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The Most Common (Yet Completely Obvious) Mistake Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. The sooner you start using an square avatar, the better.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media.

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4,393 Reasons Why I Like TweetDeck And Other Ways To Drink from the Fire Hydrant

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Spike 55151 I read recently that the reason for "senior moments" - you know when you can't quite recall someone's name in an instant - is because the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information.      What's going on, I wondered.  

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away. So, leave a comment and you might one of the passes.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. " Web 2.0,

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Game Friday: Games that Make You a Better Person (Really!)

Museum 2.0

There are people posting photos of their fcd displays on the internet to brag about these high fuel efficiency scores. I have a friend with a GPS-enabled running watch that tracks his path, and then shows a little animation of an avatar representing him on his last run to "race" the same trail. All from a simple display."

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