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. To earn return on investment (ROI) from using social networking sites is a skill that requires an instinct for subtlety. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Struggling with gaps in talent and skills, organizations are starting to invest more heavily in technologies to predict their training requirements, understand their learners and to create exciting ways to deliver training and learning to their employees.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

A good social media manager has an advanced communications and online fundraising skill set. If she or he writes or posts boring content, lacks necessary tech skills such as HTML and photo editing, or doesn’t have an intuitive sense and passion for their online communities, then your social media ROI will be minimal at best.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Yes, people attend conferences and trade shows in order to learn and grow their skill set, but they also attend to network with other industry professionals. Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. Virtual attendees can see benefits as well!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

My spatial thinking skills are not my strong suit, so building stuff isn't easy for me. He did an excellent job. I was able to at least build a poster with a handle, although I had major problems attaching it. Ruby Sinreich has a write up on the workshop here. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

A virtual escape room will give attendees the opportunity to work together with other participants, each using their knowledge and skills to solve problems. . Attendee avatars or personas had the option to chat with one another while awaiting the next session or the address from the keynote speaker. . Virtual Cocktail Hour.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Your third social network should be one that is up-and-coming, expands your mobile skill set, and reaches a new target audience, such as Gen Z on Snapchat or Millennials on Instagram. Your nonprofit has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. Tools like Canva and Pablo make it super easy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

Only knowing someone by their avatar or their username may make it difficult to share stories and ask hard questions, online. Find out what you have common (hobbies, music, travel) and what drives people to do the work they do (personal stories, passions, skills). So, make friends! Lesson: Socialize!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? An important skill is knowing how to connect with your constituents online. Our official launch of text-to-donate will be January 3, 2011 at another Los Angeles Kings hockey game. People can text ACTION to 25383 make a $10 donation.

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. Their choice of character determined their skill sets, abilities, and weaknesses in the game. Each of the characters has a unique set of skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. In fact, Snapchat is giving rise to anew type of artist – the Snapchat artist.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

A virtual escape room will give attendees the opportunity to work together with other participants, each using their knowledge and skills to solve problems. Attendee avatars or personas had the option to chat with one another while awaiting the next session or the address from the keynote speaker. Virtual Cocktail Hour.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

The presence of virtual goods augments the interest of the players, who can buy or earn a choice of objects, from clothing to weapons to skills, allowing them to create a unique identity in a social environment. In that way, for example, players can express themselves by decorating their avatars and showing them to friends and colleagues.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Avatar - Square image up to 700k, consistently branded. He uses those skills at thedatabank in supporting and training clients on all aspects of their software and helping them to implement best practices. Make sure that your organization is using its name, or a commonly used nickname/acronym.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

In Second Life, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars. That's my avatar sitting on top of the donation box (it spins!) But, avatars who raising money in Second Life for their causes are also spreading the word to others. I had a tip jar in my avatar???s

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

This book also talks about how having innovation steeped in the culture of the organization (all the way up to the board of director level) is more important than having people with top-notch tech skills. And those kind of rewards are what make us continue to look for new models and reinvent our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Volunteers around the world feel empowered when asked to use their skills, not only to bring people together at an event, but contribute to something positive. Causes should recognize specific skills of volunteers as a valuable commodity, the same way it does with cash donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. There are all kinds of tricks to the trade , such as using UTMs ( see bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Profile View:  You can click on the person's avatar/profile and it shows up in another screen.    Given my interest in information coping skills , this will come in handy for those who have mastered the basics. Retweets:  It does this automatically - rather than cuting and pasting.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. We had a group and teams with mixed level of skills and that be a little difficult. How to break down the skills with activities? First, as with a lot of online facilitation/collaboration it can be frustrating and a little chaotic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The effective use of social networks is a skill not to be underestimated. If you want your nonprofit to be highly shared, retweeted, +1’d, repinned, and liked, then you absolutely must have photo-editing skills and a digital image library to work with. This reflects a seismic shift away from text to visual content.

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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. We have to do this across a diversity of styles and skills. Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. It is truly a "ringmaster" job.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

You’ll need to invest in a photo-editing software or app that will allow you to edit, crop and insert text or your nonprofit’s logo or avatar into your photos. Photos with Your Nonprofit’s Logo or Avatar. You are going to need to know where to find photos online and how to source them. ”Oh, Wow” Photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel.

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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. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define virtual worlds? Go and do some studies and publish them. I think that’s absolutely true. In Second Life, they stayed for the whole thing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Free for nonprofits, it’s an easy way to tap into a skilled volunteer network without committing a lot time to volunteer management. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Square :: squareup.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

A well-executed social media campaign requires a time investment and skilled social media manager. It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. A more diverse tool set requires a shifting of priorities.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. I picture Yoda stumbling as he experiences “a disturbance in the force” when an entire, populated planet is destroyed by the Death Star.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Free for nonprofits, it’s an easy way to tap into a skilled volunteer network without committing a lot time to volunteer management. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. Square :: squareup.com. Twibbon :: twibbon.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Free for nonprofits, it’s an easy way to tap into a skilled volunteer network without committing a lot time to volunteer management. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Square :: squareup.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Free for nonprofits, it’s an easy way to tap into a skilled volunteer network without committing a lot time to volunteer management. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Square :: squareup.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. Upworthy :: upworthy.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Free for nonprofits, it’s an easy way to tap into a skilled volunteer network without committing a lot time to volunteer management. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Square :: squareup.com. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter. Upworthy :: upworthy.com.

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