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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. Those already exploring the metaverse can attend live concerts and meet with government officials.

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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. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. whenever i???ve

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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. 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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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. For example, rather than starting by saying ???We

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. .

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