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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Snapchat

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off).

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens. Promotion for these online events should be integrated with your landing page and included in email promotions. 10) Invest in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platform.

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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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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. "Do young people have email accounts? Do they login to them semi-regularly?

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How to Create a Custom Snapcode for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You need unique, real-time content that appeals to Snapchat’s teen and millennial user base and that requires time and resources that many nonprofits simply do not have. The vast majority of nonprofits will find Snapchat challenging. You must stay within the black lines of the white ghost for your Snapcode will work.

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Best Practices for Nonprofits: Engaging Youth in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global Kids , a nonprofit that worked virtually with a group of youth in Teen Second Life last summer on their chosen issue of child sex trafficking, shares its best practices for nonprofits. who want to work in Second Life. These include general tips (e.g., use real world content when addressing real world issues). via Spare Change Tip Jar.