Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits. I am a total Second Life newbie. I found this Second Life Basic Help page today which might help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I was hired in July 2009 to come into the organization and breathe life into social networking, explore new opportunities and empower the volunteers. Lastly, to be effective you must stay up-to-speed on the rapidly changing landscape of social media. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2018

They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. He sees the changes and pops the cartridge into his gaming system. It did so by changing into something Alex would like to play.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. The same with Second Life. Organizations hold meetings on Second Life, I put on a sexy female avatar with my breasts hanging out, and I'm just accepted. All the guys have learned to use female avatars and personae on the sites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook. It’s built on the simple concept of donating your loose change to charity and thus far almost 400 nonprofits have signed up and been approved.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2010

• Justin cited the campaign Care2 did for climate change advocates 1Sky. • Justin also pointed to this article on how to bring social network avatars to life and an essay on how slacktivism is a misnomer. By the way, Care2 is up to 14 million members now and still growing like gangbusters.).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

When you try to explain how the Web can be used for social change to a colleague, family member or friend, do they get a glazed and confused look in their eye? has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. Because Yahoo!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. TV is about to change dramatically. We might just discover that sometimes social networking communities simply go dormant and can brought back to life. VIDEO: How to Write in Cursive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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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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. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it. The John D.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."--Lev It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I mention this only because my life is now directly impacted by cancer in ways I could not have predicted a few months ago. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do. Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. Take for example her write up on Games for Change.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

Online Fundraising: A look at growth in online giving, yearly patterns of giving, average gift size, monthly giving and fundraising messaging rates Online Advocacy: How are advocacy open, click-through, page completion and response rates changing and what impact are super-activists having? More benchmark articles can be found here.

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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. . What do non-profits need to do to thrive?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. Did we change too much? Did we breathe life into their aspirations? Did we honor their intentions?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

He hasn't changed anything under the hood to accomplish this; he just drives in an extremely efficient manner. As the article says: The fcd changed the driving game for Wayne. In broad strokes, the fcd is just an gaming extension of life logging--passive data collection about all kinds of aspects of life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1. Let’s start with the basics.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

The social media landscape is ever-changing, so remembering what’s what is no easy feat. A/B tests happen in real life too. Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A play on words of the infamous emoji; these are customized avatars (see how we learn as we go along?!). Social Media. Geotagging .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Global Kids , a nonprofit that worked virtually with a group of youth in Teen Second Life last summer on their chosen issue of child sex trafficking, shares its best practices for nonprofits. who want to work in Second Life. via Spare Change Tip Jar. via Spare Change Tip Jar. These include general tips (e.g.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook. It’s built on the simple concept of donating your loose change to charity and thus far almost 400 nonprofits have signed up and been approved.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And for those that kind of balked at that, we changed the conversation. We changed it to that’s $40 a month, that’s $10 a week. It just suddenly means they got caught up in life and they’re busy and they need to be reminded. . Just remember, it is not personal if they don’t give, it’s just life.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 17, 2023

Or maybe they don’t see the connection between their donation and making a difference in someone’s life. Find New Donors with an Ideal Donor Profile Ok, hang on, because this is an old marketing tool called an avatar that I’ve adapted for fundraising. Maybe they haven’t given because they haven’t been asked. And definitely Ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook. A good social media manager that is in touch with how Pinterest has changed content consumption on the Web will be all over this tool!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The project was a chaotic experiment in several ways, and because things kept changing, the community had to keep relying on me as their sole source of information about how things would move forward. One of the community managers I most admire is Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science.

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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. Because things have changed. 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?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook. A good social media manager that is in touch with how Pinterest has changed content consumption on the Web will be all over this tool!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

What would we have changed? Schedule things, and have a single coordinator for the life of the campaign. One possibility would have been to temporarily change our avatars to include a visual cue–like the Visible Government maple leaf–for all those officially behind the campaign. What worked? What didn’t? What worked?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook. A good social media manager that is in touch with how Pinterest has changed content consumption on the Web will be all over this tool!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

While at first it may feel a little narcissistic, it is a clever and moving exhibition of your Facebook life – and one of the few Facebook apps I have recommended that anyone add on Facebook. A good social media manager that is in touch with how Pinterest has changed content consumption on the Web will be all over this tool!

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