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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? was a BBC new media producer from 95-04 and was part of one of the first. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Diversify your news sources.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? And I have my blog, Spare Change, which I just started in January. I see that you???ve

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Google social search.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. And so what they did was they created an avatar and every kid that came through their program got a teddy bear so they would not feel like they were alone.

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How A Small Nonprofit Effectively Used Facebook Ads

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AXIS creates, performs, and teaches “physically integrated dance”— a contemporary dance form that evolves from the collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities. .” They’ve put together a strategy for Facebook ads to recruit new fans using testing and targeting. 1.) Tell me about AXIS Dance Company?

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