Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

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. BlackPlanet , Quepasa , Bebo , Hi5 , and Orkut cater to communities of color and international audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. factor right with their target audiences. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? For others, the concept of ???public public information??? era websites. stickiness???

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. But I do it because it's useful to me as an organizational tool.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

They have also taken care to ensure that their logo scales well in avatar form (whenever their photo appears alongside one of their posts in a timeline). On balance, this is a good example of an audience-focused page, one that takes advantage of Facebook's readily-available customizations. The Page includes six tabs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. Thanks to social media, causes can now have direct and personal impact with their audience in ways that were once costly and ineffective. Tags: fundraising2.0 I have it because it is something I believe in and have a reason to support.

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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. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Audiences won't stick with nonprofits that don't make progress on issues and won't donate to groups that aren't having MAJOR impact. Tags: horizon. So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes.

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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. A successful social marketer is someone who really gets to know their audience ??? Perhaps most of your target audience members are not technologically savvy and don???t

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

ing someone is akin to tagging them, which sends them a notification that you’ve done so. Testing one idea against another amongst split audiences, learning, and implementing the best one into your regular campaign strategy. Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. via GIPHY. @ (mention) . @-ing

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

And if you’ve ever logged into this brutally confusing new technology, you’ve probably been literally confronted the sense that your avatar, let alone the emperor, has no clothes. Undoubtedly this will lead to innovation that you extend into your physical space “Sure, that all sounds great, but I can’t get my avatar off of orientation island!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. The median age for time spent in SL is early 30s, so you have an adult audience. Tags: virtual worlds interview usercontent game. Let’s start with the basics.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. What's this all about"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. ve gained all of these application users as an engaged audience. Who is that doggy in your twitter avatar? Tell me a little bit about you I???

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. Of course, in most cases, contributors are spectators and vice versa; the audience is blended. Tags: personalization design usercontent. Some allow you to write your life story. What would you ask them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

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. Only when there’s new information–”50 people have bought their country a beer”–will the audience consider revisiting things. Tags: socialmediametrics.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It's a warning sign when community members make comments like , "it was only boundless encouragement from Avi (Nina's Second Life avatar) that prevented me from giving up more than once." Tags: web2.0 I was a good community manager, but the system we set up to perform that management and cultivate the community was ill-considered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. The offline wikipedia, Moulin.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Below are live notes – apologies for spelling and grammar – that follow the main points and audience q/a. Western audiences came to know Iran through the 2009 election, the internet had been the place where you could find politics happening inside Iran when in person it was very hard there. It can be broad but shallow.

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