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. Photos and slideshows. “+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

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Whether you call she or he a social media manager, a new media manager, or a digital media manager , there’s no doubt that if your nonprofit wants to be successful on the Social Web, then nonprofit executive staff and board need to begin to seriously consider allocating funds to a social media manager position.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others. However, it is worth noting that in Google+ you can configure your privacy settings to make your Google+ Profile visible to everyone on the Web or just those in your “Circle. Add Google’s +1 button to your website and blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. With Screenr’s web-based recorder, there’s nothing to download. Screenr : Instant screencasts for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Here's the update I received along with the photo above. According to the web site, that is 20 Euros per month. ). blogs and popular websites, generating visits to the video and the web, and. I try base my opinions on research.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Subtlety is an art on the Social Web. Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. 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 ). Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. A heavily commented photo will show up in people’s news feeds (because of all the activity), which can really help promote the message. Sample Communications Really Help. Being a Tease Helps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

It will automatically pull in your avatar, apply your Twitter username to your Pinterest account (such as pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ), and sync your account with Twitter in case you occasionally want to share Pinterest Pins with your Twitter community. If you have a Twitter account, sign up with your Twitter username and password.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

HealthCare.gov , the federal web site that is officially charged with helping consumers make sense of the new health insurance landscape, was substantially improved this month. They have also taken care to ensure that their logo scales well in avatar form (whenever their photo appears alongside one of their posts in a timeline).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. Whether or not it is just Second Life, it is emblematic of a handful of issues that surround the Web 2.0 To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

When you try to explain how the Web can be used for social change to a colleague, family member or friend, do they get a glazed and confused look in their eye? Examples: Users' Earthday photos and the LGBT photo pool • YahooGroups , "Start a new group or join an existing group. Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

To get started, nonprofit social media managers need to learn and feel comfortable with taking a lot of photos at events, on the street, in the office, and on site visits. You are going to need to know where to find photos online and how to source them. Photos with Powerful Statistics: Posted on Facebook by the One Campaign.

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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. I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. NMC Flickr Photos. local time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. ") I walked around the space and chatted with the avatar who was the human involved in the project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. Isn't the goal of the social web to create an us, a sense of connection, a community? Photo credit: Globe uploaded by Karol M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Photo by Spike 55151 I read recently that the reason for "senior moments" - you know when you can't quite recall someone's name in an instant - is because the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information.      What's going on, I wondered.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

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. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 or more like web 1.0?)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Static Web” with “Web 1.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 This was the first time I observed the use of "retweeting" a fundraising message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements. Nonprofits, and the UK - check out this article from the ICT Hub on Web 2.0 Don't forget to tag your blog posts, flickr photos, videos, and tasty links with Nptech tag! And while we're looking at Web2.0, by Simon Pavitt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Static Web” with “Web 1.0:

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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. This is where things like web meeting tools, co-browsing, and such can be useful. What I notice about web meeting tools is that most of us don't know how to make the most of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Here's a few: Web 3.0:

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Introduction :: Integrating Web 1.0, and Web 3.0. Replace the “Web 1.0: The Static Web” with “Web 1.0: The Broadcast Web.” ” Social Media for Social Good is written as a how-to, step-by-step strategic plan for nonprofits in three parts: Web 1.0: The Static Web, Web 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Most of the stunning visuals are shot by Scott himself (he says if anyone shoots 1,000 photos, at least one will be a powerful image). If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

If you think about it, there are two reasons to tag things: to bookmark them for yourself so you can use them later to describe them for a large group of users who might find them helpful in finding things later I tag things on the Web all the time using Delicious. But I do it because it's useful to me as an organizational tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

It will be interesting to see if in time Snapcash becomes useful for fundraising or if text or web-based content becomes more integrated into the Snapchat tool set. How to Add Friends on Snapchat Using Snapcodes. You must stay within the black lines of the white ghost for your Snapcode will work.

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