Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Halloween will also be celebrated in Second Life. I'm in the foreground next to Evonne Heyding who was featured in the Tech Soup article. Bedtime reading with the kids for the next few weeks is about pumpkins, ghosts, and Halloween. Later this month, they will be hosting a Harvest Festival with lots of fun activities.

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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. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2006

Here's the direct link to the TechSoup Office in SL, click in it if you're all set up in Second Life. If you are new to Second Life , here are some good introductory pieces: For more newbie and How-To information, check out the Second Life wiki: [link]. Library Services in Second Life [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

" Quote from Stewart Brand from this Worldchanging Article. 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 first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. (IDI)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

Here is an article about the event. England 06 Originally uploaded by randalcmoss. Well, Randall didn't let us down with the report: [link] The event raised $40,000 USD. Here's the flickr collection [link]

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MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. 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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Rik Panganiban, community manager of TechSoup’s Nonprofits in Second Life online community, rounded out the lineup of speakers by offering tips gleaned from his experience giving presentations in mixed reality environments – advice that can also be used in the offline world. Presentations for Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

Hat tip to Jay Moonah for the pointer to this Gartner article about virtual worlds. second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side. enterprises) will have a ???

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Check out the following articles from across the TechSoup Global network: Discover apps that are incorporating gaming dynamics into a fundraising or social good campaign. The events are designed to be a forum for ideas, discussion, and action to execute technology-based projects or campaigns. Gaming for Good Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

This morning, Bertie , sent me a pointer to this article. I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. Now this should set the stage for an interesting debate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

I learned about the Second Life Camera Controls Tutorial and now playing with the camera in SL during meetings is my new form of 3D doodling. The article provides a good primer and illustrates various genres of machinima created in different gaming environments. is this what JP is talking about?). Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW, BTW, if you haven't seen this " Guided Tour of Spirituality in Second Life " its worth a looksee). I would love to hear from folks who are also interested and active in this area?

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APRIL 23, 2009

EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One).

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

O’Rielly has a new online series about Women in Technology , with some really great articles. AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. He even asks “What would Jesus do?&#

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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. s article has been linked to from all over the web, expect more of these me-too???s t think I???ve Come on, get real already.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

I keep stumbling upon Paul's work all over the web - most recently he facilitated discussion on Second Life at Socialedge and a recent article CNET called Social Networking for All? Be dure to check out some of his YouTube videos really funny and well done!

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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. 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

JANUARY 12, 2008

TechSoup has just published a thoughtful article from Idealware that raises the question, " Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites ?" Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. It enables people to give to people in need anonymously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Ruby Sinreich mentions that a RootsCamp will take place in Seoncd Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. " I found article via a post from Maura Welch who writes the business filter blog on the Boston Globe site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Rashimi Sinha's article was very informative. A Second Life for the Archivist. It is another excellent example of "pivot" browsing, similar to del.icio.us where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. What's funny, of course, is that Rashimi Sinha works for Slide Share!

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MAY 16, 2014

He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. Jason Shim is classic in this regard. He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. Silicon Valley North.

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MAY 26, 2011

Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. As the article Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging suggests, "be a lemming" and follow what others are doing which can also help you discover more specialized, niche tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Her articles are informative, well written, and provide good context. 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. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup. Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog points us to a recent article from the Wharton School about Internet Collaboration and suggests that nonprofits should pay also attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). The Top Five Ways smart people are using twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources.

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OCTOBER 4, 2007

There's a New York Times article today about the virtual CSI:NY experience that will be launching in Second Life on October 24. For all those who wonder whether Second Life can be used for a mainstream, mass audience experience, the virtual CSI:NY experience will be a great test. Stay tuned for more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. Jon Stahl's link list points to an article called " The Question " - The number-one question lurking in every executive???s He wrote up in his findings in an article here , following a link from down under ! How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 and asking for ideas.

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