Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. He noted that PWD will say very different things when their “handlers” are present in the form of teachers, librarians, rehab people, nonprofit people. When teacher is present, it's about textbook access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

Flickr photo from Carmello. The island is a presentation of the Dutch Red Cross and the Dutch Fund for Disability Sports. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." For companies looking to use virtual worlds for marketing, avatar engagement is the Holy Grail.

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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. The opening presentation showed kids talking about how they social media and adults misconceptions.) local time).

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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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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. A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session.

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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???? A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. Engagement Strategie s. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. And they challenged me and my colleagues to prove the value of our web strategy through constant testing and the presentation of hard-core data. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ???

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