Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is an immersive, interactive, and social platform where people can create avatars to represent themselves, buy and sell virtual property, and interact with other users in real-time. . The Metaverse offers nonprofits a variety of ways to engage with potential donors and bring awareness to your mission. Nonprofits and the Metaverse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

For the WeAreMedia Module 4: Spreading Awareness and Buzz With Social Media , the community has built an awesome resource - lots of tips, resources, and ideas from people's experience. 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

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. One metric for me in measuring success, was I able to inspire other people to take action? (at It generated some valuable insights from donors.

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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. How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life? You would measure it in the same way you measure the success of an exhibit or a museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. 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. Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do.

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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. Megabloggers like Tim O’Reilly , Om Malik , Austin Hill , Michael Geist , Tara Hunt , Mathew Ingram and others generated a ton of traffic and awareness.

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