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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Follow More on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My guess is that they don’t want to follow a lot of Twitterers because they don’t want to clutter their “Home” feed, and I understand that, but nonprofits can easily manage the chaos of following hundreds or thousands Twitterers by simply organizing them into Twitter Lists. As of today that number is 82,250.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. into Google+.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit IT Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He uses a red haired avatar , so that has been my mental image of him. I'm not in as much turbo mode as he was (after all I'm a part-time blogger). So the work flow goes -- check for new comments, respond, check RSS feeds, decide whether to write about it, rinse cycle and repeat.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones.