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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. I'm pleased to say that I've perfected my notetaking techniques and am more comfortable with the multi-channel chat and IM. Except for two things.

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Information Island Grand Opening Celebration: Jeff Barr, Amazon Presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. I've written a lot about interactive lectures as an instructional technique in the real world - so what is the best way to bring that into Second Life. Got that?)

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life. It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. " Given that it is a virtual word, do online facilitation techniques used in RL or other types of online applications make sense?

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Nedra Weinreich: Social Marketing Guru

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My social marketing colleague Craig Lefebvre, who has a blog ( On Social Marketing and Social Change ), asked me to expand some comments I had made on the Social Marketing Listserve as a guest blogger. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This I see that you???ve