Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Each board member had a give of 500, a give of 5,000 and if it was in the green for that quarter, that meant they were on track. And so what they did was they created an avatar and every kid that came through their program got a teddy bear so they would not feel like they were alone. It was in a yellow, they were a little behind.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Andrew Keen (via video), author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. For example, the internet was important because it was difficult to organize offline. In Iran the regime hasn’t yet shown itself to be as savvy as the green movement. Tweets and highlights from this event on Twitter at #AITech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. 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! Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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