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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. It’s an easy and effective first step for launching an awareness campaign on Twitter. It also allows you to track your own tweets to see who is favoriting them. Twibbon : Twibbon allows your followers to embed ribbons, icons, etc. channel/BigCatRescue.

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How to Plan a Virtual Holiday Fundraiser

AccelEvents

You could also host a holiday fundraiser to raise awareness and money for a certain charitable cause or business. People want to step away from the digital space, desktop, or laptop every so often, so try to keep sessions and segments short and as engaging as possible. . Perhaps they want to socialize around the “holiday punch”.

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How to Plan a Virtual Holiday Fundraiser

AccelEvents

You could also host a holiday fundraiser to raise awareness and money for a certain charitable cause or business. People want to step away from the digital space, desktop, or laptop every so often, so try to keep sessions and segments short and as engaging as possible. . Perhaps they want to socialize around the “holiday punch”.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. I've packed everything except for my laptop, the wireless router, all seven Avett Brothers CDs, and the beloved coffeemaker. sites were the right way to grow our constituency and awareness online that I dedicated a lot of personal time to pursuing them both before- and after-hours. Hey, here???s

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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