Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Movember is a fundraiser that challenges men to change their appearance by growing a mustache. Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. A heavily commented photo will show up in people’s news feeds (because of all the activity), which can really help promote the message.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. You need a good avatar. Social media is not free!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2011

On Monday, June 20 I had the pleasure of attending the opening sessions of the Games for Change pre-conference at NYU, on behalf of TechSoup. The Games for Change festival is the premiere gathering place for developers, activists, educators, funders, policymakers, and gamers in the field of "serious games."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

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 ). In 2013, I am focused on changing that. The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

It's called: Change the World by Working in a Virtual One. Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

When you try to explain how the Web can be used for social change to a colleague, family member or friend, do they get a glazed and confused look in their eye? Examples: Users' Earthday photos and the LGBT photo pool • YahooGroups , "Start a new group or join an existing group. Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Photo by Leah Jones. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. Here's a widget I created for Breast Cancer social change campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. He sees the changes and pops the cartridge into his gaming system. It did so by changing into something Alex would like to play.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

My Return on Investment (ROI) from using Pinterest to promote Nonprofit Organizations is somewhere between minimal and better-than-expected, but using the site on a regular basis has fundamentally changed how I think about social media and the people who use it. You are going to need to know where to find photos online and how to source them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."--Lev Photo credit: Globe uploaded by Karol M. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. nptech time you net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

campaign's objective was to encourage social media activists to show solidarity with the Red Cross by displaying Red Cross PSAs, videos, photos, widgets, on their online spaces. 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

DECEMBER 22, 2007

The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. There is a category for Changing the World. Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. Go vote here.

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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. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Using facial morphing software to change a player''s avatar to a different ethnicity, we fed the game with hundreds of photos that were judged in a "hot or not" type interface and gave players a view of how intelligent, attractive, and trustworthy others perceived them to be as two different ethnicities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Photo by Peacemaker. Susan Tenby, on the Second Life and Nonprofits Blog, reports what it is like to be in the middle of it all: The griefing made it dizzying and unpleasant to be in the NPC sim, but I was still able to talk to avatars. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay." re what we feel when we???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Most of the stunning visuals are shot by Scott himself (he says if anyone shoots 1,000 photos, at least one will be a powerful image). The whole way nonprofits operate will change in 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Upload more photos. and Web 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Upload more photos. and Web 3.0.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. This is interesting to me because Second Life is quite the opposite - there is a huge investment in learning the tools, there is no audio (although that is changing) and it is all visual.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Upload more photos. The Facebook algorithim has changed significantly since the release of Social Media for Social Good. The default landing tab function no longer exists and d imensions have changed with the launch of Timeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. For instance, you’d do this if you wanted to give credit to that true friend who took that photo of you from all your best angles. A user’s visual identity in the form of a photo on their account or a cartoon of themselves in a message.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

He hasn't changed anything under the hood to accomplish this; he just drives in an extremely efficient manner. As the article says: The fcd changed the driving game for Wayne. There are people posting photos of their fcd displays on the internet to brag about these high fuel efficiency scores. All from a simple display."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Use a photo editing such as Canva or Photoshop (to change the background color of your Snapcode) to drag and drop your nonprofit’s logo or avatar inside of the Snapchat ghost. You must stay within the black lines of the white ghost for your Snapcode will work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

CamClickr is based on a mundane activity: look at photos snapped by webcams pointed at nests and describe what's happening. And while looking at nests is interesting for a while, the intrinsic motivation to look at another set of 15 photos of chicks with their mouths open is (for me) pretty low. Are there chicks? Are there eggs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

document your virtual work through photos/video to show other programs and funders who may not be in SL), tips for bringing a youth development model into Teen SL (e.g., via Spare Change Tip Jar. via Spare Change Tip Jar. These include general tips (e.g., use real world content when addressing real world issues).

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