Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Avatar Action Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." " Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

If she or he writes or posts boring content, lacks necessary tech skills such as HTML and photo editing, or doesn’t have an intuitive sense and passion for their online communities, then your social media ROI will be minimal at best. You need a good avatar. Social media is not free! The era of winging it is over.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. Text communications are new for the organization and I have been thrilled to be part of the team working on the project. Please summarize your ROI.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. And that brings us to CamClickr.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

To see which functions communities ???assign??? Meanwhile, funders seek to invest their resources among a wide range of projects that hopefully will lead to larger systemic changes. Something like the NetSquared open call for projects that happened last month, but mapped to a virtual world. vote with their feet,???

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. The project blew away our expectations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

We all make up systems as we go along, we all look for inspiration at non-parallel models, we all incorporate game-theory into our work, and we enjoy thinking about how to bring incentives into the act of participating in our communities. We are thinking in the correct framework of nurturing and cultivating innovation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

We briefly visited Boracay Island - designed by Nick Noakes and the home of communities in practice (and the Vecop group). You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. Gartner recommends that enterprises should experiment with virtual worlds, but not plan massive projects, and look for community benefits rather than commerce. ??? Fourth Law: Understand and contain the downside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2011

The leads of several ground-breaking serious games projects presented their work. iCivics grew out of the OurCourts project, which began in 2008, inspired by the desire of Justice Sandra Day O'Conner for young people to understand the judicial system better. iCivics: Learning How the Government Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. Currently, he's developing new viral strategies to increase exposure, traffic, and donations to projects featured on GlobalGiving. Details will be available soon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

" He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. Educate about your cause. Mobilize: Give people something to do. Provide Hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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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. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

None of the exhibits were initiated by staff; instead, they were developed online by a community of international volunteers via the web and Second Life from January-March of this year. Are community-driven design techniques viable for all kinds of exhibitions (and institutions)? Did we change too much? Did we honor their intentions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. I don't see Second Life as the meat of this project.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

Sibley's company has developed virtual world projects for CBS, AOL, the NBA, Reuters, and many others. And if you’ve ever logged into this brutally confusing new technology, you’ve probably been literally confronted the sense that your avatar, let alone the emperor, has no clothes. Here's his take from the thousand foot level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Sparked.com :: sparked.com.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every time a colleague tells me her museum has just hired a "community person," a part of me cringes. When community managers are the sole masters of their own dominions, two problems arise. I've been this community manager and know these problems first-hand. I don't tell this story with pride; I tell it with shame.

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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

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Sparked.com :: sparked.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Sparked.com :: sparked.com.

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