Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Read Susan Reynold 's statement. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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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. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. I mention this only because my life is now directly impacted by cancer in ways I could not have predicted a few months ago. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do.

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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. They used twitter to drive comments to the blog - each comment would generated 100 pound donation. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 22, 2005

27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Instead of running around tracks in their hometowns, participants will guide their onscreen representatives (known as avatars) around a virtual track designed and displayed in cyberspace. billion for the organization.

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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. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Well, if y’all don’t know Sabrina, dang, she’s been blogging for us. And in 2018, as you saw, as I hurriedly got on to this to this presentation, I was diagnosed with cancer and I felt I needed to retire. Steven: For South Texas, that’s. You got to check her out. She’s been an ED.

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