TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The new AI avatar app from the Canadian startup lets you turn a single selfie into multiple lifelike avatars. Although there are several popular AI avatar apps already on the market, like Lensa AI, Wombo […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It sounds dystopian to some and it very well could be, but once you understand the concept and the emerging technology around it, as a nonprofit marketing and fundraising professional, you’ll also begin to understand its potential. That said, there are NFTs that are being sold to raise money for charity with many, many more to come.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Effectively engaging with culture in this pursuit has never been more important or desired by brands and marketers than it is right now, thanks to an ever-fragmented media landscape. Yetis product quality is its baseline, but it wears its heart on its sleeve with films that can defy marketing logic yet make perfect brand emotional sense.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.” Second, he added, avatars allow people to have ownership and individuality within the digital world.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. To use the app, you take a selfie which SwoonMe converts into an avatar. As they communicate, their avatar will slowly unveil their real photo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

They aren’t cluttering Pinterest with boring photos and seemingly endless marketing pitches. Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. I currently follow a little over 300 nonprofits on Pinterest ( pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 9, 2011

They have personality and its obvious that there is a human being behind the avatar. Finally, they put their community first and marketing second. They are engaging and listening and not just broadcasting content, and have discovered the right amount of tweets to interest, rather than annoy their followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

That’s what social media marketing is and the premise upon which all social media strategies are conceived, launched, and maintained. However, the most popular social media sites on the Social Web today have built in micro-engagement mechanisms that very few nonprofits ever use. 2) Be generous with +1′s and comments on Google+.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

His quick response promising better avatars for the actual launch speaks to just how much appearances do matter in these situations. “Our bigger vision is to connect the metaverse through avatars,” said Timmu Toke, co-founder and CEO, Ready Player Me, in an interview. It can also work off 3D images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Last month, it added an AI-powered video (avatar) feature that looks like a real person. The company says its users can reduce cost and time while maintaining audio quality by using Typecast’s avatar instead of hiring an actual actor. . Synthesia raises $50M to leverage synthetic avatars for corporate training and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

1) Following others without having yet uploaded an avatar. A 2009 study study by HubSpot found that not having uploaded an avatar decreases your followers by up to 80% and my guess is that the data from that study still speaks true today. 7) Posting all marketing content. 2) Following others without having entered a bio.

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TechImpact

JULY 28, 2014

These alerts usually shows your avatar and often time your bio. Make sure your avatar and bio information is up to date and start actively following as people in your community. By ingraining yourself in the community through your content marketing efforts, you’ve made asking for donations a lot easier. You have to ask.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, a startup in that bigger ecosystem, which believes it can fix one aspect of how this works — how we ourselves appear — is announcing some funding along with a beta of its live avatar software that has been years in the making. For now, you can share the avatars with friends and put them into a dancing animation.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

They are loaded with marketing pitches and often have punctuation and grammar errors, messy formatting, and one too many hashtags. Some of those Twitterers who are exposed to your avatar and your smart, useful and inspiring content for the first time will then be compelled to “Follow” you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2009

With a just a couple of clicks, Twitter Mosaic allows you to create a mosaic of the avatars of your Twitter Followers that can be placed on t-shirts, tote bags, mousepads, mugs, business cards, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Small to medium-sized nonprofits with small to medium-sized marketing and communications budgets may not have the resources that many of the larger nonprofits do, but that doesn’t mean your online communications campaigns can’t be as good. Custom-designed Twitter and YouTube Channel backgrounds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. If you name your group after your nonprofit, then your horizontal logo is fine for your LinkedIn group’s avatar. It needs to be a strong avatar that makes a solid first impression.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It is easy to overlook some small aspects of Twitter, that’s why we’ve compiled this list of simple things you can do to help increase interaction on your nonprofits Twitter account according to Julia Claire Campbell of JC Social Marketing. Upload an avatar, and fill out a short blurb about your nonprofit in the bio.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Then I teleported off to the Berkman Center discussion on Avatar Marketing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Taking the form of an anime-style avatar, Moemate — powered by a combo of models including GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude — aims to supply and vocalize the best answer to any question a user asks of it. (“Moe” is a Japanese word relating to cuteness, often in anime.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Prioritize storytelling over marketing. If you make storytelling a higher priority than marketing, then over time your nonprofit’s brand becomes synonymous with the cause(s) you advocate. Be very wary of miracle marketing automation tools. Increasingly, donors and supporters follow causes on social networks.

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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. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Game play is becoming a part of our daily lives, whether that involves planting crops on Facebook or just the subtle use of game mechanics marketers employ to lure us to their products and services. As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way.

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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. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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TechNode

APRIL 18, 2024

Richard Liu, founder of Chinese e-commerce company JD, debuted his livestreaming show on Tuesday using an avatar in his likeness. Details: Lius avatar is powered by the companys ChatRhino large language model, according to a WeChat post that JD published on Wednesday. Three, two, one! Show [shopping] link! in 2023 to RMB 1,084.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. 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.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Ads liked to the site had a.6%

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. Real-time 3D computer graphics and personalized avatars. Is using one avatar or item across different worlds as simple as it sounds?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Another honoree, HeyGen , launched a streaming avatar that enhances real-time interactions, creating more useful chatbots and tutors. market of more than $76 billion by 2030. The companys overall 2024 revenue of $95.6 billion represented an 8% increase over the previous year.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Ads liked to the site had a.6%

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

WellSaid came out of the Allen Institute for AI incubator in 2019 , and its goal was to make synthetic voices that didn’t sound so robotic for common business purposes like training and marketing content. It achieved that first by basing its solution on Tacotron, a speech engine developed by Google and academic researchers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

It will automatically pull in your avatar, apply your Twitter username to your Pinterest account (such as pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ), and sync your account with Twitter in case you occasionally want to share Pinterest Pins with your Twitter community. In fact, pinning traditional marketing materials will likely be a complete flop.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Great for farmers’ market vendors, silent auctions, and fundraisers on the go! A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Square :: squareup.com. Part-smartphone app, part-hardware device, Square enables the processing of credit card payments on your smartphone.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Videoavatars : enables users to utilize online avatars to market and promote their brands. Owlin : a real-time news analysis and intelligence tool for traders. Nexi : aims to change the way companies attract and hire the most talented people.

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