Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

It should also detail as least three actions that your donors and supporters can take on the awareness day, such as make a donation, sign a petition, share the page with their social networks, become a volunteer, and so on. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and the hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2011

The last time YouTube rolled out a new design you could toggle back and forth for a few months while they worked out bugs and tweaked design based on user feedback, but the days are numbered for the current design that we have become accustomed to. That said, the avatars of your subscribers can now be found only under “Community.&#

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FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Finally, once you have either logged in to your Gmail Account or created a new one and selected the “You+” link, do not be tempted to convert your new personal Google+ Profile into brand (for example, first name “Amnesty” and last name “International”) to avoid being on Google+ personally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. If your nonprofit has yet to get on Google+, now would be a very good time to start. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

So, when setting up your Google Profile be sure to use you real first name and last name (not first name “Amnesty” and last name “International,” for example). Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Simple enough. Now join Google+.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. It doesn’t work, however. Don’t Use News Feeds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Whether you’ve been using social media for years, months, or days or you have yet to get started, the information and strategies in this chapter can save you a lot of time and frustration. If your nonprofit is on the right track with social media, then you’ll notice an increase in the metrics from month to month over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Brand pages are expected to be launched some time this fall. So, when setting up your Google Profile be sure to use you real first name and last name (not first name “Amnesty&# and last name “International,&# for example). Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. heathermansfield.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest. I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring.

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JULY 14, 2010

is dynamic — blogs, wikis, and social networks that connect people in your community; Web 3.0 is mobile — your web presence is accessible on multiple platforms like text messages and smartphone apps, increasing the relevance of real time and location. Tools Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts.

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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. . Some of the future has already arrived, so may be talk about those examples. It was funny at the time). If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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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. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

" Susan Tenby writes in the comments about the special qualities of Second Life: There are few places where the security issues and the individual time of a member are rendered less significant. t be able to meet with in the real world (for example,business executives, celebrities and those in remote locations).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. t think at this time that SL wants to be a WOW. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

" She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Take for example her write up on Games for Change. social marketing,??? I think to be successful, you also need to follow a systematic process for developing your social marketing strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Snapchat is a mobile app where users share snaps with one another, but unlike other visual social networks, the snaps disappear once they are viewed. You need unique, real-time content that appeals to Snapchat’s teen and millennial user base and that requires time and resources that many nonprofits simply do not have.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. Virtual worlds are the first communication medium where people can remotely have shared experiences—not just communicating in real time, but interacting with each other and with content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Last year, Alan invited me to keynote the New Media Consortium ’s virtual conference to talk about the future of social and nonprofits. 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. I struck out.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. To see a live example, view the Wibbitz Demo. For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. nonprofitorgs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 sites were the right way to grow our constituency and awareness online that I dedicated a lot of personal time to pursuing them both before- and after-hours.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. Based in the U.K., Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook.

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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. It's a warning sign when community members make comments like , "it was only boundless encouragement from Avi (Nina's Second Life avatar) that prevented me from giving up more than once."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Consider, for example, the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City. At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. They constitute a kind of mini-profile, frequently updated, which reflects the author's self-expression over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) In a real-time campaign, your copywriting isn’t done when you publish the site. How it worked. What worked? What did we learn?

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