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Upload an avatar, and fill out a short blurb about your nonprofit in the bio. Image courtesy of The Telegraph. Twitter is a powerful tool for any nonprofit. It is, in simply put, a free messenger that instantly connects your nonprofit to hundreds of millions of possible constituents. MORE
Cogdog has his presentation "Being There" on flickr too. His notes on his blog. He's talking about the network effect: My suggestion is that ???expertise??? expertise??? embodied in a single person is a quasi myth, and the suggested route is to ???be??? MORE
Yet everyday on Twitter and (especially) Facebook nonprofits are sending out hundreds of thousands of Tweets and Status Updates with completely wrecked avatars. The visual appeal of your social media avatar is very important to the success of building your online brand. MORE
As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way. This is a guest post by Jesse Noyes. He’s a Corporate Reporter at Eloqua. MORE
It’s just nowhere near enough. “Humanizing” is MUCH more than having a real face instead of a logo as your avatar. A lot of the stuff you’re probably reading online about “humanizing your brand” is about social media tactics. MORE
There are almost 200 hundred avatars here and it's twenty minutes before the event! Check out the article on the New York Times MORE
over being “Heather Mansfield,” but writing and promoting Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits has required that I step out of my comfort zone a bit and put a face and voice to human being behind the “Nonprofit Organizations” avatar. Truth be told, I much prefer the anonymity of being “Nonprofit Organizations” online ( Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , etc.) MORE
Fanton's Avatar Looks Like Him! Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Sitting in the event for the MacArthur Foundation MORE
Thus, you can not upload an avatar or photos on the desktop version, or browse who’s following you or who you are following. MORE
Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). It's called: Change the World by Working in a Virtual One. MORE
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Second Lifers May Soon Get a New Way to Talk: "Second Lifers May Soon Get a New Way to TalkIn the virtual-reality world Second Life, cartoonlike characters known as “avatars” communicate through instant messages. Avatars know someone is chatting with them when his or her hands pantomime tapping a computer keyboard while a message appears on the screen.That. MORE
By creating avatars to represent online protesters, Ramaker has twice used a unique approach to get tangible results. The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. The Plan: What was the strategy behind the avatar campaign and the general description? MORE
By creating avatars to represent online protesters, Ramaker has twice used a unique approach to get tangible results. The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. The Plan: What was the strategy behind the avatar campaign and the general description? MORE
Change your main avatar picture. As you may know by now, Facebook Pages will automatically migrate over to a completely new format on March 30th. You do not want to wait until 9:00PM on the 29th to start figuring this out! MORE
Step 2: Select “Feature your channel” to add your avatar to all your videos. Seemingly less than 1% of nonprofit have upgraded to YouTube’s new One Channel design , but even fewer appear to be utilizing YouTube’s new InVideo Programming option. MORE
11 Excellent Examples of Nonprofit Avatars. Now that nonprofits are officially in the throes of peak fundraising season, upgrading to the new Twitter profile design launched on September 18 is likely low on the priority lists of many nonprofit communications and fundraising staff. MORE
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. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? MORE
Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. The eleven nonprofits below are good examples to model your avatar design upon. MORE
And did you read that apparently avatars consume as much electricity as your average Brazilian (is there such a thing?). I’ve got as far as creating my avatar (&# Joe Boa&# ), but I’m with Amy Gahran: Second Life: I’ve enough going on in my First Life , thanks MORE
I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Then I teleported off to the Berkman Center discussion on Avatar Marketing. MORE
People think I'm nuts that my business card features my SL avatar. in a decade virtual worlds will be normal Originally uploaded by lynetter. Maybe I am or maybe I just have a talent for future trend analysis MORE
They have personality and its obvious that there is a human being behind the avatar. Finding your Twitter voice is an accomplishment only earned through a process of trial and error and conscious experimentation. MORE
Simplify Your Profile Picture – The new profile picture (AKA avatar) is now 180 pixels square. You don’t need to include the name of your organization in your main avatar because the name of your Facebook page travels with your avatar everywhere on Facebook. MORE
Pipes (1) Nonprofit 2.0 , Second Life , nptech More proof Second Life is a boondoggle (well, sort of) 12.12.06 | 154 14 Comments [link] More+proof+Second+Life+is+a+boondoggle+%28well%2C+sort+of%29 2006-12-13+04%3A21%3A50 Allan+Benamer Hilarious yet fascinating blog post about the energy consumption of an avatar in Second Life… courtesy of the sciam.blog. MORE
It includes very cool features such as a custom login form and avatars for your users that appear in the menu bar as well as in submitted posts and the authors list section. MORE
These alerts usually shows your avatar and often time your bio. Make sure your avatar and bio information is up to date and start actively following as people in your community. Image courtesy of Home Business Rotator. MORE
It’s grunt work which many nonprofit’s do not have the time for or the endurance to maintain, but every time your nonprofit does one of the six actions listed below, your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on the Social Web – and as a result more fans and followers. MORE
It allows you to create 3D avatars in a fun and safe virtual world and that too for free. IMVU is sort of a virtual world that was established in 2004 and was very popular at that time. It is basically a multiplayer online video game that brings people together on an online platform. MORE
Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. What are the logistics of working the avatar? MORE
Beyond the obvious graphic design work, what’s exceptionally clever is that they have created long vertical profile pics that when cropped in Status Updates produce a solid, square avatar that’s seen by their Fans in their News Feeds. MORE
With a just a couple of clicks, Twitter Mosaic allows you to create a mosaic of the avatars of your Twitter Followers that can be placed on t-shirts, tote bags, mousepads, mugs, business cards, etc. MORE
Next, hover over your nonprofit’s avatar and upload a profile picture. As I have said many, many times your avatar a.k.a. Building a powerful visual brand of your nonprofit’s avatar is crucial on all social networking sites and a cropped, messy logo a.k.a. MORE
Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. The eleven nonprofits below are good examples to model your avatar design upon. MORE
Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being. MORE
An Avatar :: 200 x 200 pixels. Your avatar should compliment or be extracted from your logo: 2. Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. MORE
At the core of the brand is the Nonprofit Organizations avatar which has been used consistently since then to build a visual brand across many social networks ( Facebook , Twitter , Pinterest , etc). The “Nonprofit Organizations” brand was launched in February 2005 on Myspace. MORE
Your NGO has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. Donors and followers will associate your NGO with your avatar. MORE
After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.". MORE
Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters. On your nonprofit’s website, the head office should offer a downloadable version of your nonprofits primary avatar (250 x 250 pixels). If they do not have the capacity, then the head office must customize the avatar for them. MORE
Larger Avatar :: 400×400 Pixels :: @ UnicefNZ. This week Twitter began its roll out of a new Twitter Profile design and at any moment your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile could have a completely different look and functionality. MORE
Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. You’ll need a photo editing tool to drag and drop your logo or avatar onto your images, but the extra step is worth your time. MORE
In that case, go to Bing Images and search by color (to match your nonprofit’s avatar ) and you’ll be presented with hundreds of potential header images that could look as good as the eleven chosen by the early adopter nonprofits listed below: 1. MORE
Retweets ensure than your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on Twitter which ultimately results in more followers and click-through rates. They want to know there’s a human being behind your avatar. MORE
A photo from this afternoon's protest poster and t-shirt making workshop that is part of RootsCampSL "J27 Events for Peace " Building stuff together in Second Life is where great learning takes place.The workshop leader was errcheck Hick (you can see his read t-shirt and ponytail in the photo.) He did an excellent job. MORE
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 14, 2012
Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. The eleven nonprofits below are good examples to model your avatar design upon.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 14, 2012
Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. The eleven nonprofits below are good examples to model your avatar design upon.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 22, 2007
Fanton's Avatar Looks Like Him! Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Sitting in the event for the MacArthur Foundation
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2007
A photo from this afternoon's protest poster and t-shirt making workshop that is part of RootsCampSL "J27 Events for Peace " Building stuff together in Second Life is where great learning takes place.The workshop leader was errcheck Hick (you can see his read t-shirt and ponytail in the photo.) He did an excellent job.
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? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. What are the logistics of working the avatar?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 23, 2006
I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Then I teleported off to the Berkman Center discussion on Avatar Marketing.
Frogloop
APRIL 21, 2008
By creating avatars to represent online protesters, Ramaker has twice used a unique approach to get tangible results. The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. The Plan: What was the strategy behind the avatar campaign and the general description?
Frogloop
APRIL 21, 2008
By creating avatars to represent online protesters, Ramaker has twice used a unique approach to get tangible results. The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. The Plan: What was the strategy behind the avatar campaign and the general description?
Rebooting Charity
MARCH 22, 2007
And did you read that apparently avatars consume as much electricity as your average Brazilian (is there such a thing?). I’ve got as far as creating my avatar (&# Joe Boa&# ), but I’m with Amy Gahran: Second Life: I’ve enough going on in my First Life , thanks
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Yet everyday on Twitter and (especially) Facebook nonprofits are sending out hundreds of thousands of Tweets and Status Updates with completely wrecked avatars. The visual appeal of your social media avatar is very important to the success of building your online brand.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 22, 2013
At the core of the brand is the Nonprofit Organizations avatar which has been used consistently since then to build a visual brand across many social networks ( Facebook , Twitter , Pinterest , etc). The “Nonprofit Organizations” brand was launched in February 2005 on Myspace.
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It allows you to create 3D avatars in a fun and safe virtual world and that too for free. IMVU is sort of a virtual world that was established in 2004 and was very popular at that time. It is basically a multiplayer online video game that brings people together on an online platform.
AFP Blog
JUNE 11, 2007
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Second Lifers May Soon Get a New Way to Talk: "Second Lifers May Soon Get a New Way to TalkIn the virtual-reality world Second Life, cartoonlike characters known as “avatars” communicate through instant messages. Avatars know someone is chatting with them when his or her hands pantomime tapping a computer keyboard while a message appears on the screen.That.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
DECEMBER 12, 2006
Pipes (1) Nonprofit 2.0 , Second Life , nptech More proof Second Life is a boondoggle (well, sort of) 12.12.06 | 154 14 Comments [link] More+proof+Second+Life+is+a+boondoggle+%28well%2C+sort+of%29 2006-12-13+04%3A21%3A50 Allan+Benamer Hilarious yet fascinating blog post about the energy consumption of an avatar in Second Life… courtesy of the sciam.blog.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Beyond the obvious graphic design work, what’s exceptionally clever is that they have created long vertical profile pics that when cropped in Status Updates produce a solid, square avatar that’s seen by their Fans in their News Feeds.
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OCTOBER 3, 2015
Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters. On your nonprofit’s website, the head office should offer a downloadable version of your nonprofits primary avatar (250 x 250 pixels). If they do not have the capacity, then the head office must customize the avatar for them.
AFP Blog
MARCH 2, 2010
After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.".
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 5, 2012
Next, hover over your nonprofit’s avatar and upload a profile picture. As I have said many, many times your avatar a.k.a. Building a powerful visual brand of your nonprofit’s avatar is crucial on all social networking sites and a cropped, messy logo a.k.a.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 1, 2012
In that case, go to Bing Images and search by color (to match your nonprofit’s avatar ) and you’ll be presented with hundreds of potential header images that could look as good as the eleven chosen by the early adopter nonprofits listed below: 1.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 17, 2014
Larger Avatar :: 400×400 Pixels :: @ UnicefNZ. This week Twitter began its roll out of a new Twitter Profile design and at any moment your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile could have a completely different look and functionality.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 7, 2013
An Avatar :: 200 x 200 pixels. Your avatar should compliment or be extracted from your logo: 2. Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks.
TechImpact
JULY 28, 2014
These alerts usually shows your avatar and often time your bio. Make sure your avatar and bio information is up to date and start actively following as people in your community. Image courtesy of Home Business Rotator.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 20, 2013
Retweets ensure than your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on Twitter which ultimately results in more followers and click-through rates. They want to know there’s a human being behind your avatar.
Byte Technology
AUGUST 8, 2017
It includes very cool features such as a custom login form and avatars for your users that appear in the menu bar as well as in submitted posts and the authors list section.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 22, 2007
There are almost 200 hundred avatars here and it's twenty minutes before the event! Check out the article on the New York Times
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. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ?
Gyrus
MAY 31, 2016
Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Your NGO has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. Donors and followers will associate your NGO with your avatar.
John Haydon
MARCH 1, 2012
Change your main avatar picture. As you may know by now, Facebook Pages will automatically migrate over to a completely new format on March 30th. You do not want to wait until 9:00PM on the 29th to start figuring this out!
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. You’ll need a photo editing tool to drag and drop your logo or avatar onto your images, but the extra step is worth your time.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 8, 2013
Step 2: Select “Feature your channel” to add your avatar to all your videos. Seemingly less than 1% of nonprofit have upgraded to YouTube’s new One Channel design , but even fewer appear to be utilizing YouTube’s new InVideo Programming option.
SocialFish
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Simplify Your Profile Picture – The new profile picture (AKA avatar) is now 180 pixels square. You don’t need to include the name of your organization in your main avatar because the name of your Facebook page travels with your avatar everywhere on Facebook.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
It’s grunt work which many nonprofit’s do not have the time for or the endurance to maintain, but every time your nonprofit does one of the six actions listed below, your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on the Social Web – and as a result more fans and followers.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 17, 2009
With a just a couple of clicks, Twitter Mosaic allows you to create a mosaic of the avatars of your Twitter Followers that can be placed on t-shirts, tote bags, mousepads, mugs, business cards, etc.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 20, 2011
over being “Heather Mansfield,” but writing and promoting Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits has required that I step out of my comfort zone a bit and put a face and voice to human being behind the “Nonprofit Organizations” avatar. Truth be told, I much prefer the anonymity of being “Nonprofit Organizations” online ( Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , etc.)
TechImpact
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Upload an avatar, and fill out a short blurb about your nonprofit in the bio. Image courtesy of The Telegraph. Twitter is a powerful tool for any nonprofit. It is, in simply put, a free messenger that instantly connects your nonprofit to hundreds of millions of possible constituents.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 1, 2012
11 Excellent Examples of Nonprofit Avatars. Now that nonprofits are officially in the throes of peak fundraising season, upgrading to the new Twitter profile design launched on September 18 is likely low on the priority lists of many nonprofit communications and fundraising staff.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 11, 2012
Thus, you can not upload an avatar or photos on the desktop version, or browse who’s following you or who you are following.
SocialFish
MARCH 30, 2012
It’s just nowhere near enough. “Humanizing” is MUCH more than having a real face instead of a logo as your avatar. A lot of the stuff you’re probably reading online about “humanizing your brand” is about social media tactics.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 23, 2006
People think I'm nuts that my business card features my SL avatar. in a decade virtual worlds will be normal Originally uploaded by lynetter. Maybe I am or maybe I just have a talent for future trend analysis
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 5, 2006
Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). It's called: Change the World by Working in a Virtual One.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 9, 2011
They have personality and its obvious that there is a human being behind the avatar. Finding your Twitter voice is an accomplishment only earned through a process of trial and error and conscious experimentation.
NetWits
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way. This is a guest post by Jesse Noyes. He’s a Corporate Reporter at Eloqua.
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