Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

The successful use of social media requires a significant time investment. To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

.&# It’s worth noting that beginning July 31 Google will delete all private Google Profiles (this best practice will then be revised to reflect the new sign up process), so at the very least your first name, last name, and profile picture will be public. Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Learn Basic HTML. Keep it simple and on the short side.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Your nonprofit must always be proactive and reserve your username on social networks. To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). The same can be said of the new legally verified.NGO domains. snapchat.com/add/whitehouse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door! Not really.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Like I said at the beginning, it’s important for organizations to move into the social media space using the processes that are accepted and successful, with the focus on being transparent and real, and so on. So, how do you respond?

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2011

Similar discussions surfaced last year during Iran’s Green Revolution, when many people on social media overlaid a green shade to their avatars and profile pictures to show their solidarity with the people of Iran. Yet due to old fashion organizing on the ground, the protests have escalated.

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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. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars.

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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. It’s not a way to do it socially. Websites are more like picture books about the museum—in virtual worlds, you can have a social, real-time, interactive experience.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. USTREAM :: ustream.tv. Twibbon :: twibbon.com.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I imagine I’d have tweeted our intentions, and queried my network to determine whether anyone needed a ride on our backseat. I don’t know if we’d have welcomed a male passenger we only knew through social networking. I’d have taken a picture and figured out TwitPic. All grounded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. So each time we complete a major effort on these social media venues, we measure our results and report back on our progress. popularity into other social news networks. but now that we???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Not only does this keep your campaign transparent it help you build you reputation and social capital making it more likely you will get those people back for a donation. The duration of your campaign affects which social networks you’ll rely on. But we didn’t see the viral growth among others’ networks that we’d have liked.

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