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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

In Second Life, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars. That's my avatar sitting on top of the donation box (it spins!) But, avatars who raising money in Second Life for their causes are also spreading the word to others. I had a tip jar in my avatar???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2008

Her testimony was part of today's hearing: "Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium" Transcript and video here. for nonprofits. Susan also sent around a couple of links to stories in the press about her appearance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). It's called: Change the World by Working in a Virtual One.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

There are almost 200 hundred avatars here and it's twenty minutes before the event! Check out the article on the New York Times !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Jeff replies, "Dad, I spent the morning at my private foundation office in Second Life where my avatar raised $600 which I then took to donorschoose.org to buy textbooks for a class I adopted." Rick Federn enters his son, Jeff's room. Jeff is on the computer. Rik asks him what he's up to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

Well off to turn Twittter avatar into the logo for VoteReport. If you want to know more about social media and the election, there's a compilation of examples of how social media is being used in the elections by Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy. You can read it here ). 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2006

People think I'm nuts that my business card features my SL avatar. in a decade virtual worlds will be normal Originally uploaded by lynetter. Maybe I am or maybe I just have a talent for future trend analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War. Unfortunately, most of the photos are under an "All Rights Reserved" copyright which can be a barrier to spreading them because you have to ask permission. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

MacArthur Foundation becomes the first foundation to leave behind the limitations of physical space and fly into virtual worlds. vote with their feet,??? these folks can simply fly away. It would also be a great way to test out the virtual philanthropy simulator ideas I wrote about earlier; or.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

That's my Second Life avatar). You knew I just had to do this. the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.

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DECEMBER 21, 2007

" Without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. As she announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer. As Pistachio mentions, "This arose spontaneously. From love, connection, support and caring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.) the networking piece that happens.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Notice how their avatars include the zappos identity? (See Mark Hendrickson's post for a summary) A couple of nuggets: They use Twitter for customer service and encourage employees to tweet. Tony has a get started guide for employees to get up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2006

The White Bands will contain a script that allows your avatar to Stand Up in a unique way. You also get a T-Shirt! The kiosk offers information on Stand Up and a free White Band (the international symbol for ending poverty).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

There is a chicken animation where your avatar can move around like a chicken. Via a gift to World Vision, that item is purchased for the village or family. They're just getting started, there are chickens, sheep, and cows. Is this the future of fundraising perhaps five years down the road or just a fad? You can to it in Second Life here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. There's YouTube video here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. Gartner's five laws for exploring virtual worlds at the enterprise level. First Law: Virtual worlds are not games, but neither are they a parallel universe (yet). Fourth Law: Understand and contain the downside. Fifth Law: This is a long haul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2006

Let me tell you, getting all those avatars to look into the camera and smile is even more difficult than trying to get a group shot of a bunch of preschoolers! Join the TechSoup discussion list: [link]. and join the next meeting on Friday, July 7th at 11:30 AM EST. After the meeting, we tried for a group photo op.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter users may donate their avatar and replace it with an image of the red female sign. #apowerfulnoise [link]. First time you can raise money for worthy cause by sending a tweet. Help CARE support women globally: #apowerfulnoise. The image is available here. The campaign site features a twitter counter. So far, 488 tweets or $48.80

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. Susan continues to share her experience at her blog and through twitter.

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JULY 19, 2006

Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. The first was lecture and discussion at the Berkman Center's virtual island on Avatar Marketing based on the article written by a HBS professor.

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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. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

Ted Fickes (note the dog in the avatar) I'm trying to use relatively high profile project for wiki-type adoption internally. So I asked on Twitter, what is your best wiki adoption tip for internal collaboration? Here's the responses: Laura Whitehead suggested reading this article about wiki collaboration and happiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars. The Social Media Roadblock. I would have maybe spent more time asking people to share the info on Facebook. I would have started a hashtag for Twitter. I have no idea!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

re interested in attending and have never been in There.com, Lauren can get you an avatar ??? Lauren is soliciting questions from interested participants at the State of Play Academy course website (login required if you want to post; otherwise, you may just click ???guest guest access???). just email her at gelman at Stanford dot edu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Avatar Action Center. 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. Aspiration's Social Source Commons. Community-Owned Telecenter Project in Malawi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! I've been curious what a virtual Angkor Wat or other cultural wonders of the world look like in Second Life? How could explore culture in a virtual environment as a learning experience that is connected to a real life experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. I heard about his first presentation Second Life and read the transcript - so I was familiar with the content. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

It was also interesting that when they video projected the Second Life environment on the screen, all of us avatars got very tame. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing. no dancing, piano playing or flying. and that's when I missed a good portion of the discussion.

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JANUARY 31, 2007

ll all be able to stay home, prevent climate change and just send our avatars to Switzerland. But by the time I arrived on Wednesday, there were already one million blog hits for ???Davos Davos 2007.??? At this rate, we???ll Has this view been changed by the pervasive Internet access?

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

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AUGUST 15, 2009

I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Profile View:  You can click on the person's avatar/profile and it shows up in another screen.  Retweets:  It does this automatically - rather than cuting and pasting.      Also gives a choice of different URL shorterners.   (See above). 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Susan Tenby, on the Second Life and Nonprofits Blog, reports what it is like to be in the middle of it all: The griefing made it dizzying and unpleasant to be in the NPC sim, but I was still able to talk to avatars. I got bumped around a bit, but it was a little like trying to have a conversation in a hailstorm or a typhoon.

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