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

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.), It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Then, after entering your height, weight, and body type, Amazon will create your custom avatar. The launch of Made for You follows Amazon’s discontinued Echo Look experiment that involved standalone cameras that offered fashion advice, and arrives just as the company’s $99.99

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters. On your nonprofit’s website, the head office should offer a downloadable version of your nonprofits primary avatar (250 x 250 pixels). If they do not have the capacity, then the head office must customize the avatar for them. Step 3: Create a best practices document.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The site features advice from experts (with adorable illustrated avatars) including Grammar Girl , the pseudonym for English pro, Mignon Fogarty. Everyone could use a little grammar refresher to combat the ever-changing language of the Internet.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2010

Of the nearly 400 people who listened in on Thursday, many say they gained real, actionable advice they could apply to their organization's social media use. The first tip was something that is often overlooked as organizations make the big move to social media — investing in a good avatar. read more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Through the platform, data scientists could customize the avatars’ poses as well as their hair, facial hair, apparel (e.g., ” One of Synthesis AI’s digital avatars. masks and glasses), and environmental aspects like the lighting and even the “lens type” of the virtual camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2012

We created an add with our AXIS avatar and the slogan “Change the way you think about dance forever… “Like us” on Facebook” Since it is our fist time working with FB ads, we decided to start small. 6.) Lessons Learned, Advice. It’s so fun and easy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

” It’s worth noting that Soul Machines’ other co-founder, Mark Sagar, has won Academy Awards for his AI engineering efforts creating the characters in the films “Avatar” and “King Kong.” ” Perhaps the skill behind producing such realistic digital humans is why Soul Machines reported a 4.6x

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Last week while I was in Palo Alto, I had an opportunity to attend Startup2Startup , a monthly networking event for startup businesses to make connections and get advice and insight organized by Dave McClure.(Check Notice how their avatars include the zappos identity? Tony has a get started guide for employees to get up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

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. We got advice not to do that. What's your advice?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. Just today, I got a Twitter question from DeafMom asking for advice. (I

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A whole pillar of products targeting people between the ages of 20 and 30 is focused on competing with LinkedIn, allowing people to host resumes and browse for jobs or career advice in a specialized feed. It’s an entire generation.”. And while a lot of traditional social media can feel like a performance, these virtual game worlds are fun.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Meanwhile, Manish has details on a $100 million acquisition the search engine giant made in Alter, an AI avatar startup. Get your health advice here : YouTube says it will begin certifying channels for licensed health professionals, like doctors, nurses or therapists, who produce health-related content, Ivan writes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars. Advice to other nonprofits about doing this? The Social Media Roadblock. I would have maybe spent more time asking people to share the info on Facebook. I have no idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Perhaps a better title, a "Crashing Success," given that so many avatars showed up that it exceeded the server's and crashed! Beyond Giving looks at new ideas, best practices, and good advice for nonprofits and donors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

“This can be platform-usage minutes, the number of messages a user sends, how many people a user follows, the number of times a user personalizes their avatar, or anything that provides a signal on how users are finding value in your product.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

" Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. After a brief hiatus from blogging, the studio 501c blog with some great advice for nonprofits on how to explore org.20 " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. I think you and Kami Huyse and John Cass gave me the best advice back in September. that are easy to grab and use. We've used our online channels to keep the public updated on the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

He uses a red haired avatar , so that has been my mental image of him. What advice would you offer other folks who are staff at nonprofits and want to blog? " Sometimes I pop out of my RSS reader to leave a drive-by IM message on his meebo client just to be annoying. It's for stroking my ego and keeping me blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. I'm going reel off the names of some tools that I've observed you using and would love your best piece of advice or tell me a story about how you've used it in your org. Who is that doggy in your twitter avatar? His team includes writers, designers, and web producers. t previously exist.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Howly “You choose a category where you need professional advice and type your question in the chat form. Manna
 Co-creating fantastic lifelike avatar media like games, quests, cinema, shows, webcasts, social and business events in a 3D/AR/VR ecosystem.

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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???? Building on Each Others Ideas Heather over at the Aspiration Blog hosted this week 's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants which includes a good roundup of advice. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. See below).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. Finally, be sure to list your monthly giving program on your “Ways to Give” page.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Capitalizing on the recent tech boom, AI-powered digital companions and digital twin avatars are rapidly emerging as alternatives to human relationships. avatar chatbot platform Ex-human and ex-head of A.I. A 2024 Harvard study found that 21% of U.S. at Replika, tells Fast Company. The appeal is undeniable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

" He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. Educate about your cause. Mobilize: Give people something to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible. "Do young people have email accounts?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Any advice for reducing the cost of recruiting from abroad? Presenting one’s self as a floating 3D avatar during remote meetings may appeal to some, but given its immersive potential, wouldn’t consumers prefer to use the metaverse to play instead of being productive? Fledgling Founder.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. Upon their arrival, Nigel gives this piece of advice. She gave Alex sage advice that was wise and insightful. Welcome to the jungle, gang!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

So they’re shooting for the startup to be trend-led on the tech side too. “We’ve not even dipped our toes [in web 3] but we’ve been to a few events.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the video game Katamari Damacy, players control an avatar who rolls a sticky ball that captures anything it touches. We broke the process down into three parts: planning, execution and follow-up,” he writes in a TechCrunch+ post that condenses the advice he’s giving the founders he works with.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I bet I would have repeated my coworker’s advice in a tweet: “Get word to your parents if you can. My boss gave maternal advice. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. Tell them where you are. Wake them if you must.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

AI is our life now : We are now using artificial intelligence to create our own avatars and write letters about potential layoffs. ” In a guest post for TC+, he shares frank advice and multiple scenarios that can help founders meet investor expectations during tough times. Annie has more. ” Which way is up?

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