Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Photos and slideshows. e-Newsletter. Powerful stats. Inspirational quotes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Also, since the Google+ Pages launched after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Photos and slideshows. e-Newsletter. Powerful stats. Inspirational quotes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. Note that there is a link to the blog post in the pin and that clicking the photo. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. The popular misconception that the tools themselves i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogging, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. The Flickr stream is here. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." Check the new Meta Metaverse blog and the eSheep blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m. I reserved my seat.

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JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Photo by Pistachio. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Last night I couldn't sleep and followed the trail of links that Pistachio or rather PEAstachio left in a comment on the post about nonprofits and twitter. She also something very powerful, "Do Not Twitter Without Love."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. NMC Flickr Photos. local time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful. Details here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. " These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Based in the U.K.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? s engaged enough to write a sentence or two or to participate in a conversation or to upload a photo with a caption is a person who???s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Based in the U.K.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Based in the U.K.,

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. Think of the impact the folks at Movember are having, only online.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). 99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Based in the U.K.,

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It's a warning sign when community members make comments like , "it was only boundless encouragement from Avi (Nina's Second Life avatar) that prevented me from giving up more than once." On Buzz, for example, every author is part of the same overall blog, so it is not hard to conceptually manage the idea of multiple institutional authors.

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