Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Volunteers around the world feel empowered when asked to use their skills, not only to bring people together at an event, but contribute to something positive. There is a huge opportunity here to bridge the gap between donors and volunteers. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do.

Reflection 92

Reflection Causes Social Media Twitter 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. I didn't know Sombit until I met him - as they say - "in-world" in Second Life.

Second Life 50

Second Life Avatar Blogher Technorati 50

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. In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . Wait a minute! Isn’t that scandalous?

Virtual 84

Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. But if Twitter and other social networks actually provide us this kind of life-force-like sensitivity to each other now, is that good, or bad? Emotions are contagious, after all.

Twitter 36

Twitter El Paso Phoenix Haiti 36