Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 8, 2017

All these capabilities make BuddyPress ideal as an internal communication network for your company or as a social network for specific interest groups that can include forums and more. So be sure to check into a WordPress hosting company before you make any decisions: Bluehost is a popular option with many WordPress users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Claim and set up your nonprofit’s LinkedIn Company Page. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Purchase a digital camera.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Large companies and some nonprofits are spending as much as $50,000 to build and launch an a iPhone App. As an iPhone user, I personally would love to download the Apps of my favorite nonprofits and have their avatars displayed on my iPhone. Very expensive. so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Your nonprofit has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. Your nonprofit has claimed your LinkedIn Company Page and you post a minimum of twice monthly. LinkedIn Company Pages are overlooked by most nonprofits, but engagement is often higher than Facebook Pages.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

What are the biggest mistakes business leaders make when it comes to social media for their company? Therefore, take the time to make sure there is brand consistency among all social platforms (logos, avatars, business "about" descriptions, etc.). Laskey : There are three key mistakes business leaders make regarding social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Corporations can be solicited to match up to the first $10,000 in donations made (or more) in exchange for mentioning their company in your email campaigns, on your website, and on social media. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. Double the Donation is only open to U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement? For companies looking to use virtual worlds for marketing, avatar engagement is the Holy Grail.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 5, 2016

If a big swimming event is occurring next week and it is going to be in the hearts and minds of your employees, why not place a game in front of them that allows them to expand on their learnings while advancing their avatars across a cartoony swimming pool? Why not create badges that match your gamification efforts? Pride in your work.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

In that way, for example, players can express themselves by decorating their avatars and showing them to friends and colleagues. The presence of virtual goods augments the interest of the players, who can buy or earn a choice of objects, from clothing to weapons to skills, allowing them to create a unique identity in a social environment.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2012

Siegel's lessons for community management drew on his experience managing communities of all kinds, having worked with companies such as NASA and IBM. Online relationships are built if all interactions happen with the recognition that behind an avatar/handle lies a person. Online Community Is About Relationships.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Should you have a dress and behavior code for staff and others who become "friends", including their avatars? "We advise establishing codes of behavior that apply in any circumstance when an employee is acting as a company representative, whether in a real or virtual environment." " Is it a good use of funds?

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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. Despite the concerns within companies, don???t Gartner's five laws for exploring virtual worlds at the enterprise level. First Law: Virtual worlds are not games, but neither are they a parallel universe (yet). Fifth Law: This is a long haul.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

No, there are scores of companies building and selling systems today that deliver very real value via the real-time web. Here's our list of ten cool companies or services that make use of real-time web in what they do: 10. There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. Real-Time Sharing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Twestival teams around the world are encouraged to think of other ways they can contribute to their selected cause; provide social media training, arrange for a local company to donate products and services, or leverage Twestival to strategize and create awareness. . I have it because it is something I believe in and have a reason to support.

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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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AFP Blog

JULY 27, 2006

And throughout the fantastic landscape, three-dimensional avatars walk and fly and talk - and spend a new and very real form of currency. The virtual world was created by a real-world company, Linden Labs, in 2003 and now numbers some 200,000 members who spend hundreds of thousands a day in 'Linden dollars,' the game's currency.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By shifting to a completely digital event, a publishing company can still make up lost revenues that have been common to the industry in 2020. B2B publishing companies have seen a significant loss in revenue – around 70% of its revenue. Users might have an avatar that can represent them as they move around the virtual space. .

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. Chapter 6 :: Claiming Your Nonprofit’s LinkedIn Company Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. Chapter 6 :: Claiming Your Nonprofit’s LinkedIn Company Page.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By shifting to a completely digital event, a publishing company can still make up lost revenues that have been common to the industry in 2020. B2B publishing companies have seen a significant loss in revenue – around 70% of its revenue. Users might have an avatar that can represent them as they move around the virtual space. .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

Today, a guest post by the wise and attractive Sibley Verbeck, CEO/founder of the Electric Sheep Company. Sibley's company has developed virtual world projects for CBS, AOL, the NBA, Reuters, and many others. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? I see that you???ve Sheva Weeks (Nedra Weinreich in RL).

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A play on words of the infamous emoji; these are customized avatars (see how we learn as we go along?!). KPIs should be decided on before a campaign starts, and your company should have general KPIs that coordinate with your overarching marketing goals. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Hopefully soon we will be able to link the LinkedIn Company Pages of the nonprofits that we add to the “Organizations I Support” field.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Share updates two to three times weekly on your LinkedIn Company Page. Create avatars and banners for your chapters. “Donate” buttons have already been added to YouTube Channels and will soon be added to Google+ Pages. Chapter 12: LinkedIn. Chapter 13: YouTube. Maximize your YouTube SEO using video tags and video titles.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. Some brands or companies love this aspect of live streaming and consider it a positive form of PR, even if it might be negative PR. A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define virtual worlds?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. Some brands or companies love this aspect of live streaming and consider it a positive form of PR, even if it might be negative PR. A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits.

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