Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Educate about your cause. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. I found a bedraggled looking avatar sleeping in a cardboard box with a crude sign asking for donations. The event will also feature a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today????,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve traditionally relied on education as their main method ??? ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? You can create or simulate an experience that can evoke an emotional response from a visitor, as they have done with Camp Darfur. Sometimes this approach works, but more often it falls flat and is ineffective.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Virtual worlds allow designers (and evaluators, and educators) to explore new modes of content delivery that are physically impossible in the real world, but may provide rich and new ways for visitors to learn. The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur.

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