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5 Oculus Quest Tips for Nonprofits New to the Metaverse

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Sharing : Cast, take photos, and record video in VR. Create your Oculus Avatar. Have fun with your avatar! That said, for someone like me ( Heather Mansfield ) who is very uncomfortable on camera in real life, it’s not uncomfortable being an avatar of myself in Oculus. You can be anyone you want in Oculus.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.”

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

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Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Purchase a digital camera. Write content and secure photos for website pages. Create and organize photos into collections and sets. Write content and secure photos for blog pages. Select mobile photo-sharing app and download. Sign up for Google Alerts.

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

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on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. For an example, see UNICEF’s TwitPic Page: twitpic.com/photos/UNICEF. Alternatively, there is TweetPhoto.

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TechSoup Meeting on June 30th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and join the next meeting on Friday, July 7th at 11:30 AM EST. After the meeting, we tried for a group photo op. Let me tell you, getting all those avatars to look into the camera and smile is even more difficult than trying to get a group shot of a bunch of preschoolers! Join the TechSoup discussion list: [link].

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.) Alas, no photo as my computer just couldn't handle anymore stress at that moment.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. ") I walked around the space and chatted with the avatar who was the human involved in the project.