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Mastering Your Virtual or Hybrid Event: Exciting Live Auctions & Appeals – pt. 2

Greater Giving

Even with groundbreaking advances in technology and streaming, virtual events still bring an inherent distance between the action and the viewers. Live vs. Silent Auctions in Virtual Events. Not every virtual event requires a live auction to make money. Hybridizing Your Live Auction. TIP: Make it a destination!

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NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING IN 2022: Will virtual events stick around?

Greater Giving

Virtual events allowed nonprofits to reach more new donors than ever before. Events moved online, and livestreams brought entertainment and inspiration to virtual guests while they bid in online auctions. In 2020, nearly 80% of nonprofits said they replaced an in-person gala with a virtual event. Virtual events bring in donors!

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15+ Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas (and Expert Tips) for 2021

Qgiv

A reliable auction platform also makes it easy to pivot this experience to the virtual space! A traditional telethon is a fundraising event broadcast on television during which donors can call in and give to a cause. These can work as in-person, virtual , or even hybrid events. Expand your reach with virtual events.

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Why I Use Twitter

See3

There are no “pokes&# or virtual plants or stupid games. Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks, although it has more hype than users at this point. I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. And to read the same stuff being broadcast by a hundred other people? January 29, 2009.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. Sibley's company has developed virtual world projects for CBS, AOL, the NBA, Reuters, and many others.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already.

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[VIDEO] Strategies for Retaining Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers and Donors

Bloomerang

Show them that you value them enough to kind of broadcast their achievements to your followers. So you can kind of get them hyped up about your next event. So get them hyped about your upcoming event. I noticed that Carrie asked, “Are virtual facility tours helpful? But celebrate them publicly. Steven: Yeah.

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