Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. volunteer[s]: This hashtags can be useful to send out a call for volunteers, to thank volunteers, or to promote the work of your volunteer community.

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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. Calls to action: sign a petition, call Congress, event announcements, volunteer requests, urgent donation appeals, etc. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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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. Calls to action: sign a petition, call Congress, event announcements, volunteer requests, urgent donation appeals, etc. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

You can also easily invite all your connections on LinkedIn to join — a tip that should be shared with other staff members and volunteers. Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. Enable Promotions and Jobs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In years past, if a staff member or volunteer added your organization to their profile and were the first to do so, LinkedIn automatically created a LinkedIn Page for your nonprofit. 5) Encourage current staff, board members, and volunteers to complete their LinkedIn Profiles. Currently, the limit is 100 invitations per month.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Encourage staff and volunteers to +1 each others articles, posts, and photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

It was also my duty to organize four fundraising events each year and manage an average six volunteers in any given week. You need a good avatar. Adding social media to that already packed job description just would not have been possible. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

It should also detail as least three actions that your donors and supporters can take on the awareness day, such as make a donation, sign a petition, share the page with their social networks, become a volunteer, and so on. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and the hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. I was hired in July 2009 to come into the organization and breathe life into social networking, explore new opportunities and empower the volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2014

1 the content posted by others to increase the exposure of your nonprofit’s avatar. In your Dashboard under “Settings” add at least two managers to ensure that your nonprofit does not lose access to your Google+ Page due to staff and volunteer turnover. Have more than one manager for your Google+ Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Create an ambassador sign up page and provide sample email text and social media graphics/avatars. If you work at a NGO, nonprofit, or charity, please volunteer 4-7 minutes of your time to take the survey. Best Practice #3: Launch Ambassador Program. Recruit ambassadors for your #GivingTuesday campaign: 1. Thank you! .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. IconsPedia :: iconspedia.com/pack/social-me-1467. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Nonprofits are uniquely qualified to use gaming to deepen relationships with their donors, volunteers and even clients. As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way. Don’t fall prey to a dismissive mentality. Gamification Evolution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The only exception is in crisis situations where urgent calls to action require mobilizing your social networking communities to donate, volunteer, or participate in advocacy campaigns. If your avatar, banners, and backgrounds are professionally designed, then users are much more likely to become followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? child is being controlled by volunteers and is called MensajerosDeLaPaz Jubilee. I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. I try base my opinions on research.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) is June 28-30 in New York City. The NCVS conference is an opportunity for volunteer and service leaders to get together for in-person networking and learning. If you’re going to be there, we’d love for you to get in touch! Room: 1374. Get in Touch Via Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Cause.it :: cause.it. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. Formstack :: formstack.com. FotoFlexer :: fotoflexer.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Cause.it :: cause.it. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Step 2: Create avatars and banners for your chapters. On your nonprofit’s website, the head office should offer a downloadable version of your nonprofits primary avatar (250 x 250 pixels). If they do not have the capacity, then the head office must customize the avatar for them. Step 3: Create a best practices document.

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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. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what 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)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Attended by more than 2,000 nonprofit professionals and volunteers, the webinar featured one best practice from each of the book’s sixteen chapters and provided the basis for writing and implementing a comprehensive mobile and social fundraising strategy. Create avatars and banners for your chapters. Chapter 16: New Media Managers.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Dress up your avatar with some Epic Thanks love at [link]. The event is founded by Epic Change, a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization I love that amplifies the voices and impact of grassroots changemakers who need to be heard. Follow and contribute to the in the EpicThanks interviews on Twitter via #EpicThanks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. In the book I prioritize using old school retweets, but not any longer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

It should also detail as least three actions that your donors and supporters can take on the awareness day, such as make a donation, sign a petition, share the page with their social networks, become a volunteer, and so on. Be sure to embed your avatar or logo and embed hashtag for the campaign on the images and graphics.

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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)

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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.), 50 a month there really is no excuse to be using.gmail.com,yahoo.com, or.hotmail.com as your email handle when communicating with donors, supporters, volunteers, and the general public.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. In the book I prioritize using old school retweets, but not any longer.

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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. Buy some nice stationary ( preferably on recycled paper ) and send handwritten thank you notes to donors, volunteers, and even your most committed online activists. It will make a strong impression.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 6 :: Fill Out Your LinkedIn Profile to “100 Percent Completeness” Add Volunteer Experience & Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Volunteers around the world feel empowered when asked to use their skills, not only to bring people together at an event, but contribute to something positive. There is a huge opportunity here to bridge the gap between donors and volunteers. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do.

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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. and so I volunteered to take notes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

We asked GreenTech volunteer Michael Hodges to sign up and try out different things in Second Life like find the Nonprofit Commons Island and befriend 'avatars' there. Michael Hodges is a GreenTech volunteer, currently looking for work. read more.

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