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He was participating via SecondLife as an on-screen avatar. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? You can read more about it on Barry’s blog.

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What's the opportunity cost when a nonprofit blocks employees from using social network sites during work hours?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Since the great wall fell, we've been able to promote initiatives like the Western Union Foundation contest to all of our chapters and blood regions. But, realize that it shouldn't be a yes or no question. that are easy to grab and use.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My friends responding with public questions about what else was needed or suggesting fundraising strategies. As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. What questions are you asking?

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? That was a question posed on a listserv with little response except for this observation: Micro-campaign 'competitions' are not going to last as an effective means of NPO fundraising.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! era websites. You know what?

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Labor Day Thoughts: Getting Admin Staff on the Floor

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Few would contest their value and service to institutions that generally pay them poorly for the often monotonous work of facilitating smooth, positive guest experiences. Instead, this post is an open question: how involved should admin staff be with the floor experience? And the second most important place is alongside the newbies.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This meant we could watch the activity online and amplify it or respond to questions. One possibility would have been to temporarily change our avatars to include a visual cue–like the Visible Government maple leaf–for all those officially behind the campaign. We were able to direct people here if they had questions.

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