Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

" Griefing can be a problem in Second Life, although it does not happen at every location all the time. For example, at the BlogHer in Second Life panels and social events no problems were report as indicated by this report by VintFalken and the Information Literacy Weblog. "What about griefers?"

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

And a sizable crew of these young folks are deployed to monitor - and participate in on behalf of the agency - all sorts of social media activity. Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. The same with Second Life. The Agency is deeply involved in Facebook," I was told.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. In Second Life, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars. I had a tip jar in my avatar???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. So back to last night's events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). Technorati Tags: secondlife.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. I met with the group last week. We debriefed about the three levels of learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

The team at TechSoup has brewed up a select menu of tools and strategies to provide a social media curriculum to conference attendees on how to explore Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and applications for engaging volunteers and supporters around the world. Get in Touch Via Twitter. Will you be at the NCVS?

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Jeff replies, "Dad, I spent the morning at my private foundation office in Second Life where my avatar raised $600 which I then took to donorschoose.org to buy textbooks for a class I adopted." Rick Federn enters his son, Jeff's room. Jeff is on the computer. Rik asks him what he's up to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

A photo from this afternoon's protest poster and t-shirt making workshop that is part of RootsCampSL "J27 Events for Peace " Building stuff together in Second Life is where great learning takes place.The workshop leader was errcheck Hick (you can see his read t-shirt and ponytail in the photo.) He did an excellent job.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in Second Life virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2008

TechSoup's Susan Tenby , Senor Manager--Online Community Development , gave a prepared testimony before the the House Committee on Energy and Commerce' s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on April 1st about the potential of Second Life. for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. NTEN: From Phones to Facebook: How to Engage Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. TechSoup: Engaging Youth Using Social Media. Silicon Valley North.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. Now this should set the stage for an interesting debate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

On June 22nd at 9:00 AM PST, Jonathan's avatar along with Second Life CEO Philip Rosedale will lead a discussion with residents on the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. It will be interesting to see if Fanton's avatar looks just like him or something different. MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side. enterprises) will have a ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War. Unfortunately, most of the photos are under an "All Rights Reserved" copyright which can be a barrier to spreading them because you have to ask permission. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license.

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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. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. " Some statistics about how many young people are using various social media tools. local time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

That's my Second Life avatar). You knew I just had to do this. the lastest from Feedburner - the ability to put your log or photo into an RSS widget. The hardest part was the creating the jpg. Downside is that if you put javascript into your post - it doesn't show up.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. NTEN: From Phones to Facebook: How to Engage Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media. TechSoup: Engaging Youth Using Social Media. Silicon Valley North.

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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. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2006

STAND UP Events are happening all over the world, including Second Life. Second Life residents who Stand Up will be counted towards the Guinness World Record Attempt. There is a Kiosk in various places in Second Llife, including TechSoup's office at Information Island. You also get a T-Shirt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Last week, I met an avatar named Budley Omegamu who turned out to be Sombit Mishra who is a Technology Associate at GlobalGiving. and who knows, someone may follow the link and contribute.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2006

Great meeting today at the TechSoup Office in Second Life! It will be a mixed reality event -- in-world and in "real life" at the Tech Soup Office in SF. Let me tell you, getting all those avatars to look into the camera and smile is even more difficult than trying to get a group shot of a bunch of preschoolers!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

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. What is your (simple) definition of social marketing? We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? I see that you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Scarcity Thinking Michele Martin's recent conversation starter, " Is the Scarcity Mentality the Biggest Barrier to Social Media in Nonprofits ?" social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Global Kids , a nonprofit that worked virtually with a group of youth in Teen Second Life last summer on their chosen issue of child sex trafficking, shares its best practices for nonprofits. who want to work in Second Life. Bonus link: Global Kids Guide To Presenting in Second Life via Spare Change Tip Jar.

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