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5 Oculus Quest Tips for Nonprofits New to the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The universal menu includes: Apps : View and launch apps from your library. Create your Oculus Avatar. Have fun with your avatar! That said, for someone like me ( Heather Mansfield ) who is very uncomfortable on camera in real life, it’s not uncomfortable being an avatar of myself in Oculus. That’s it for now!

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7 Ways a Virtual Event Platform Can Improve Attendee Experience

AccelEvents

Many of the best features of an event platform can make the organization and planning process much easier for those in change. For a virtual conference or trade show, help attendees feel more engaged by allowing them to create a custom avatar. This avatar will act as their visual representation in the virtual space.

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7 Ways a Virtual Event Platform Can Improve Attendee Experience

AccelEvents

Many of the best features of an event platform can make the organization and planning process much easier for those in change. For a virtual conference or trade show, help attendees feel more engaged by allowing them to create a custom avatar. This avatar will act as their visual representation in the virtual space.

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Second Life As Alice In Wonderland

Tech Soup

In April, TechSoup Global's GreenTech Initiative will be kicking off a TeleGreening Your Workplace campaign to help nonprofits and libraries discover ways to save money, reduce travel, and still be effective in your work. This is the story of my avatar, JTR Arentire, and how he came into being without going-down the rabbit hole.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging. The library community has a large presence on Second Life at Information Island which is where the TechSoup SL Virtual Office is located. Events continue through Nov.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over fifty avatars attended. And, while, I'm not a lawyer, the discussion was so relevant to technology adoption/change issues and it Rebecca was a damn good virtual facilitator. If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. I learned a lot.