Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

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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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. The gap between older and younger digital users is rapidly diminishing, especially as boomers explore the vast array of uses for the Internet. How to' networking sites are increasingly popular among older adults.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible. "Do young people have email accounts?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. to post public events hosted by your organization under "Events I'm Attending" on MySpace and similar areas on other platforms.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

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). This age group is increasingly on Facebook , MySpace and Twitter -- more ’mainstream’ social networks.“ They are not just posting photos of their grandkids.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. We didn’t want to build MySpace.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. The irritating design?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

puts it, “MySpace for inanimate objects.” For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Do your MySpace friends come to museum programs? Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. It’s not acceptable to say “we want to do it all.”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Brand awareness is often the driving reason for museums to have presences on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and other general-audience social media sites.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

People like to talk about and show themselves--that's why MySpace is so popular. In these and other examples (the Walker Art Center's new teen site comes to mind), the museum specifically sets up a site in a way that is not most comfortable, useful, or familiar to the museum staff. But they may attract different people.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Digital media is being shaped by the private sector (YouTube, MySpace, etc). "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. The event was streamed into Global Kids Teen Grid Here's what the kids has to say and photos. Educators need to intervene and make creative alliances. NMC Consortium Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

These themes of race and class were not lost on ethnographer danah boyd , who gave one of the most provocative presentations of the conference – quoting both Habermas and inner-city teens! She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of “white flight” from MySpace to Facebook.

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