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Encouraging Networking at Your Virtual Event

AccelEvents

Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. If you have the resources to put together a video guide, as well as written instructions, this can have a powerful impact and lead to greater attendee satisfaction and overall improved experience. . Hold Pre-event Sessions.

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Encouraging Networking at Your Virtual Event

AccelEvents

Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. If you have the resources to put together a video guide, as well as written instructions, this can have a powerful impact and lead to greater attendee satisfaction and overall improved experience. . Hold Pre-event Sessions.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Lucy Bernholz captured the video stream from blog.tv Virtual to Reality Blog.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. text, graphics and video? Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? I also have been around this.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. But that’s already sounding like the grandiose hype you read about Second Life or virtual worlds. So what does this mean for museums?