Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Feel free to email or skype me if you need help getting started - it's a wee bit of a learning curve, but fun.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Mix things up by adding a fun session or two. . Attendee avatars or personas had the option to chat with one another while awaiting the next session or the address from the keynote speaker. . Trivia is always a fun way to bring people together. Virtual Cocktail Hour.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2011

The ability to play and replay scenarios, choosing different actions and benefiting from an expert avatar counseling you along the way seemed really well done. The application of this technology for different therapeutic and counseling scenarios is huge. Al Gore: Games for the Environment.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While virtual events may not be considered as much fun as in-person charity events, they are still a great way to raise money for a cause and to promote a social issue. . Now for the fun part! With this technology, guests can create an avatar and move into different digital spaces. . Setting Up the Virtual Environment.

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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. Now the fun begins! Upload your first Pins. e-Newsletter. Happy pinning!

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

Mix things up by adding a fun session or two. Attendee avatars or personas had the option to chat with one another while awaiting the next session or the address from the keynote speaker. Trivia is always a fun way to bring people together. Virtual Cocktail Hour.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

We asked GreenTech volunteer Michael Hodges to sign up and try out different things in Second Life like find the Nonprofit Commons Island and befriend 'avatars' there. This is the story of my avatar, JTR Arentire, and how he came into being without going-down the rabbit hole. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

The 'fun' part of the island is the Stadium for the Dutch Fund for Disability Sports. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). An easy first Snap would be a picture of your nonprofit’s location with a Geofilter, then add text to declare that this is your first Snap and add some Stickers for fun and then share.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While virtual events may not be considered as much fun as in-person charity events, they are still a great way to raise money for a cause and to promote a social issue. . Now for the fun part! With this technology, guests can create an avatar and move into different digital spaces. . Setting Up the Virtual Environment.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

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

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 5, 2016

If a big swimming event is occurring next week and it is going to be in the hearts and minds of your employees, why not place a game in front of them that allows them to expand on their learnings while advancing their avatars across a cartoony swimming pool? Why not create badges that match your gamification efforts?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A volunteer group put on a Fun Day. What may be just one fun photo of a staff member can destroy the professionalism of your office. Should you have a dress and behavior code for staff and others who become "friends", including their avatars? What part of social networking can be charged to program funds?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. I can't move around very fast, my avatar has bad hair and outfits (I can't figure out how to change them), and sitting is a real challenge for me. Create an account and avatar for yourself, also free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

MacArthur Foundation becomes the first foundation to leave behind the limitations of physical space and fly into virtual worlds. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. It would also be a great way to test out the virtual philanthropy simulator ideas I wrote about earlier; or.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

This removes the theory from the abstract and gives sample worksheets and questions to help you quickly arrive at practical solutions to help your organization futurecast, promote broader awareness, and achieve action-based results, while remembering that there is nothing wrong with celebrating the element of fun.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. Only by accident did Spencer’s avatar Dr. Smolder Bravestone discover his by touching his right pectoral muscle.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. Examples: For World AIDS Day, avatars wore shirts with red ribbons and for Breast Cancer Awareness month they wore shirts with pink ribbons. Examples: Climate Concern's Group and the ONE Campaign's Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

The human mind craves order and categories, so while it fun to discover new people through a John Cage like exercise in randomness, I wondered how I might be more efficient at following a large number of people.  Profile View:  You can click on the person's avatar/profile and it shows up in another screen. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been having a lot of fun researching some metaphors for the future and of course, I went straight to the Jetsons. In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . The fun part is figuring out how to effectively deliver a 3D presentation in a 3D space.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. The campaign is trying to raise awareness that, "Each year, around 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape, or other violence." For more information, go to www.oneten.org.uk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. The takeaway here is the retweet message shouldn't necessarily be the ask, but something fun or related to the theme of the campaign.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

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

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. But rather than the person of the year being the you in user, isn't it the us in users?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. " Web 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

On June 4, the physical prototypes hit the floor of The Tech and the real fun (and analysis) begins. And while I'm excited to engage in this discussion with other museum professionals on June 4, I'm even more thrilled to meet the real people behind the avatars who initiated these wonderful exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

We know there are lots of people out there who have been "peeking in" on Second Life for awhile now, reading the articles, seeing the videos, maybe even creating an avatar. Casting it as a walk-through tutorial, with a bit of interaction thrown in, will hopefully turn arduous "instructions" into a fun and informative experience.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. Their promise that it is "fun, easy, and addicting!" It's also worth mentioning the friendly, fun attitude that the whole Posse site takes towards tagging. is scarily true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Where Most Needed blog lets us know that Google has acquired a fun statistical visualization tool from a Swedish nonprofit. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? My background is in public health, with an interest in using the mass media to help bring about healthy behavior change. Why did you start blogging?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. TweetSheet is a simple, but fun web app that converts your Twitter activity into an infographic. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Instagram :: instagr.am. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter where you are, but we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. And so this is where it gets kind of fun. That was fun for my boy.

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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. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define virtual worlds? and design something fantastical. This is already a much more human environment than the web, even though it’s clunky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. TweetSheet is a simple, but fun web app that converts your Twitter activity into an infographic. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Instagram :: instagr.am. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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