Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. That’s a deal-breaker for some nonprofits, but with the rapid shift to digital, nonprofits that embrace multiple channels for giving will raise the most in the coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Small (and medium-sized) nonprofits have a different experience on social media than large nonprofits. As a result of this temporary decline in social media ROI, web and email campaigns are being rejuvenated and very soon digital payments within social networks will revitalize online fundraising. Get ready!

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

But when it comes to creating an immersive digital event, extra care must be taken to define and understand your audience. If your event is broad in scope, consider creating avatars for each attendee group so you can really take a look at what their motivations may be for attending.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

The platform should enable several different payment options to satisfy the needs of most potential attendees. Virtual attendees will have a lot of different things competing for their attention. For a virtual conference or trade show, help attendees feel more engaged by allowing them to create a custom avatar.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

The platform should enable several different payment options to satisfy the needs of most potential attendees. Virtual attendees will have a lot of different things competing for their attention. For a virtual conference or trade show, help attendees feel more engaged by allowing them to create a custom avatar.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

People want to step away from the digital space, desktop, or laptop every so often, so try to keep sessions and segments short and as engaging as possible. . With this technology, guests can create an avatar and move into different digital spaces. . Perhaps they want to socialize around the “holiday punch”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

But when it comes to creating an immersive digital event, extra care must be taken to define and understand your audience. If your event is broad in scope, consider creating avatars for each attendee group so you can really take a look at what their motivations may be for attending.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

People want to step away from the digital space, desktop, or laptop every so often, so try to keep sessions and segments short and as engaging as possible. . With this technology, guests can create an avatar and move into different digital spaces. . Perhaps they want to socialize around the “holiday punch”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

However, social media can be an effective marketing tool when it is designed and implemented in alignment with an overall marketing plan which includes traditional marketing (brand marketing, collateral, advertising, PR, digital and mobile marketing, etc.). Social media cannot be effective if it is done in a vacuum.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He doesn’t run an organization; He's the digital media manager at Pathways to Education in Toronto. Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# SwipeGood :: swipegood.com. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

This was a rich conversation that raised wonderful questions and debate with different viewpoints -- digital natives and digital immigrants -- their learning styles and technology use patterns, etc. It was also interesting that when they video projected the Second Life environment on the screen, all of us avatars got very tame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

I.e. "Hey, idiot, get your head out of the digital sand and pay attention to things that matter." Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. So, here we have three different approaches to raising awareness about issues in virtual worlds by activists? Educate about your cause.

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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. . What will be different about nonprofits? The point is that there are different levels of transparency for nonprofits and it is knowing where that line is and how transparency can make the organization more effective.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Different industries all over the world are asking themselves how they can sustain their sales models. . 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. Augmented reality in digital spaces. Why Shift to Virtual Events.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

If you, like the rest of the world, have managed to shift to the virtual environment, you may be looking for ways to improve your digital presence. Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. If you want to add any graphic elements, you can, but they will require some digital finessing.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Different industries all over the world are asking themselves how they can sustain their sales models. . 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. Augmented reality in digital spaces. Why Shift to Virtual Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Sadly many of them do not fully understand how social networks are different from traditional online communications and fundraising, and consequently nonprofits are making many mistakes that are hampering their success. If your avatar, banners, and backgrounds are professionally designed, then users are much more likely to become followers.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

If you, like the rest of the world, have managed to shift to the virtual environment, you may be looking for ways to improve your digital presence. Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. If you want to add any graphic elements, you can, but they will require some digital finessing.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. 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?!). It gets interesting!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” SwipeGood :: swipegood.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. ve come to think different. s annual digital photo contest.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

While this can be facilitated digitally, it doesn't take complicated tools to create an environment in which guests are treated personally based on their preferences and interests. The Lab is a hands-on science center focused on creative use of digital technologies. Some allow you to write your life story.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

There are several interactive exhibits throughout the museum where you can swipe your ticket, and save the photo/digital creation produced onsite to a website for later viewing. But museums have different constraints and opportunities when it comes to defining inputs and outputs. They can be clunky and hard to use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. In addition to text quotes, Quoto also has a digital library of quotes embedded on images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. GivingTuesday is a new campaign that encourages individuals and businesses to think differently about the holiday season. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. GivingTuesday :: givingtuesday.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

But it’s important to realize the differences between a short-term campaign (minimal upfront work, strong word of mouth, modest goals, and real-time virality through Twitter) and a longer one. We even broke it into three different tiers (beer, pitcher, and round) to make it straightforward. We did this to give it urgency and purpose.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. GivingTuesday is a new campaign that encourages individuals and businesses to think differently about the holiday season. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. GivingTuesday :: givingtuesday.org.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

The difference now perhaps is that, as algorithms make ever more decisions automatically, ever more of reality takes place behind our backs. The platform for which work is actually being completed hides behind complex multilayered structures, whereby different roles are taken by different sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

But, the tools of the digital revolution are used by those against the regime but are equally used by those in the regimes. It’s very different than your traditional model. At the Guardian our editorial decision is very different than at the BBC. Those users are free to choose whether to use our services or elsewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Perhaps a better title, a "Crashing Success," given that so many avatars showed up that it exceeded the server's and crashed! Check it out.

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