Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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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. You will be asked to upload your Avatar/Organization’s Logo which will become your App Avatar. It allows you to login to your back end and track the activity of your App.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 16, 2021

Attendee Tracking. Attendee tracking for the online portion can help you drastically maximize your ROI. Use this data to inform: Buyer personas or customer avatars. Keep them up to speed with a dedicated stakeholders portal, tech training sessions, and regular emails. . Brand insights and analytics. Popular sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Without tracking how many clicks the links you post on Twitter are receiving, you are Tweeting blindly. It also allows you to track your own tweets to see who is favoriting them. on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Create a Bitly account to track mobile click-throughs, if applicable. Create a Google account. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Check in to Loopt.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

If your event is broad in scope, consider creating avatars for each attendee group so you can really take a look at what their motivations may be for attending. Track session attendance numbers to see which pieces of content were most popular. But dive a little deeper.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. You’ll need a photo editing tool to drag and drop your logo or avatar onto your images, but the extra step is worth your time. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? I am tracking the ROI. I track the ROI a few ways. (1) 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2) We have over 70 affiliates in the U.S. Please summarize your ROI. 2) Interaction and response from postings (i.e.

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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. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. WeePlaces :: weeplaces.com.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Some features are: Versatile logos – (Great for avatars, email subject lines, business profiles listings, and website headers). Then track your web traffic using Google Analytics. Interaction tracking – Enabling you to manage interactions with team members, volunteers, and donors. Available in multiple file formats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

One obvious sign that your nonprofit is on the right track is that you have added calls-to-follow to your “Thank You” landing page and follow-up “Thank You” email. 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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AccelEvents

MARCH 4, 2021

If your event is broad in scope, consider creating avatars for each attendee group so you can really take a look at what their motivations may be for attending. Track session attendance numbers to see which pieces of content were most popular. But dive a little deeper.

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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. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The problem is that there so many hashtags floating around on Twitter, that’s it tough to keep track of which hashtags work best and reach the most individuals. 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

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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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Even better, setting up a remarketing campaign on Facebook is extremely simple: First, you’ll need to set up a tracking code on your site. Here are a few guides for popular sites to get your tracking codes set up: Google Remarketing Tag. Twitter Conversion Tracking. LinkedIn conversion tracking. Facebook Pixel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement? For companies looking to use virtual worlds for marketing, avatar engagement is the Holy Grail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics. A CRM is a database that captures information about your donors, members, and volunteers and enables your nonprofit to track donations, create fundraising reports, and analyze and compare fundraising campaigns.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

In that way, for example, players can express themselves by decorating their avatars and showing them to friends and colleagues. The system can include multiple leaderboards, tracking different aspects of the game so everyone can compare their capabilities with others.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2011

" The first day featured two separate tracks on education and civic engagement, both of which were packed with interesting speakers and topics. Connie Yowell of the MacArthur Foundation shared four important trends in the serious games space to watch out for: Data : Tracking outcomes from game play requires careful data collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Ted Fickes (note the dog in the avatar) I'm trying to use relatively high profile project for wiki-type adoption internally. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I tracked down the resident named "MensajeroDeLaPaz Jubilee" and got a TP to his location, appropriately enough, right in front of one of the NBC-sponsored Rockefeller Center sims. There's YouTube video here.

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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. link below ) and pixels to track conversions from your ads.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos. Reputation and Issue Tracking. The Real-Time Web of People. Pushing Financial Data.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions. Among the benefits are the ability to schedule posts in the future and customizable feeds that let you track what people are saying about your organization. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

As soon as I heard about it, I tracked down Wendy Harman who is responsible for social media strategies at the American Red Cross to learn more about how she did it. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. Tell us about your job? that are easy to grab and use.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 22, 2005

Instead of running around tracks in their hometowns, participants will guide their onscreen representatives (known as avatars) around a virtual track designed and displayed in cyberspace. 27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague.

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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???? internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why how can we get them to do that on our site as well????

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Users might have an avatar that can represent them as they move around the virtual space. . While many of the benefits of hosting an event online will come through the connections made possible through the live event feed, the live chat, and video features, the event also needs to keep track of event data and analytics. .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

I have a friend with a GPS-enabled running watch that tracks his path, and then shows a little animation of an avatar representing him on his last run to "race" the same trail. You can sign up to track your web travels on Firefox in real time and get rated on different kinds of usage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Track and report success in a Social Media ROI spreadsheet. Create avatars and banners for your chapters. . - Action Items (Mobile-optimize donate page, launch presence on Instagram, host Google+ Hangout, rebrand social networks, etc.). Budget (Cost of implementing action items). Chapter 3: Websites. Chapter 16: New Media Managers.

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