Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. ve found the environment elaborately constructed but humanly forbidding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." For companies looking to use virtual worlds for marketing, avatar engagement is the Holy Grail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! How could explore culture in a virtual environment as a learning experience that is connected to a real life experience? The students will be presenting this formally in a week or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

There were some technical issues, but that didn't prevent me from having an extremely engaging conversation in Second Life while listening to a fascinating panel on how technology should be integrated into the law curriculum and how professors can incorporate it effectively in their pedagogy to engage student learning.

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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. The educators are asking and researching, "What does the extra effort of working in this immersive environment get you, concretely, in learning outcomes?"

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