Social Network Tag Teen Voice 
Amy Sample Ward
JULY 1, 2009
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? Go where the community already is! Instead, go where they have already set up shop.
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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Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
They exploded, speaking all in one voice: "I don't even like ordering food in a restaurant." "I For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters. Tags: Talking to Strangers. Before we got started, I asked them how they felt about talking to strangers.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 7, 2008
Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. 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.
Museum 2.0
MAY 5, 2009
The room was suddenly and incredibly buzzing with hundreds of voices, hundreds of people giving each other ideas. I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 30, 2007
Start working the social network sites. Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. 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. Tags: web2.0 Keep statistics. Can you grin and bear it?
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