Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

An online database of Twitter Apps called oneforty currently lists almost 2,900 third-party Twitter Apps. on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone or through the site itself. They may not even know the tools exist.

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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.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Working within the confines of an almost non-existent online communications budget, my primary responsibilities were to maintain our website and publish a twice-monthly e-newsletter, quarterly print newsletter, and numerous print fundraising appeals through out the year. You need a good avatar. can produce significant ROI is a myth.

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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.), Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.),

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? Despite the fact that social media evolves quickly and news spreads fast online, success on social media and online communications does not happen overnight. 5) Launch a mobile version of www.pancan.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). ” Snaps are picture or video messages that can be sent directly to Friends or shared to your nonprofit’s Story. Share your first Snap to “My Story.” snapchat.com/add/whitehouse.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Last month, I presented at the NCVO Foresight seminar: Changing ICT – what does it mean for your charity with a focus on the future of online revenue generation for nonprofit organizations. If people are fundraising for you online, do you know about it? That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Avatar - Square image up to 700k, consistently branded. Not all logos translate will into a square format or can be easily recognized when shrunk down, so be sure it will fit well before you put it as your profile picture. Some organizations choose to use a picture of the person in charge of the tweets instead of a logo.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

campaign's objective was to encourage social media activists to show solidarity with the Red Cross by displaying Red Cross PSAs, videos, photos, widgets, on their online spaces. We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." " Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2009

On the heels of the NTEN webinar on Community Building and Management showing nonprofit organizations how to socially enable their missions, Carie Lewis of the Humane Society of the United States has launched the TAFA Online Community for the 2009 Taking Action for Animals conference. A Flickr gallery of all TAFA pictures from last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. So this goes way beyond just web pages and pictures, the identity. D) is to sending a letter with your picture in it as web 3.0(D) So this goes way beyond just web pages and pictures, the identity.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

While most donations are still received offline, online fundraising is an important tool, especially when trying to attract new donors. Blackbaud released an infographic earlier this week at the 2011 Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits depicting how offline and online fundraising go hand in hand.

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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. What's this all about"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. 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. s big-ticket stories, online applications (like our carbon calculator ), or priority social media presences, I???ll Hey, here???s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Wordle is an online tool that allows you to easily create word clouds. Using Wordle, nonprofits could generate word clouds that add some color and creativity to their online fundraising and outreach campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I still hadn’t been able to talk to my husband, but my mother-in-law had gotten word to him that we were headed East on I-10, and he was able to track my progress via our online, real-time credit card statement. I’d have taken a picture and figured out TwitPic. All grounded. We frequently had no radio stations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. This meant we could watch the activity online and amplify it or respond to questions. When we asked people to mention us online, we sent them a calendar invite as a reminder. This was a neat trick.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Given the difficulties of face to face politics and public space control, many of the people 30 and under stay home where they can be online and be free. The internet can be problematic – some of the debates can become quite divisive online instead of cohesion. They are inventing it for themselves. Even in China?

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