Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs??? from friends telling friends telling friends.

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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. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s s no wonder she does not see SL as a next step.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. " Findhabeas. Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News. I really need a vacation. tools to adopt.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, Maybe the Tech will have that with your new project in Second Life.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

60) Search « Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities | Main | NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award » Monday Aug 27 2007 Grantmakers Dive Into Web 2.0 using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, online video, and text messaging to accomplish their own goals.

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AUGUST 27, 2007

60) Search « Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities | Main | NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award » Monday Aug 27 2007 Grantmakers Dive Into Web 2.0 using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, online video, and text messaging to accomplish their own goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? Of Second Life? As Jon Stahl notes, in reaction to the recent Overbook Foundation Report , I wonder how much of this anxiety is the product of nonprofit sector consultants and pundits hyping Web 2.0 tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube? Of Facebook? Are all of these important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. There's also dogooder.tv David Wilcox gives a killer keynote at the UK Nonprofit Technology Conference Pathways to Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Their project will have a way to facilitate online communication between people with disabilities and able-bodied peers using existing social networking utilities - ChiPs and MentorNet. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 literally speak a different language from the rest of us.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

create and manage a Facebook group or page, or a MySpace page. The time these require is highly correlated to whether you are currently generating this kind of content, but if you are already snapping shots, putting them up on the web (with a handy link back to the museum website) is a cinch, and it's totally acceptable to do it sporadically.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. On MySpace : Both Oxfam and HSUS prove what we already know from Greenpeace and others – MySpace is a great place to get new advocates. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

" Looks like MySpace is also getting sued for copyright violation. Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life. And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

When I worked on The Tech Virtual project , I was often discomfited by the fact that I would spend entire days interacting with 10-30 people in Second Life, when I could interact with many more if I worked on the museum floor. If your goal is for art lovers worldwide to identify with your institution, the opposite is true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg.

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