Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter. 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.

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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. Over time and through implementing the best practices listed below and those yet to come, you will find your Google+ voice.

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APRIL 18, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2011

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. The successful use of social media requires a significant time investment. You need a good avatar. Here are five reasons why: 1.

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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.), My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop.

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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

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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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. local time). Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. It starts in the home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. 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.

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JULY 24, 2009

Tweetup invite and signup , with the number of registrants appearing in real time. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

I still can't believe that Nick and Shirley were doing this at midnight or 1:00 am their time! If there is time there will be more boxes to search for. 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). If there???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Social Networking There's still time to contribute a post to the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants compilation of Nonprofit Use of Social Networking Tools. Don't forget to tag your blog posts, flickr photos, videos, and tasty links with Nptech tag! " If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0

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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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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???? Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Details are here.

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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. Like any other communications and fundraising tool, social media requires staff time, training, experience, hardware and software. ” and how destructive it is.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

There was no time to get in any more final edits and I feared that the book would be terribly out of date by the time it was released. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet. As I said in the book and many times since, there are no cutting corners on the Social Web. and Web 3.0.

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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. 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. Our Flickr photo contest. t we just use Flickr???s

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. BAM, time to tell the story.

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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. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. 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

MARCH 8, 2013

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding. This was the first time we met face-to-face! The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. CharityRadio :: charityradioshow.com. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Listeners opt-in to receive a phone call at show time and no dial-in is required. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. CharityRadio :: charityradioshow.com. Clipix :: clipix.com.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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