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. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Fill out a query to search “everything” for your nonprofit’s name and acronym. 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.

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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. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. If you name your group after your nonprofit, then your horizontal logo is fine for your LinkedIn group’s avatar. It needs to be a strong avatar that makes a solid first impression.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

They want a human behind the avatar. Another reason to sync your MySpace and Twitter accounts is that MySpace profiles more often that not still show up in the Top 10 search results on Google. Supporters searching for your organization in Google will often find your MySpace profile and see that it has been abandoned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Add Google’s +1 button to your desktop and mobile websites and blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Similar to adding hashtags to tweets, you can also add hashtags to descriptions to increase the likelihood of your nonprofit’s pins showing up in Pinterest searches. Be sure to use common search terms or hashtags and avoid being a hashtag spammer. Add your logo or avatar to your images. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Add search functionality. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Write social media and mobile technology policies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

As an iPhone user, I personally would love to download the Apps of my favorite nonprofits and have their avatars displayed on my iPhone. A quick search of the term “nonprofit&# in the iTunes App store returns less than 50 Apps, and most of those are miscategorized Apps. so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Video-Based Training: Video streaming has been around for quite some time, however, the new millennium has seen a sudden upsurge in the online streaming space, with YouTube becoming the second popular search engine after Google. Companies like IBM, Cisco are already using virtual platforms for meetings, interviews, and employee training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

In addition there are also popular awareness days that are national and local (search“awareness days”). Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and the hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. Many of the international days are sanctioned by the United Nations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Your nonprofit has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. Search, claim, set up, and then post a minimum of twice monthly to keep it current. Tools like Canva and Pablo make it super easy. This is Social Media 101, but a best practice still not widely adopted by most small nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

When Twitter first launched it did not have a search function, so to be able to have conversations via Tweets beyond Replies, hashtags were necessary. I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

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. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

A public search has a way of getting in front of new eyes, thus new donors and sponsors. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. Other ideas for promotion include an ad in your print newsletter and listing the opportunity on your “More Ways to Give” page.

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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

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). Be sure to name the image file “your_nonprofit_name_snapcode” so your Snapcode shows up high in Google Image Search.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

You can list your full organization name in the bio section, allowing people to search for you. Avatar - Square image up to 700k, consistently branded. This information will also be used in search, which is where keywords come in. Make sure that your organization is using its name, or a commonly used nickname/acronym.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Searching got a little bit of love too: And finally, the Idea Exchange indicates that we can tell which end is up in the schema builder , but it doesn’t mention that you can now create fields right from the schema builder by dragging the field type to the object. You can now unlink a profile that was set to the wrong person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

I can't move around very fast, my avatar has bad hair and outfits (I can't figure out how to change them), and sitting is a real challenge for me. Create an account and avatar for yourself, also free. To find the Nonprofit Commons search the Places tab in Second Life for "Nonprofit Commons," or click here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. You can find an International Women's Day event near you by searching the listings on [link] and find women's organizations to support by browsing www.wiserearth.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

.   The Twitter web interface doesn't - so if you want to know who is talking about you, you had to do separate search on twitter search. Profile View:  You can click on the person's avatar/profile and it shows up in another screen.     Also gives a choice of different URL shorterners.

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See3

MAY 10, 2007

He was participating via SecondLife as an on-screen avatar. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Funny thing… the #1 presenter at the entire conference, based on evaluations, wasn’t even there! You can read more about it on Barry’s blog.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions. Xobni is a third-party Microsoft Outlook plug-in that, in addition to helping you search and sort your email, aggregates the social media activity of your contacts into a quick-click interface.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. " These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog.

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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

MAY 18, 2013

At the time of writing the book my hope was that Facebook Community Pages would be phased out, but they have since been given a redesign and now play a significant role in Facebook’s Graph Search. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. The built-in “Retweet” button is the way to go.

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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???? Google Social Edge Search searches 35 sites, including : omidyar.net, compumentor.org, techsoup.org, bblocks.org, idealist.org, rpcv.org, etc. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

If there is time there will be more boxes to search for. The places with more than a handful of avatars present always seem to increase the probability of trouble though. Rosie will give you another group's notecard and you will need to go and look for their box. If you have problems IM Rosie Luna and Futura Fortas. If there???s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

It’s estimated that by late 2014 or early 2015 the majority of adults will get their information from social networks rather than search engines and that social networks will become the primary source of referral traffic to your website and blog. The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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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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