Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Corporate types resist the adoption of these technologies, and then, subsequently embrace them. Of Second Life?

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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

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. this adoption approach sounds familiar? Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Jeff replies, "Dad, I spent the morning at my private foundation office in Second Life where my avatar raised $600 which I then took to donorschoose.org to buy textbooks for a class I adopted." Jeff is on the computer. Rik asks him what he's up to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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This widespread adoption of mobile phones as well as other mobile devices such as tablets, e-reader, etc. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. million, with the number of smartphone users worldwide forecast to exceed 2 billion users by the end of 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Installed based : # of actual users; number, quality and diversity of objects free or for sale; size of developer community; level of adoption by academic, corporate, government users. 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

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. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. I have a large collection of buttons that I???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. All part of the Twitter cycle of adoption ! Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Liberate your control freaks: Driving social computing adoption in business. A Second Life for the Archivist. There many more in the group and many more for you to discover on SlideShare and add to the NpTech group if you're interested in sharing. Here they are, in no particular order: Government 2.0. Bottom-Up Tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. What are their core values that you can tap into to motivate them to adopt healthy or pro-social behaviors? ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. " Michele Martin talks about the barriers to adoption of google tools in government agencies and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Second Wave Adoption Check out Nancy White's Second Wave Adoption thats creating waves in the educational technology and nonprofit technology blogosphere. " If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0 They understand what's needed to encourage adoption.

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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 to adopt. And don't forget, if you're going to adopt Web2.0 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. Ruby Sinreich just got back from a trip to London.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. If you can't to Naples and you're want to attend the Plone Conference, it is streaming into Second Life this week.

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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." See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0, Live blog notes from a session at Northern California Grantmakers briefing about Virtual Worlds and Video Games here. Need a chuckle?

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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. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns.

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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? How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth." The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Sean's take, "Innovations in online philanthropy is often attributed to ???young young people???, but I think it is probably more useful to think of the ???young

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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. How can we support innovation, invention, and adoption of transformative technology for the public good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

The corporate sector have adopted it. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. You need to get past the information overload and information clutter. Nonprofits lag behind the corporate sector. Introduced the concept of the Long Tail and the 80/20 rule. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. But Second Life isn't the biggest, and it isn't the fastest growing. These virtual worlds are, as one father put it, "the cuddly G-rated version of Second Life." It's just the most open. And they're booming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Social Media Nedra Weinreich's tip jar , tipped me off to newly published study from Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson from U Mass Dartmouth about nonprofit adoption of social media tools. " Britt Bravo is surprised that video is the most adopted tool and wonders whether it would be the same for smaller organizations.

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