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. So back to last night's events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. The whole of this activity should take place within Boracay, meet in the Piazza ( [link] ). The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate.

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MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

And a sizable crew of these young folks are deployed to monitor - and participate in on behalf of the agency - all sorts of social media activity. Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. The same with Second Life. All the guys have learned to use female avatars and personae on the sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

On June 22nd at 9:00 AM PST, Jonathan's avatar along with Second Life CEO Philip Rosedale will lead a discussion with residents on the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. It will be interesting to see if Fanton's avatar looks just like him or something different. The details are here. There will be a live audio feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500. second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. enterprises) will have a ??? Ah, but what about ROI?

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. Got that?)

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." " If you're interested the uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other activities, check out Ian's site, water cooler games. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? A Few NpTech Conversations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Destroy TV is, among other things, an application that allows people who have the web but can't access Second Life (a 3D virtual world application), to operate a live camera in Second Life and chat with avatars in the world. We're going to talk about ways to bring the same thinking to museums.

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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. .

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I'm doing some experience design within the virtual world of Second LIfe, where I am humblingly, and somewhat embarassingly, a newbie. The talented people with whom I work, who make my content come alive, are the experts of Second Life, and they navigate the world and its quirks with the confidence of experience.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

While subsequent museum staff have kept the project going, the community had connected with me as the focal point, and there has not been a new person who has been able to comparably rally the community to high levels of activity. I don't tell this story with pride; I tell it with shame. Why does this happen in the first place?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

An Introduction to Activism on the Internet recently turned up in the tag stream, and while almost two years old, a solid primer. The e-Campaigning Tool for plone can do petitions, letters to targets, and other campaign related activities. Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life.

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