Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. As she announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer. " Without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Read Susan Reynold 's statement. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2009

Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. I mention this only because my life is now directly impacted by cancer in ways I could not have predicted a few months ago. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from. Examples: For World AIDS Day, avatars wore shirts with red ribbons and for Breast Cancer Awareness month they wore shirts with pink ribbons. Examples: Climate Concern's Group and the ONE Campaign's Groups. My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

Remember, I have not simply had beers with these guys, I've flown around Second Life with their avatars and had virtual beers with them. And those kind of rewards are what make us continue to look for new models and reinvent our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. This was the first time I observed the use of "retweeting" a fundraising message.

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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. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 22, 2005

27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. 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. billion for the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? ve also been interested in watching what the American Cancer Society has done with its virtual walk-a-thon in Second Life. s relevant to their lives, an interesting or funny video clip, an event or social movement that they want to make a difference in. I see that you???ve

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And in 2018, as you saw, as I hurriedly got on to this to this presentation, I was diagnosed with cancer and I felt I needed to retire. 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. ” Because I have worn your hat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer. Since then very few nonprofits have launched their own stations, so the post may have been a bit before its time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, the American Cancer Society on GoFundMe Charity : 7) Sign up for Facebook & Instagram Charitable Giving Tools. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And in August, the startup Sonantic announced it had created an AI voice clone of actor Val Kilmer , whose own voice was damaged in 2014 after he underwent a tracheotomy as part of his treatment for throat cancer. These examples also frame some of the social and ethical dimensions of this technology.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

He also claims to have exposed Vicki Gunvalson, of the Real Housewives of Orange County , for running a fake cancer charity. One, which used the name Jeff Jeffries, said they worked at Google Brain and used a photo of a Black man in their avatar photo. A Google spokesperson confirmed that neither of these people works at Google.).

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2025

Incentives throughout the tournament rewarded players with in-game items like avatars when they made a donation to Make-A-Wish. Results : In 2024, 1,300 Icecyle participants raised $685,000 for research, clinical trials, and quality-of-life programs for cancer patients and their families. They have ideas!

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

His WhatsApp avatar was a round-faced cartoon man in over-ear headphones. Soon after, Rob told Kaplan he had stage four kidney cancer and stopped being able to talk on the phone. “He His name was Dr. Richard Fong. He called himself a “science communicator” and sometimes quoted Nelson Mandela when explaining his research.

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