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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pokemon Go , the latest installment in the best-selling Pokémon video game series, launched as a smartphone app using augmented reality. And early on Monday morning, I started getting queries from colleagues asking for recommendations on a Pokemon Go Nonprofit Brand strategy! This primer helped.

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How Organizations Can Use VR and AR Tech for Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can use your phone to project everything from Pokemon to characters from the Harry Potter universe onto the world around you, or achieve the same thing with wearable devices like the Microsoft Hololens. Today, you can use a virtual reality headset to play games or explore the world. ” A Walk Through Dementia. .

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Inside Goodwill’s #LaborofLove Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given that Goodwill has store locations, are you doing a Pokemon Go tie-ins or other location based marketing strategies? There are some Goodwill organizations leveraging the success of Pokemon Go to drive foot traffic to Goodwill stores. However, it is not a tactic for the #LaborOfLove campaign.

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Metaverse 101 for Nonprofits

Media Cause

This includes technology such as filters (popular on social media platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram), games (ex: Pokemon Go), and retail shopping (ex: virtual try-on items). Augmented reality is a 3D technology that allows the user to see the real-world environment with a digital augmentation overlay.

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10NTC: Should Serious Games Be Fun? (Yes)

Tech Soup

I had a good time going onstage with Asi Burak of Impact Games and Games for Change to do a quick runthrough of PeaceMaker , a game that places you as a leader in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at this year's NTC. How many people are likely to go home after a day of work and sit down to hours of frustration before bed?

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Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

Museum 2.0

It’s like Pokemon Go for professional opportunities; that site has some gold sparkles, that park is hopping with party animals, that collaboration request has a rainbow guarded by trolls. There are some projects that go on too long before they get axed. All of these are valid ways to approach the world.

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What Does a Great Distributed Digital Museum Experience Look Like?

Museum 2.0

While museums may cultivate curiosity, they rarely offer sufficiently clear, urgent use cases to encourage you to go through the drudgery of downloading an app. Once you download an app, are you really going to remember to (re)open it to find an interesting historical fact tagged to your geolocation? Pokemon Go).

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