Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Sometimes it doesn't support the process of collaboration effectively for all the reasons we already know. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. How does SL compare to these other tools and where does it fit on the gradient?

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. world whether through disability, illiteracy, or poverty.

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MAY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . This made think about focusing less on the tools, but more on the implications for nonprofits. The illusion of institution boundaries is crumbling - collaboration proves more useful. It was funny at the time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There are better and more efficient channels for collaboration, conference calls for one. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? avies' to stand around and chat.

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MAY 9, 2007

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. Collaborative Experience. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 Fundamentally, virtual worlds are a new communication medium.

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MAY 27, 2010

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. The Tools by Jordan Viator of Convio Social media tools tend to be "bright, shiny objects" with which organizations become enamored. Think of the impact the folks at Movember are having, only online.)

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

While this can be facilitated digitally, it doesn't take complicated tools to create an environment in which guests are treated personally based on their preferences and interests. At the Lab, your profile is a simple cache of personal data you can draw on as collaborator, co-creating the exhibit content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2012

AXIS creates, performs, and teaches “physically integrated dance”— a contemporary dance form that evolves from the collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities. (Mission sentence or two and budget size/staff numbers). AXIS Dance Company is based in Oakland, CA.

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