to create a product extension through its own cultural intermingling, and now its Icons platform allows guests to book stays in IRL pop-cultural locales. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

STEM for the South Bronx (Bronx, New York) A high school robotics team with a vision to create an education center that is open to the public to explore the world of STEM. Signisa (Dobbs Ferry, New York) An organization working to develop an AI-powered sign language learning application offering free, accessible courses.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

New to the crew is Taylour Paige as Axel's hard-headed daughter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a local ally, Nasim Pedrad as a flustered real estate agent, and Kevin Bacon as a smirking antagonist. This is the case for this outrageous offering, which stars Jack Black as infamous scammer /local celebrity Jan Lewan. The sparks will fly.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 20, 2022

The film centres around a man known to local authorities as Buster, who's being tracked for breaking into and living in people's holiday homes in mountainous Montana. Directed by Sarah Adina Smith, Buster’s Mal Heart is one you might have scrolled right by on Netflix. Seriously, we have ALL the streaming advice. UPDATE: May.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Lost Girls When her daughter, Shannan, goes missing, Mari Gilbert relentlessly pushes local police to keep up the search — and ends up uncovering multiple unsolved Long Island murders along the way. The characters are real teens, reaching for connection without fully understanding their own motivations. A true winner, all around.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

The Phoenix-based owner of a shoe-and-leather store wrote in a local newspaper he was “amazed and a little dumbfounded” by regulators’ campaign to “change how digital platforms operate.”. Tiffany Hsu and Cecilia Kang / The New York Times ). Emily Cochrane / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Here are Taylor Lorenz, Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel in the New York Times : TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Trump’s campaign rally as a prank. Ben Smith / The New York Times ). It turned out that they had been played.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.) David McCabe / New York Times ). The United States is retaliating against France’s imposition of a “tech tax” with new tariffs. Jim Tankersley / New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

But there’s still the question of who will own TikTok, and today an odd new challenger appeared. America’s two hottest teen tech brands, Microsoft and Walmart, are teaming up for a bid. Multiple threads on Facebook and Reddit encouraged militiamen to head to Kenosha, Washington, ostensibly to protect local businesses from protesters.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Biden’s campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account created by a teen supporter. David McCabe / The New York Times ). Paul Mozur / The New York Times ). It’s all a localization strategy, which allows you to not only achieve relevance but respect,” he said. Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Here’s Kate Conger and Nicole Perlroth today in the New York Times : In February, Russian trolls fueled an American-made conspiracy theory that former members of Hillary Clinton’s staff were rigging the Iowa caucuses, and helped push the baseless theory to the top of Twitter’s trending list. Nathaniel Popper / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Reported cases in New York: 369,801. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 1,774,128. Reported cases in New Jersey: 156,628. Total test results (positive and negative) in New Jersey: 635,892. Data from The New York Times. Reported cases in Illinois: 114,448.

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