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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JANUARY 1, 2018

While in detention, these four characters discover an old video game system with a Jumanji cartridge already inserted into the console. 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.

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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. Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. This post was written for the NetSquared blog.

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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). The Social Media Roadblock. I would have started a hashtag for Twitter.

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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. You can find a collection how-to YouTube and Viral Video strategy resources here. There is a category for Changing the World. Details here. Go vote here.

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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.

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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. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Events continue through Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Photo by Peacemaker. According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. re helpless to change something huge, like intrenched sexism, in the communities and industries we call home."

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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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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. . Scott and his team travel with digital still and video cameras everywhere they go. 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).

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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. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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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

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???? One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest!

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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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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

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. Vine is Twitter’s mobile app that can be used to create and share 6-second videos on Twitter.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 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. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 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. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. What's this all about"?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 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. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 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. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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