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Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life: Nonprofit Commons Grand Opening Gala Event on August 14th, 2007

Have Fun - Do Good

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. 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. I thought some of you might want to check it out. I am a total Second Life newbie.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. 3) Creating a webpage on our website specifically for the social media community and offer Twitter backgrounds, avatars, copy and paste status updates/tweets and downloads for people to use and share. (4) YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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More on Virtual Worlds and Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(see her post about the virtual philanthropy simulator ) She shares some thoughts about what she thinks may happen after June 22, 2007 when The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation becomes the first foundation to leave behind the limitations of physical space and fly into virtual worlds. vote with their feet,???

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Nonprofits and NGOs Celebrate International Women's Day

Have Fun - Do Good

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Leading A Session from SecondLife

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He was participating via SecondLife as an on-screen avatar. Two-thirds of our panelists were in the top 10 of all evaluations (Steve Daigneault / Amnesty International and Tim Fullerton / OxFam America) and the overall evaluation of our session was very high. You can read more about it on Barry’s blog.