Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Dipity :: dipity.com. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. Photos and slideshows. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. The Flickr stream is here. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. Twibbon :: twibbon.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos. You need a good avatar. Social media is not free!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel.

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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.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Upload more photos. If you want to maximize your Facebook ROI to increase likes and comments, then you need to be uploading more photos with links posted inside your status updates rather than simply posting links. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Photo by Pistachio. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Last night I couldn't sleep and followed the trail of links that Pistachio or rather PEAstachio left in a comment on the post about nonprofits and twitter. She also something very powerful, "Do Not Twitter Without Love."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m. I reserved my seat.

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JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement? "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?" • Flickr , "Show how rewarding it is to volunteer, to highlight issues that need extra attention, or to show pride in your cause." Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo! Messenger Avatar has a huge wardrobe of clothes to choose from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything. the desire people have to do something good without getting out of their chair". .

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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. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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MAY 27, 2010

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. Think of the impact the folks at Movember are having, only online.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. " Web 2.0,

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

It's a warning sign when community members make comments like , "it was only boundless encouragement from Avi (Nina's Second Life avatar) that prevented me from giving up more than once." But on Twitter or Flickr or across multiple blogs, it can be very hard for visitors to understand who exactly they are connecting with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. Don't forget to tag your blog posts, flickr photos, videos, and tasty links with Nptech tag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? s engaged enough to write a sentence or two or to participate in a conversation or to upload a photo with a caption is a person who???s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. Notes from a Brainstorm The overarching concern of Hiroshi is a potential split in the disability community over new technology, particularly in the broadband age. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful.

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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. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes. local time).

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