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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. 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

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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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.??? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With Are you suffering from Social Networking Web Sites overload syndrome ?

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Sue Waters offers some tips for improving the quality of screencasts and a thoughtful analysis of the pros/cons of using JingProject, a free easier to use screencasting tool also from TechSmith. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here.

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