Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. The Flickr stream is here. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. See the range of creative expression in the flickr group. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ?

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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. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. You’ll need a photo editing tool to drag and drop your logo or avatar onto your images, but the extra step is worth your time. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Dipity :: dipity.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

You need a good avatar. Finally, if they need to spend $50 for a premium Tumbler design or $25 a year for Flickr Pro, they have the green light to do so. You need Twitter and YouTube backgrounds that make a strong first impression. You need a very well designed blog or no one is going to take it seriously.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. 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? "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m. I reserved my seat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Read Susan Reynold 's statement. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. Notes from a Brainstorm The overarching concern of Hiroshi is a potential split in the disability community over new technology, particularly in the broadband age. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. The video(s) does not need to be highly-produced or expensive, but it should be positive, on the short side, and integrated into all your nonprofit’s communications: VIDEO: Thank You from Operation Smile.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?" • Flickr , "Show how rewarding it is to volunteer, to highlight issues that need extra attention, or to show pride in your cause." Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from.

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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. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes. Check out my flickr photos of the event and my desktop

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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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. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

Avatars and links to profiles for Twitter-ers in the Community. A Flickr gallery of all TAFA pictures from last year. A Register now button (helping engage and excite visitors first then pulling them to join the event). Tweetup invite and signup , with the number of registrants appearing in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. Don't forget to tag your blog posts, flickr photos, videos, and tasty links with Nptech tag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one). The places with more than a handful of avatars present always seem to increase the probability of trouble though. If you have problems IM Rosie Luna and Futura Fortas. If there???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

You’ll need to invest in a photo-editing software or app that will allow you to edit, crop and insert text or your nonprofit’s logo or avatar into your photos. Photos with Your Nonprofit’s Logo or Avatar. Related Links: Webinar: YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest for Nonprofits. Social Security & Medicare .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon! A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. 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. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. 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. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Cogdog has his presentation "Being There" on flickr too. His notes on his blog. He's talking about the network effect: My suggestion is that ???expertise??? expertise??? embodied in a single person is a quasi myth, and the suggested route is to ???be??? in your own constructed network that provides distributed expertise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. 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. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? Our Flickr photo contest. t we just use Flickr???s That way, we let Flickr and Yahoo worry about developing the technology while we???re

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Flickr: HeathBrandon Even in a world where information overload is the norm, NTEN Members know how to get the word out – and even discuss how they curate information. Her first tip: Use your nonprofit’s avatar as your profile picture! Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments!

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MAY 27, 2010

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Picassa) Two examples of the above tools working for nonprofits include a remarkable Twitter success story from Free The Kids and the creative use of social sharing in Pathfinder's Girl2Woman.

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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. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. Twibbon :: twibbon.com.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. PicMarked photos would make a good Flickr slideshow as well. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon! CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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