Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. A place where individuals are empowered to use relationships and tools to build the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In fact, I'll be arriving in a Jetson like transportation and my avatar will probably look a lot like Jane Jetson. . My marching orders were: pull out a crystal ball and gaze five, ten or even twenty years into the future to answer these questions: What role will social media play in the future for the nonprofit, social change sector?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. " The answers: The subject is best learned through role-playing. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

And if you’ve ever logged into this brutally confusing new technology, you’ve probably been literally confronted the sense that your avatar, let alone the emperor, has no clothes. Undoubtedly this will lead to innovation that you extend into your physical space “Sure, that all sounds great, but I can’t get my avatar off of orientation island!”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Readers understand that one era compliments and empowers the previous one and that the set of tools associated with each era are not meant to be replaced by the tools indicative of the the era that follows. Thus, please be careful when using any tool that automates posts from one social network to another. The Mobile Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ??? which has been used since the early 1970s to refer to a specific marketing discipline, is being hijacked to mean something else entirely with the rise of things like social network marketing. I see that you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. They scan for conversations about their museums on Facebook , but more importantly use tools like NutshellMail to monitor and join in conversations happening on their wall.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

So, the answer is yes as a tool. Rather than ask if the tool is perfect or not, we should work together to make it a perfect tool, keep the internet platform healthy. But, the tools of the digital revolution are used by those against the regime but are equally used by those in the regimes.

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