Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Experiment with social media dashboards. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Experiment with HootSuite (or TweetDeck). Experiment with Twitter social good apps and portals. Design a custom banner, sidebar column image, and video page banner, if applicable. Experiment with LinkedIn Answers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

If your nonprofit’s tweets never get retweeted, that is the Twitterverse’s way of telling you that your tweets need improvement and that it’s time to experiment with posting different content. I know because I study which tweets get retweeted – and which don’t.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Google offers an incredible range of products ( google.com/options ) that you are likely to experiment with in coming years, so a Google account is a must for any nonprofit. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. HTML allows you to format text and insert links and images on Web pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

A featured avatar and header image. Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. ONG Profile Includes: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2014

Google+ isn’t for all nonprofits, but for those that have actively adopted a pro-social media policy, it’s worth the time investment to experiment with Google+. Posts with with a message and an uploaded image get much higher engagement than shared links. Experiment with animated.GIFs. What’s old is new again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Your nonprofit may also want to experiment with creating your own giving awareness day in November or December, such as Valley Gives Day ( #ValleyGives ) created by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and the hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. If you have the resources to put together a video guide, as well as written instructions, this can have a powerful impact and lead to greater attendee satisfaction and overall improved experience. . Hold Pre-event Sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. If you have the resources to put together a video guide, as well as written instructions, this can have a powerful impact and lead to greater attendee satisfaction and overall improved experience. . Hold Pre-event Sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

There’s a powerful synergy that begins to occur when your nonprofit has a presence on multiple on social networks and unfortunately most nonprofits never get to experience it due to capacity issues. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising. You need a good avatar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. Experiment with content, your tone, and your call-to-donate messaging. If it works, increase frequency to twice weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

It will automatically pull in your avatar, apply your Twitter username to your Pinterest account (such as pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ), and sync your account with Twitter in case you occasionally want to share Pinterest Pins with your Twitter community. If you have a Twitter account, sign up with your Twitter username and password.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. 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. There’s no shortage of niche networks out there to experiment with.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. Post Eye-catching Photos. Write Good Captions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. the powerful photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the U.S.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. There are more companies online than you can shake a stick at that create a shared experience for remote users but one particularly interesting one is the just-launched Pip.io.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Nonprofits have been experimenting with mobile and social networks for years. And Pinterest and Instagram, two of the most popular new social networks, are entirely image- and video-based. If your avatar, banners, and backgrounds are professionally designed, then users are much more likely to become followers.

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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. We try and duplicate offline experiences (be they useful or not) and not really take advantage of the medium. This brings together , text, and images. I've thought using the moderated chat protocol that is interface independent.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. If you want to run a live stream, then there are some things that you will want to consider first so that the attendee experience is the best it can be. . A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

You’ll need to invest in a photo-editing software or app that will allow you to edit, crop and insert text or your nonprofit’s logo or avatar into your photos. Like any other communications and fundraising tool, social media requires staff time, training, experience, hardware and software. ” and how destructive it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . The former was led by volunteers and the latter is done by partner organizations with decades of experience. If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away. Wait a minute! Isn’t that scandalous?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Create sidebar graphics for your blog and call-to-action images to promote your crowdfunding campaigns on mobile and social media. Instagram : Regram popular images you’ve upload to other social networks. Embed the most powerful quotes and stats on images and then upload them to mobile and social media. Chapter 9: Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

And so, informed by my experiences as a kindegardener, I humbly submit a couple good (and bad) points on sharing. Then go one better and give them exhibits that give better experiences the more people use them so that they pull strangers into the act. Good sharing point 1: Encourage social interactions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. Chapter 6 :: Experiment With Answers.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. If you want to run a live stream, then there are some things that you will want to consider first so that the attendee experience is the best it can be. . A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

A year and a half ago, I wrote about Carnegie Mellon-created two games that allow you to competitively tag images on the Web. I'm only at 99 points, but the leading players have logged tens of thousands of points--each of which corresponds a set of tags applied to an image. Their promise that it is "fun, easy, and addicting!"

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. Chapter 6 :: Experiment With Answers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. In fact, they even design the background for you. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Who is the "me" in the museum experience? But personalization can go much further than creating positive guest experiences. At its best, personalization creates an opportunity for visitors to enter museums on their own terms and to experience the institution based on their own learning styles, interests, and affinities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. Share As Image :: shareasimage.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit engages in advocacy, it’s worth experimenting with. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social on Flickr: the 6,400 members and 64,000 images posted to date only tell part of the story; the real success has been in those photographer???s Who is that doggy in your twitter avatar? Tell me a little bit about you I??? Hey, here???s

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Ontario Science Centre features a similar barcode-based IDea experience for visitors who create their own stop-motion animations onsite. The Sony Wonder Technology Lab in NYC has an involved Digital Profile system which personalizes every interactive to your name, voice, and image based on an initial registration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Share As Image :: shareasimage.com. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. so that you can select custom colors and fonts for your quote images.

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