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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

Connection Cafe

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. There were also plenty of leadership lessons in Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. . Welcome to the jungle, gang! You’re not perfect.

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Tips for Making the Most of Tweetups

Amy Sample Ward

Lesson: Listen! Lesson: Ask! Only knowing someone by their avatar or their username may make it difficult to share stories and ask hard questions, online. Lesson: Socialize! Lesson: Participate! Tip #2: Ask Hard Questions. Especially with the NFPTweetup, these events are intended to be educational and valuable.

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Online Community Meetup Recap: The Human-Centered Aspects of Community Management

Tech Soup

Siegel's lessons for community management drew on his experience managing communities of all kinds, having worked with companies such as NASA and IBM. Online relationships are built if all interactions happen with the recognition that behind an avatar/handle lies a person. Online Community Is About Relationships.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. 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. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. One of the most important lessons I have learned over the last seven years of building social networking communities is that social networking communities are migrant communities.

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Leah Jones Is Taking A 3-Day Journey To Fight Breast Cancer and Social Actions Can Help You Find Other Related Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. I hope she will blog some of her lessons learned too. I pointed her to my personal fundraising case study ).

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To get it ‘right’ is another thing - but there are lessons learned from Twestival that can carry over to even the smallest of causes. . I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. Hosting events for fundraising is nothing new.