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5 Oculus Quest Tips for Nonprofits New to the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The ability to build and customize your home environment, according to Meta, is coming soon along with the ability to invite your Oculus friends for a visit. Sharing : Cast, take photos, and record video in VR. Create your Oculus Avatar. Have fun with your avatar! Store : Find new apps and experiences in the Oculus Store.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from Carmello. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement? "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island.

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Brighton Beach Brainstorm

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. He would like to see the disability community speak with one voice on these issues. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. They can participate in a world accessible to them without having a disability.

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Games for Change: Al Gore, Supporting Vets, and Making Civics Fun

Tech Soup

"At-risk" is the latest in a series of simulations created by Kognito that enables people to roleplay difficult conversations and situations with returning soldiers and their families in a safe and supported environment. Al Gore: Games for the Environment. Photo: corley may.

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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. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. local time).

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

What may be just one fun photo of a staff member can destroy the professionalism of your office. Should you have a dress and behavior code for staff and others who become "friends", including their avatars? And it can be, but too often, we fail to see the other side. The $500 you make in donations may cost you $12,000.