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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group.

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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

Virtual events are one way that this is possible, and they provide brands with an exceptional way of connecting to target audiences and connecting with future customers. . Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

Virtual events are one way that this is possible, and they provide brands with an exceptional way of connecting to target audiences and connecting with future customers. . Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. A virtual event can be a well-thought-out and curated live event.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

And if you’ve ever logged into this brutally confusing new technology, you’ve probably been literally confronted the sense that your avatar, let alone the emperor, has no clothes. This suddenly makes museum-hosted events have the potential reach of a television broadcast while maintaining more of the intimacy and interactivity.

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

At the Brooklyn Museum, you are invited to pick a digital avatar (image) from their collection to represent you. Because Twitter is designed as a broadcasting service, the focus is on action--things you do, links you discover. Of course, in most cases, contributors are spectators and vice versa; the audience is blended.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

It wasn’t yet my turn to drive, and I’d have been broadcasting observations all morning, with nothing better to contribute. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. No satellite radio yet.

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