Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. To blog effectively, a nonprofit must allocate a minimum of 10 hours per week to blogging.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 17, 2011

It has tagged ideas that are “Coming in the next release.” I know there are many other 3rd party applications that enhance reporting, some probably have a steep price tag. I’m still not sold on it, mostly for reasons that my fellow-MVP Elizabeth Davidson explained on her blog. Some are huge. And disappointing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

Technorati Tags: VECoP I was able to at least build a poster with a handle, although I had major problems attaching it. My spatial thinking skills are not my strong suit, so building stuff isn't easy for me. Ruby Sinreich has a write up on the workshop here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. Anonymous Blogging. era websites.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

is dynamic — blogs, wikis, and social networks that connect people in your community; Web 3.0 The first tip was something that is often overlooked as organizations make the big move to social media — investing in a good avatar. Heather began her presentation by differentiating between the different types of "web." Tools Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Blog: pancan.org/blog. 3) Creating a webpage on our website specifically for the social media community and offer Twitter backgrounds, avatars, copy and paste status updates/tweets and downloads for people to use and share. (4) Tags: The Book. Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium.

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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. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. or more like web 1.0?) " Web 2.0,

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. Visit the SSIR blog to comment, or leave your thoughts below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. At NCVS we had an extra laptop available to allow newcomers to create their Second Life avatars and demonstrate how to work together as we welcomed a new volunteer youth social media tech Markese to the team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

When you moderate a panel at BlogWorld Expo , ironically, sometimes you’re the last person to blog about it. • Justin also pointed to this article on how to bring social network avatars to life and an essay on how slacktivism is a misnomer. Such is the case with the Oct.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website. Here are a few guides for popular sites to get your tracking codes set up: Google Remarketing Tag. Pinterest Tag. From a branding perspective, you can set your own logo and colors, as well as create team member avatars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). Technorati Tags: secondlife.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. Update: Read Stacy's blog post aobut the panel here. Technorati Tags: iasummit2007 the networking piece that happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Notice how their avatars include the zappos identity? Tags: 2ndwave. (See Mark Hendrickson's post for a summary) A couple of nuggets: They use Twitter for customer service and encourage employees to tweet. Tony has a get started guide for employees to get up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Here's how you can donate ten cents (or more) to the cause without spending a dime of your own money: Each A Powerful Noise Tweet must include the hash tag #apowerfulnoise to generate the donation. Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. Tags: fundraising2.0 has been raised.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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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. Press Release for the Event ( Blog post about the PR aspect ).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos. These services are fun and useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. Tags: fundraising2.0 Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. I have it because it is something I believe in and have a reason to support. social media twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , npsl I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Details will be available soon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My colleague, NMC's VP Alan Levine (aka Cogdog Blog ) invited to give one of the keynotes in their 3D virtual space. . In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . It is described here on the Case Foundation blog by Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one). If you have a blog, write something about this event! The places with more than a handful of avatars present always seem to increase the probability of trouble though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. " Learning in Real Time " by Jennifer Hoffman and Jonathan Finkelstein Top Synchronous Training Myths and Their Realities - By Nanette Miner InSynch Training and their Synchronous Training Blog LearningTimes training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Ensure that an e-newsletter opt-in form is prominently featured on your homepage, on every page of your website, on your blog home page, and in every blog post. Create sidebar graphics for your blog and call-to-action images to promote your crowdfunding campaigns on mobile and social media. Chapter 5: Online Fundaising.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

There have now been a couple comments on this blog to the effect of: "Visitors already create content in museums through their thoughts and social interactions." Tags: web2.0 One person commented that the more interesting question is not how we build a platform for visitor content creation but how we facilitate sharing of that content.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. Tags: virtual worlds interview usercontent game. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define virtual worlds? Is now the time for museums to get into Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. Last year, Alan invited [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. I routinely bookmark and comment on environmental news, green blogs, and stories about sustainability and alternative energy technology. StumbleUpon.

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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. Facebook, LinkedIn) Blogs offer a human voice, newsworthy information and experiences, and a forum for feedback -- and empower supporters to engage with and share ideas around your stories and news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This was originally published at the Rednod blog by Alistair Croll who among other things is the co-author along with Sean Power of Complete Web Monitoring recently published by O'Reilly. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). What worked? What didn’t?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian. I think there are people who say “yes, there are people who have said I’ve changed my avatar green…&# One of the things with Dean’s campaign initially was that they had huge amounts of online activism but had problems turning that into real life work.

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