Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Here are some of our favorite platform and application recommendations in the TechSoup NCVS toolkit for multichannel, live, interactive, and mobile media. UStream Producer — This cloud and mobile application allows you to produce professional quality live streaming events with many inputs at your next live event.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Nat Robinson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2008

TechSoup's Susan Tenby , Senor Manager--Online Community Development , gave a prepared testimony before the the House Committee on Energy and Commerce' s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on April 1st about the potential of Second Life. for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

The software for a virtual meeting can be either a application downloaded on each attendee's computer or a web-based application where the attendees enter a URL to enter the conference. Vyew — a free browser-based web conferencing application that doesn't require users to download any software.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Nat Robinson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

It is a Facebook application that I can click on and it takes over to the web site campaign where I can click and their sponsor donates.19 I'm also curious about a few things: The click to feed application - I tried to add it to my profile, but there was a glitch. Today I discovered the Fight Hunger's Click to Feed a Child.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

and other technologies such as Second Life follows a well established pattern identified by Gartner analysts called " hype cycles " The description is below and this visual showing the hype cycle for consumer technologies. There may be some successful applications of a technology, but there are typically more failures.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" 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

MARCH 20, 2007

(He mentions the Leng Sopharath Campaign -- he was a contributor) He also talks about Nonprofits and Second Life. He also gives some of his projections for the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

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 Online Web Applications and Nonprofit Software. Jon Stahl found a nifty online slide show web application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Commentary from Michelle Murrain Allan Benamer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Soon this empty space will start to bustle with Linden citizens for Social Good. And here's a Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Create portals and applications such that people can communicate and share when they are neither temporally nor spatially co-located. The Tate Modern has a great web application where you can create your own collection of six pieces of art around a theme, with your own labels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" suggests that the answer to fixing a broken email, the most widely used web application, is to add social networking features. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online. If your organization is based in the UK, the ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for applications. Check the web site for the application and more details. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. All the candidates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. The BuzzMonitor is an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media. What do you think?

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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

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They even created a Facebook application. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us. I read an article by the founder in Wired about how that platform was so different in terms of application development. Is there such a place?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Are the debates about what applications to use and which are a waste of time? It's supposed to be about practical application of scientific knowledge, not fear, dependence, or belief. thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. Unclear application. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" Churn rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

So, the same will prove true for Facebook and whatever other social streaming applications emerge. Of Second Life? Only later did it become obvious that networked connection was a productivity enhancer, and companies now accept it as routine. tool after Web 2.0 How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? Of YouTube? Of Facebook?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. Not satisfied with the puny 140 character limit on Twitter? If you have 5-10 hours per week, become a content provider. Start a blog. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. If you want your online game, short video or application to go viral, be prepared for it to take a couple of tries before it actually takes off.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

They’re building in a big and barely searchable virtual worlds like Second Life and they want to create content that hooks people in and draws them to come back again and again. applications, where users generate and manipulate content, as opposed to more standard content providers. And it keeps. Coming back.

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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. Many people focus job application cover letters and interview content on what they've done so far. But internship after internship didn't live up to those expectations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Increasingly powerful and feature-rich software applications are emerging to run these intelligent and interconnected mobile computing devices. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. How can you get more people involved by meeting them where they’re at?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. Funny, another negative note on Second Life. On Facebook : I think everyone agrees it’s very early. Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment UN Foundation Web Team Blog [.]

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

I was reminded of this pleasure last night, when I came home to a group of Second Life builders working in our living room. They were working on a build collaboratively, with one person's computer hooked up to a digital projector, so Second Life was about 4x6 ft on our wall. We were there when it was built.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. According to the New Voter's Project , texting increased young voter turn out by 4.6% in the September primary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. She also suggests strategies for encouraging your users to meet in the real world.

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