Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. The overall message should be one of empowerment, not control and restriction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Avatar Action Center. Prevent Human Trafficking Using Technology To Tell Stories of Empowerment and Successful Micro Philthanthropy. It's really hard to narrow it down to 5-10 projects, but here's a sampling of the diversity of projects and causes represented. Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam. Creative Commons suggests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. Twitter users are encouraged to craft their own Tweet or use one of the examples below. “I Each tweet raises 10 cents for CARE. apowerfulnoise [link].

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Donation Twitter Empowerment Kenya 50

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. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article.

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