Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? As I've said elsewhere on this blog about Second Life, it isn't yet the best medium for fundraising, but to get attention for a cause and connect with people - there's some opportunity. Because of the results obtained, the action will keep going.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used. What do you think? What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Calls to action: sign a petition, call Congress, event announcements, volunteer requests, urgent donation appeals, etc. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Calls to action: sign a petition, call Congress, event announcements, volunteer requests, urgent donation appeals, etc. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You could also host a holiday fundraiser to raise awareness and money for a certain charitable cause or business. 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. . Online audiences are looking for authenticity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. #CharityTuesday : This hashtag is very popular on Twitter, but people use it in different ways. You use it to send a shout out to your followers.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2013

When you ask a Millennial, “Do you support a nonprofit or social cause?” ” You’re likely to hear answers like, I signed a petition, changed my avatar on Twitter, or liked them on Facebook. Spend time to simplify your messages, and create clear and present calls to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

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. The next thing now is to add the new AdWords-Style Widget from the Social Actions folks.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

You could also host a holiday fundraiser to raise awareness and money for a certain charitable cause or business. 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. . Online audiences are looking for authenticity.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

From a branding perspective, you can set your own logo and colors, as well as create team member avatars. Nothing is worse than when you’re halfway through an article and this happens: You’re probably wondering: “ If popups might cause potential donors to leave my site, then why should I use them?

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

. • JD Lasica (that’s me) offered a one-stop shop for resources on how nonprofits and cause organizations can use social tools : a landing page that aggregates resources on social networking tutorials, handouts, top fund-raising tools and much more. Also, download this free flyer on 12 steps to mobilize your cause.

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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. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio. Emojis can be hashtags).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2011

Transmedia : As a funder, MacArthur was less interested in games as a stand alone experience, and more interested in them as part of a other actions and media that people can participate in. Design for Context : You need to understand the context that your game will be played in as you design it. iCivics: Learning How the Government Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

It's really hard to narrow it down to 5-10 projects, but here's a sampling of the diversity of projects and causes represented. Avatar Action Center. Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam. Creative Commons suggests. Aspiration's Social Source Commons.

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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. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I also believe that it's more inspiring for an individual to feel moved enough by a cause and take action independently of the nonprofit. I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars. The Social Media Roadblock.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Increasingly, donors and supporters follow causes on social networks. If you make storytelling a higher priority than marketing, then over time your nonprofit’s brand becomes synonymous with the cause(s) you advocate. Visuals inspire higher interaction and engagement rates. Engage authentically. Your nonprofit is not a person.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A play on words of the infamous emoji; these are customized avatars (see how we learn as we go along?!). When a user performs the desired next step from your social media campaign and responds to your call to action . Shameless plug for my cat’s Instagram: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

giving people all the facts and showing them why taking a particular action is in their best interest or is good for society in general. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? do you see any possibilities for nonprofits and social causes? ve traditionally relied on education as their main method ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos. these visitors stay on your site, travel to pages beyond just your landing page, engage with your media, and click your calls-to-action.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 17, 2023

There’s no magic pill you can take that will somehow attract rich people to your cause like moths to a flame. and others have their favorite cause, which may not be yours. You need to look for people who love your mission but haven’t given yet or who love your cause but haven’t met your nonprofit yet. Is there a list somewhere?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We made the action obvious. We had a great cause. If your cause isn’t just, people will feel icky promoting it. One possibility would have been to temporarily change our avatars to include a visual cue–like the Visible Government maple leaf–for all those officially behind the campaign. Have a clear call to action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. I know I’ll need your reassurance, your caring diagnosis, and soon your call to wise action. Would you be able to stand up for those scape-goated without cause? I hope you’ll be there.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We’ve seen potential for those unsympathetic to the cause to use the technology too – a bit of an arms race created. Which causes a lot of Iranian politics to take place outside of the country. But there has to be a number of people taking actions in the real world, too. They are inventing it for themselves.

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