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Why You Need to Game Your Supporters

NetWits

You might be proud of your custom Facebook page and how many people follow you on Twitter. As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way. Maybe you just won a prestigious award and issued a press release. Gamification Evolution.

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Brighton Beach Brainstorm

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The best part of my job is brainstorming with brilliant, passionate people around social issues. The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now. When teacher is gone, it's Harry Potter.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. m also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Burkina Faso, West Africa), and am even now preparing to move from Washington, DC to Seattle immediately following a two-month fellowship in Australia. The first is to get people off the mouse and onto the keyboard. Tell me a little bit about you I???