Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s helping us invent new proteins and medicines , aiding us in the search for extraterrestrial life , and even helping us design better yachts. It reminds me of NFTs in a way—there’s a lot of potential and a lot of hype, but it’s so new and so unknown it’s like the wild west or the gold rush.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Giving Days are so powerful because they invite people from all walks of life to participate in the collective act of giving by even contributing small donations.They empower individuals to become agents of change through crowdfunding , irrespective of their financial capacity. The power of story can never be underestimated!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

What is interesting to me is the public/personal sharing options as Dave Gray shared in this post. This diagram is great, but in real life my own networks are blurry between personal, professional, and public sharing and learning. What ever platform you are on, there are best practices for using social networks for professional learning.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life. A lot of the success of a NFT drop is based on the hype and perceived value generated by the promotion work. Embed from Getty Images. Creating NFT Artwork.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Virtual summits can be useful for building brand awareness, lead retrieval, and for generating content with a long shelf-life. Virtual events are one of the best ways to boost revenue and are great for increasing digital clout in 2021.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard about the hype and are eager to see how an event can drive your brand awareness. Virtual summits can be useful for building brand awareness, lead retrieval, and for generating content with a long shelf-life. Virtual events are one of the best ways to boost revenue and are great for increasing digital clout in 2021.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2013

What happens to your mobile phone after it reaches its end of life? iPhone) app demystifies green product labels and claims so you can identify which are truly environmentally friendly — and which are just marketing hype. Reducing Waste. With PaperKarma. Consumer Reports' Eco-Labels. Games for Change.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2007

When Sibley decided to start a Second Life -focused business last year, I thought he was nuts. Well, a year, 40 employees, awesome projects, and a whole lot of hype later, I've been converted. I now believe in Second Life, not as a game environment, but as a new platform for social interactions with people, objects, and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? Your friend from third grade just had her 10th baby!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While the specific tactics and techniques for a tool may change, the concepts generally hold constant. Over the years, as I have watched Facebook roll out features and changes, it seems takes a predictable pattern: the big announcement, hype, backlash, more tweaks to the platform, experiments by users/organizations, and learning what works.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2018

The aptly named Social Innovation Summit certainly lived up to this hype again in 2018, offering inspiring stories from organizations across the private, public, and social sectors. What do they mean by “new life”? Cardboard Technologies uses recycled plastics and cardboard to create bicycles and wheelchairs – at an affordable cost!

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Achieve

MAY 22, 2016

That is the truly remarkable and purposeful life you will lead. You will fight for the rights of others in the hope they get the life they deserve. Yet we don’t see the hype and desire matching the action necessary for social change. I never got that feeling of satisfaction. That’s why we need you.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Blackbaud’s Steph McCluskey broke down all the hype around a lumni participation rates and encouraged us to shift our focus to maximizing our donors instead. Jeremy Wang, Associate VP of Development at Temple University, shared real-life examples for increasing your gift officer productivity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

There''s a moral argument that we need more bridging to build strong civic life. I''ve been reading and thinking a lot about "creative placemaking"--both the possibility and the hype. Bridging is hard. There are so many places and opportunities to bond, and so few opportunities to bridge. Bonding is crowded. Bridging is wide open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

SoTropia Life in 2040 Let’s peer into the near future. No Hype Online Fundraising A panel of nonprofit fundraisers will cut the hype on text-to-give, email solicitations, social media, e-Cards and other interactive fundraising strategies. How do you build an online community that makes a serious impact for your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. As Jon Stahl notes, in reaction to the recent Overbook Foundation Report , I wonder how much of this anxiety is the product of nonprofit sector consultants and pundits hyping Web 2.0 How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? Of Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it. The John D.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

See how Qgiv can help you bring your Giving Tuesday campaign ideas to life! Twitter, on the other hand, is a more casual social media platform where people share life updates of 280 characters or less. See how Qgiv can help you bring your Giving Tuesday campaign ideas to life! Let’s get started! Request Demo. Request Demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. I've received LinkedIn alerts from contacts in the nonprofit space who are distributing a job description or recruiting.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

In most cases, the hype that precedes a tool is so overwhelming that its functional value is lost in its charm appeal. Consider the grandfather who points to a computer and asks if it does google, or the college student who downloads killer app after killer app, without wondering (or caring) how the software will affect or support her life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. way to the future?

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JANUARY 29, 2009

Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. … I’ve always wondered who the heck would be interested in the mundane details of your life. Which brings us to Twitter. Usually, it’s 1 in 500.).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When faced with this list of challenges, I've seen some nonprofits try and find a life-raft in the IT ocean by following what larger commercial or government organizations do. If they don't stand up for what the organization needs, then there's a good chance it could get lost in a mixture of technology hype and buzzword euphoria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Her blog is filled with insightful pieces that cut through the hype of new technologies and often ask the hard probing questions that haven't been asked. I've been an educator for pretty much all of my adult life (even at Bennington, I was a tutor, and taught some classes in technology.)

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Ready to learn how practical AI tools can make your life easier? A Different Kind of Chatbot: ChatGPT Lately, there’s been a lot of hype around ChatGPT. Say goodbye to tedious tasks and hello to what really matters – making a positive impact for the communities you serve.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

For example, the header image on the Mercy Ships homepage is a picture a young boy who received a life-changing surgery. Here are a few suggestions specifically for nonprofit marketing: Save-the-date emails: This type of email could be a complete save the date or a fun “hype” email announcing that something big and exciting is coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Some over-hype it as "magical" and "transformative." Who could have predicted that one of the most popular iPhone applications would be one that turns the phone into a flute , or that a first-aid app would save the life of man trapped in the rubble in Haiti? Personally, I'm bullish on the product.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. We follow our habits or rely on intuition. We allow the choice to bubble up without losing much time agonizing over the outcome.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Use your social media pages and email newsletters to build hype for your giving day starting a few weeks in advance. Conflict: Highlight the issues your protagonist faces and how it impedes their daily life. In addition to launching a Giving Tuesday campaign, you can also create a giving day on a date of your choosing.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

As one Intel engineer in Anderson and McGonigal's test group commented: “Having to ‘live with’ it [the metaphorical object] made me think differently about new ideas — It wasn’t about coming up with something clever but something to fit into life.” I don't think terms like "wikimuseum" are pure hype. I think they have potential.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2010

In all of the current hype about "apps", it's important to remember that a web browser is itself an app. At one of the start-ups I worked for in a previous life, our designer came up with an interface for one of our products that looked like a standard computer program. The browser is not the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Photo from article by Adam Reuters, Reuters Second Life Bureau and used with permission. Then I happen to notice another article on Adam's blog - about an announcement that US Congress will make its Second Life site available to the public Friday, January 5, 2007. I'm going to stop by after the TechSoup meeting tommorrow.

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