AccelEvents

JUNE 17, 2020

Ask leading questions, post relevant teasers and information, and encourage discussion. For a virtual conference or trade show, help attendees feel more engaged by allowing them to create a custom avatar. This avatar will act as their visual representation in the virtual space. Personalization. Easy Access to Additional Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I was hired in July 2009 to come into the organization and breathe life into social networking, explore new opportunities and empower the volunteers. There are times constituents may ask questions about how to get involved with the organization or are looking for information because a loved one has recently been diagnosed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." I met with the group last week. Personally I think I???ve

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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. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now. phenomena.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in Second Life virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. Life and leadership are messy. Principle Bently: You get one life… You get to decide how you’re going to spend it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. The discussion started with Fanton and Linden asking questions of each other. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

At Harvard Law School in real life via the Berkman Center, there was an fascinating discussion tonight called " Legal education in a networked world." You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. My next question was about being the first NTEN Award winner in Canada. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. " Nicole Wallace's frames the post with thes e questions : What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

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. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." The project blew away our expectations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. My next question was about being the first NTEN Award winner in Canada. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Which is why Twestival Local hopes to challenge city organizers with two important questions with their selected cause: (1) What will the not-for-profit do with the funds raised? . 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

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . What do non-profits need to do to thrive?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. I've been grappling with these and other questions over the last several months. Did we change too much?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 Fundamentally the question is ???why why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. era websites.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1. Let’s start with the basics.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

One person commented that the more interesting question is not how we build a platform for visitor content creation but how we facilitate sharing of that content. There have now been a couple comments on this blog to the effect of: "Visitors already create content in museums through their thoughts and social interactions." Great point.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But most importantly, feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. You will get exactly the same amount of content and your questions answered in the time that you have allotted for this training. ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. Closed captioning might be tricky to handle in real-time, but you can have a moderator ready on the live chat feature to answer any questions. . A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

A/B tests happen in real life too. Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A play on words of the infamous emoji; these are customized avatars (see how we learn as we go along?!). You can test copy length, images, tone, and so much more. We are always A/B testing ourselves. Click-through rate (CTR) .

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. Closed captioning might be tricky to handle in real-time, but you can have a moderator ready on the live chat feature to answer any questions. . A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything. Debbas who was in Iran at the time, risking his life said, "It helped because I didn't want to die anonymously and we can discredit raising awareness.".

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

To some extent, ameliorating that facelessness via personalization is a question of guest service. Some allow you to write your life story. At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. I am just a faceless visitor.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Instead, this post is an open question: how involved should admin staff be with the floor experience? For this reason, the most important place for admin staff to spend time is in front of the museum, walking the line, answering questions, selling tickets and memberships and welcoming people in the door.

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Care2

APRIL 17, 2008

Yet the same group when asked the question: “How important would you say it is for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters?” 52% said it was important for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Yet the same group when asked the question: “How important would you say it is for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters?” 52% said it was important for nonprofit and charitable organizations to use social media to communicate with their supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This meant we could watch the activity online and amplify it or respond to questions. Schedule things, and have a single coordinator for the life of the campaign. One possibility would have been to temporarily change our avatars to include a visual cue–like the Visible Government maple leaf–for all those officially behind the campaign.

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Museum 2.0

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." One of the community managers I most admire is Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. But if Twitter and other social networks actually provide us this kind of life-force-like sensitivity to each other now, is that good, or bad? And, so quickly, ways to help. They stuck out like a sore thumb.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tonight, I attended a live panel discussion on the question of whether Technology is Really Good for Human Rights, or not. Questions: Isn’t there plenty of evidence that technology is actually bringing information to societies in a way that was not possible 20 or 30 years ago? The question is how can we make it a force for good?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. 20 There are no managers, only algorithms; no fellow workers, only avatars of competitors; no obvious points of contact or information. Data Nightmares. becomes Playment’s property.’

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