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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to run the social media strategy game with senior program staff at the Packard Foundation. Yesterday, I had an opportunity to ask about 100 teens attending the Asian Liver Center's Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health this question directly.

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Copper Banking adds $9M in funding as digital banks clamor for teen customers

TechCrunch

Copper Banking , a digital banking service aimed at teens, announced today it has raised a total of $13.3 We worked with millions of teens and parents in our previous company,” Behringer told TechCrunch. So far, Copper’s strategy seems to be working. The result, Behringer adds, is fewer fees for its teen customers.

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The Future Today: Empowering youth via social media

Amy Sample Ward

If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). “huge forum success via virtual worlds (e.g. www.publicmattersgroup.com/about.htm.

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Pheed and Sulia: Two New Social Networks for the Nonprofit Early Adopters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits that have the capacity to be early adopters have learned that early adoption in and of itself is a wise social media strategy. Related Links: Free Webinar on April 18: 11 Steps to Launching a Successful Social Media Strategy for Your Nonprofit. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens?

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With so many new top level domains launching, what should your strategy be?

The Next Web

The process of choosing a domain name is not unlike that moment in your teens or early 20s when you decided to get a tattoo. The.com isn’t going away, says Lou Hoffman, CEO of The Hoffman Agency , a global public relations firm based in San Francisco that specializes in corporate business strategies like these. What best defines you?

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The Nonprofit’s Guide to TikTok

Nonprofit Tech for Good

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. This is where your nonprofit can make an entrance and develop a strategy to meet these potential supporters on the platform. To be effective on this short-form video-sharing platform, nonprofits will need to invest time in a content strategy and learn the tool by diving in headfirst.

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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

They predicted that, if “increasingly fewer teens are choosing Facebook as they grow older,” the company would face a more “severe” decline in young users than it already projected. And while Instagram remains incredibly popular with teens, Facebook’s own data shows that they are starting to engage with the app less. Declining numbers.

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