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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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

Make good friends at work, have fun at industry-specific social gatherings, and take time each day to send a quick email to family and friends saying something positive. This way, when you’re feeling down, you’ll have a strong social network to pick you back up again. Take two minutes and journal.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

But with the Internet now accessible from public libraries, cyber cafés and cell phones, getting online is easier than ever for nearly anyone. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Another possible cause for concern: the WSJ writes that the number of teenagers using Facebook daily has fallen 19 percent in the last two years and could drop an additional 45 percent by 2023, according to a document the publication saw. Clearly, the social network will have plenty to answer for soon.

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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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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. The school doesn't have public wifi, so that will help. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She can write, but it's barely legible.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

She never had much interest in email, but does communicate with classmates from time to time on gaming social networks that are kid-appropriate. The school doesn't have public wifi, so that will help. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She can write, but it's barely legible.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Sarah Friar, CEO of the neighborhood-focused social network Nextdoor, says the company is to blame following widespread reports that moderators were deleting posts that discussed racial injustice or voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Learning Resources for Adults.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

He’s seen the latest trends among teen apps, but believes there’s potential to do anonymous social in a way that’s safer without enabling bad behavior. Ghost has since attracted 30,000 installs following last week’s public launch and is now hovering around No. App Store’s Social Networking category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Much of the advice is transferable to other social networking spaces. (I I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.) I have a myspace site but I haven't done any deep experimination.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect? This is even more critical when you are caught in the middle of a public relations firestorm. Three Tips to Operate Across Mulitchannels.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For lawmakers, it represents the best chance in years to take meaningful regulatory action against the world’s largest social network. It’s a powerful message — not just for the public, but for Facebook employees. It’s an alarming and specific claim, leveled from within the company and echoed by its most prominent critics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the rah-rah 2021 venture cycle, a great number of huge fintech rounds were raised, and companies in the sector went public. TikTok talks teen safety : The social service is bringing some of its safety tools aimed at minors around the world. As Nubank shares fall, is it time to worry about fintech valuations ? Sounds good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm really glad that she sent me this email because I had bookmarked one of her recent commentaries on nonprofits and online social networking. Her piece begins with a simple definition of online social networking tools and asks: What's the appeal? social media, or social networking tools.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But regulators and competitors continue to nip at its heels — TikTok has reportedly now surpassed it as the second-most popular app for teens , after Snapchat — and there’s no telling what it might look like another decade from now. It is now one of the most popular apps in the world and has thrived during the pandemic.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Can they share your message and Ask with their personal and social networks? Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Public speaking is one of the best ways to spread the word about your cause and get in front of prospective donors. Can you assign some Board members to make thank-you calls once a month?

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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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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" John Breyault and Kevin Reid from Issue Dynamics Inc. Whos on Second Life?

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Identify priorities for the types of programs and services you’ll offer to support your goals, target audience for your services, target supporter audiences, advocacy and public policy aims, and branding or marketing objectives. Leverage the power of your social networks to raise funds using this avenue. Monthly giving.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters. It's easy to forget that teens are most comfortable being social with those they already know, not people who are unknown to them. I'm not so sure this is true.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

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 bizarre obsession with "adding" friends? Or is it the stalkers? What makes Web 2.0 Exclusivity helps.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. 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. It was not a tough sell.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates. You don’t need an internal social network (though that is an option). A community provides insights. How can you create the community?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start working the social network sites. 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. You don’t have to be a curator or a marketing person to be involved in your museum’s blog or social network.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. Furthermore, in August 2009, 276.9

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Teenage Twitter hacker Graham Ivan Clark has pleaded guilty to last summer’s unprecedented bitcoin scam attack that involved the takeover of dozens of high-profile accounts on the social network, according to paperwork filed in Florida court on Tuesday. Shortly after the hack, Clark was arrested at his home in Hillsborough, Florida.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

The trend has prompted alarm from child safety watchdogs and parents, heightened by high profile cases of teens who have engaged in extreme, sometimes life-threatening , behavior in the wake of personal interactions with companion chatbots. and the prevalence of deceptively-labeled mental health chatbots.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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