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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? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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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. that are easy to grab and use.

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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. You can find a collection how-to YouTube and Viral Video strategy resources here. Do contests and competitions help build social capital and nonprofit fund raising or inspire burnout? View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign. Details here.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This one was very creative, dubbed " Trick or Tweet " focused on retweeting, incorporated a contested, and was cooked up by the good folks at FutureNow.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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! and asking for ideas.

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[Webinar Notes] Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Webinar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Add call-to-action overlays to your YouTube videos that link to e-newsletter subscribe page. Include video icons and shortened links to relevant videos. Maximize your YouTube SEO using video tags and video titles. Conduct video interviews with speakers and attendees and host the videos on YouTube or Instagram.

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s relevant to their lives, an interesting or funny video clip, an event or social movement that they want to make a difference in. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? The key is in figuring out what would be the big draw that people would want to share with their circle of friends, whether it???s I see that you???ve