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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. 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. Games for Change. Creative Commons suggests.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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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. He sees the changes and pops the cartridge into his gaming system. It did so by changing into something Alex would like to play.

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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. I have no idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. Take for example her write up on Games for Change.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. 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?!). Social Media. It’s what makes our world go round, right? Conversion .

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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

What would we have changed? 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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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. Because things have changed. 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?

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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. I haven’t seen that much proof that internet has changed [post the Obama election]. Changes come through people and culture and not through technology. Politics is communications by another name.

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