Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Avatar Action Center.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace launched in 2003, and yet nine years into the Social Web the vast majority of nonprofits have not invested any financial resources at all into graphic design for their social media campaigns. You need a good avatar. You need Twitter and YouTube backgrounds that make a strong first impression.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Premium - This is design and modeling software for larger civil engineering projects like transportation, land use, and water projects. They were used for visual effects, for instance, in the James Cameron film, Avatar. This suite has five programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e, Text communications are new for the organization and I have been thrilled to be part of the team working on the project. Lastly, to be effective you must stay up-to-speed on the rapidly changing landscape of social media. 5) Launch a mobile version of www.pancan.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

It will also be interesting to see how resource allocation works in a land of virtual real estate. Meanwhile, funders seek to invest their resources among a wide range of projects that hopefully will lead to larger systemic changes. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. To see which functions communities ???assign???

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 5, 2016

In the LMS market, we’re no strangers to competition, with projections marking as many as 700 providers in the marketplace, it sort of feels like we are participating in our own Olympics every day. Statements like, “Did you see John in Human Resources has 35 Gold Medals?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. He said: “It’s a unique place where it’s easy to marshal NPTech resources like on my txtocracy project.

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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. That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

Hey Have Fun * Do Gooders, Many of you know that I work as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of TechSoup. Part of my job is to help put together Net Tuesdays in San Francisco, monthly meetings for social changemakers and web innovators to socialize, network and share resources. I am a total Second Life newbie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. You can find a collection how-to YouTube and Viral Video strategy resources here. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Allan Benamer has written a post called Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better Than Second Life. I think the title should have been more aptly "Why Project Agape's Cause Is Better ROI for Fundraising Than Second Life in 2007!" Exploring a tool with a low risk experiment to see if it is the right fit is not a waste of resources.

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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. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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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. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Top Rated Resources at Kikono. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. Given that you are starting a virtual representation of people - you may be proned to projection. How might it influence your choice of using Second Life for a project? How much does this help or hinder effective collaboration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. It also serves a resource leave behind! Unplugged Research an action research project which will explore the question: How do telecentres make 'web 2.0' It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 This resources is always good for a laugh. e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 This resources is always good for a laugh. e-Newsletter. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The project was a chaotic experiment in several ways, and because things kept changing, the community had to keep relying on me as their sole source of information about how things would move forward. While my energy and enthusiasm as a community leader held the group together, once I left at the end of my project, the community fell apart.

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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. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 e-Newsletter [see right column]. e-Newsletter [see right column]. Zeen :: zeen.com.

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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. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 This resources is always good for a laugh. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com.

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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. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 This resources is always good for a laugh. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 This resources is always good for a laugh. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. e-Newsletter.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Check out the Digital Hero Book Project. Maybe it is time to re-read the nonprofit version of Flipping the Funnel ?

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