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. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. As an early adopter of social media, in the early days of blogging (circa 2003) it was fairly easy to connect and maintain relationships with people you online and later connected at a blogging conference or meet up offline.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Each board member had a give of 500, a give of 5,000 and if it was in the green for that quarter, that meant they were on track. And so what they did was they created an avatar and every kid that came through their program got a teddy bear so they would not feel like they were alone. It was in a yellow, they were a little behind.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For example, the internet was important because it was difficult to organize offline. In Iran the regime hasn’t yet shown itself to be as savvy as the green movement. I think underlying slacktivism isn’t enough – you can’t just turn your profile green. So, the answer is yes as a tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. 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! Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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