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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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

Our online community and social media team helps to do that by sharing what we learn as we develop our own projects, making education a central goal of our activities. It also hosts the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , supports micro-volunteering efforts , and curates resources like the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Submitted by Paul Lamb, Principal of Man On A Mission Consulting As an avid promoter of technology for social change, and as an active participant in a community of faith, I have often wondered why the two worlds remain so segregated? BTW, if you haven't seen this " Guided Tour of Spirituality in Second Life " its worth a looksee).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. OpenPlans is a platform for social activism to bring groups together to promote causes, make plans, and get things done.

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NTEN

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

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. Find enthusiasts within your enterprise and support them. Hat tip to Jay Moonah for the pointer to this Gartner article about virtual worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

The options: Funders support dozens of experiments on dozens of worlds that are not inter-operable, none of which are likely to operate at scale large enough to build meaningful community (default). Example virtual worlds: Second Life; Active Worlds; Entropia; Olive. Example engines: Multiverse, Croquet, Delta3D

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Mean Lux points to an excellent post that summarizes the all the online support in addition to the Facebook activity. The post gives us a screen capture from Google Trends , but it doesn't mention what has been happening in Second Life - for example virtual red t-shirts , and human chain protests ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts. The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated. community was built around a series of videos Amber Lee Ettinger made to support Obama’s campaign. The Obama Girl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

" Alexandra thinks Facebook or Twitter may have the answer: Many of us are posting daily, hourly or minute-by-minute snapshots of our activities via Facebook status updates or Twitter. She is using her blog to raise money to support the first Community Access television station in Ghana, Coastal Television in Cape Coast Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters. blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. In the case of Delicious, you can make your tagged content public, so that it can serve as a resource to others, or private, perhaps to remind yourself to come back to something later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

With everyone's help and support, I'm sure we'll reach our goal. Campaign activities: I've posted about the campaign on my Cambodia4Kids blog and made quick screencast to show folks how to cut and paste the code into blog posts. Lisa Canter has brought the fundraising campaign for Leng Sopharath to the 50% mark! Lisa's post is here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

" Stow Boyd goes on to observe that most "enlightened" corporate management supports personal development. It is only the most narrow-mind and short-sighted of management that actively ignores the primary motivations of human aspiration. Of Second Life? And I don't think that this is na??ve, Of YouTube?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. For me, that has meant going back to days spent on the floor, encouraging and supporting creative thought. Which leads, finally, to the experience of designing exhibits in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates. It's not hard to make that decision; most of us could do it in a few seconds. And since the average online museum comment board garners just a few comments each week (if you're lucky), this needn't be an onerous activity. There are also a few Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They are seeking to fund innovative ideas that support ICT needs of voluntary and community organisations. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Technologies to Recruit, Engage, and Activate Youth." Kabissa.org wants to know how you are using "Web 2.0" Using Web2.0

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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. Note that MAJOR impact is not to be confused with activities that get attention or build lists. The whole way nonprofits operate will change in 2010.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives. How can you create the community?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

These are the sessions I’m participating in and other sessions by TechSoup Global staff that I may be supporting or checking out as well. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Thursday, April 8, 2010. When : All Day.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The customer used the event to galvanize support for artificial reefs as a way to protect sea life. Those that integrate online video into their core marketing activities are seeing the most success. But there are few "hooks" for action or financial support that resonate more than the time sensitivity of a live event.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. Eventually, they had an opening for "Exhibits and Programs Associate"--a low-level jack of all trades position supporting the department. For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. I say wait for the MacArthur Foundation’s year-long exploration of the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds , and for significantly increased daily activity on Second Life, and in the meantime focus on video and other live action social media opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I whole-heartedly support the goals that motivate the hire--to connect with visitors online and onsite in more meaningful relationships--but I worry about focusing such a broad mandate into the tiny point of a single individual. One of the community managers I most admire is Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. As of October 9th, Obama's campaign had more than 2 million Facebook supporters, with John McCain at 565,000 and Ralph Nader at almost 10,000. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election.

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