Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

Of the nearly 400 people who listened in on Thursday, many say they gained real, actionable advice they could apply to their organization's social media use. The first tip was something that is often overlooked as organizations make the big move to social media — investing in a good avatar. Tools Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

To top it off, I did an interview with Wendy Harman from the Red Cross about her recent experience using Twitter and other tools to spread buzz for campaign - Social Media Roadblock. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. We got advice not to do that. What's your advice?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

As for social media, we've tried to supply our online supporters with all the tools they might need to make it as easy as possible for them to help us get the word out that people affected by disasters need their help. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. that are easy to grab and use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. " Web 2.0, 20 practices. A Couple of Really Good Wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

He uses a red haired avatar , so that has been my mental image of him. Yes, but I hate to think of my blog as a professional development tool although I understand it can be one. What advice would you offer other folks who are staff at nonprofits and want to blog? Do you see blogging as a professional development opportunity?

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MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Each mobile and social network has its own unique tool set and etiquette, and only the most observant new media managers have learned what makes each social network unique and then adapted that knowledge to their content strategy. Be very wary of miracle marketing automation tools. Your nonprofit is not a person. Be a content curator.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I'm going reel off the names of some tools that I've observed you using and would love your best piece of advice or tell me a story about how you've used it in your org. Who is that doggy in your twitter avatar?

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MARCH 2, 2012

We created an add with our AXIS avatar and the slogan “Change the way you think about dance forever… “Like us” on Facebook” Since it is our fist time working with FB ads, we decided to start small. 6.) Lessons Learned, Advice. It’s so fun and easy.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. The e-Campaigning Tool for plone can do petitions, letters to targets, and other campaign related activities.

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