Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

The session I want to attend is on November 12 from 1-2 PM PST and called "" Using Machinima for Social Change / Political Action" lead by Paul Marino. Rik has a good post here. Ruby Sinreich is one of the organizers. I have a board meeting for my Cambodian NGO, but I'm hoping I can make it there towards the end.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2007

This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits. I am a total Second Life newbie. I found this Second Life Basic Help page today which might help.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

TechSoup's very own Susan Tenby ( @suzboop ) was recently interviewed by Jim Love ( @therealjimlove ), Allan Hoving ( @ahoving ) and Janet Fouts ( @jfouts ) as the featured guest of Game Changing on BlogTalkRadio.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

For some ideas and inspiration, read TechSoup for Libraries' account of the Games for Change Festival to learn how libraries are using gaming to engage their communities. The TechSoup blog highlighted some nuggets of wisdom on using games to channel our collective power.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

[Organization Name] is a global network of philanthropy organizations, changemakers, and critical thinkers committed to ensuring that philanthropy reaches its fullest potential by serving as a catalyst for social change and social progress. Plain Language Resources: Big Duck’s Plain Language for Nonprofits. The Center for Plain Language.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Toan Lam is a multimedia consultant, university professor, thought leader, and former TV reporter and host who is on the forefront of the changing landscape of multimedia. He is the creator and host of GoInspireGo.com (GIG), a multimedia platform that "uses social networking for social change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Alexandra Samuel of Social Signal has an excellent post about of how to use your Twitter and Facebook status messages to change the world, one tweet at a time. She's also thinking about how to Change the World. You can find her Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, Second Life and many other online communities. And if you???re

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. The Alliance for Climate Education makes presentations about climate change to high schools around the US. It works really well.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It occurs when there is only the appearance of diversity, representation, or inclusion, and no effort is made to create substantial, systemic change. Use your nonprofit’s stories to show donors the change they can help create. Show the Transformations Storytelling is an opportunity to take the reader or viewer from Point A to Point B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. Change is accelerating. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Funding Perspectives: New Initiatives Connie Yowell (MacArthur Foundation), Franklin Madison (ITAC), Chinwe Onyekere (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), Jee Kim (Surdna Foundation); moderated by Suzanne Seggerman (Games for Change) Description How can funders with a specific social goal ensure they get a useful game? Written essays from kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Submitted by Paul Lamb, Principal of Man On A Mission Consulting As an avid promoter of technology for social change, and as an active participant in a community of faith, I have often wondered why the two worlds remain so segregated? BTW, if you haven't seen this " Guided Tour of Spirituality in Second Life " its worth a looksee). (BTW,

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. The same with Second Life. Organizations hold meetings on Second Life, I put on a sexy female avatar with my breasts hanging out, and I'm just accepted. We've been working on editing them on the fly to change the content of an active conversation."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Want to learn more about how gaming is changing social issue awareness and fundraising? Read TechSoup for Libraries' account of the Games for Change Festival to learn how libraries are using gaming to engage their communities. The TechSoup blog also covered the event, focusing on how to use games to build collective power.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

TechSoup was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler of social change. But at the same time there are many of you that we haven't connected with online and we'd like to change that. Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Please be sure to connect with us in the following venues: Facebook.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

NPLive’s second guest speaker was Nat Robinson, vice president for business development at SlideRocket , an online software tool for creating and measuring presentations. Robinson’s advice centered on three trends that are changing the nature of presentations. Presentations for Webinars. Ask and Share with Your Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Robb Cottingham tells us about a brew-haha brewing in the nonprofit social change space in Canada. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Laura White wonders whether " Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I'd also like to point out a video genre that has been used for social change: machimina. Although I could participate via Second Life. Need more inspiration to create video or machinima for social change? Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Check this out.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Last Sunday, I drove like a bat out of hell from my Sharing Foundation board meeting in New Hampshire to my computer so I could log in to the RootsCampSL session on "U sing Machinima for Social Change and Political Action." is this what JP is talking about?). Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah). A great FAQ is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. She works with nonprofits and government agencies to bring about health and social change using social marketing. Take for example her write up on Games for Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. I'll also forward his post to some of the gamers I know by using 06-g4c tag and forwarding it to the games for change list. Check out Nick's post and let's send a little blog buzz his way.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Social Change Activists. Britt Bravo covers social change and is the founder of Changebloggers. Alexandra Rampy , also known as Social Butterfly, covers social change and nonprofits on her blog. Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. If 100 Facebook friends (or their friends) donate $10 (or more so I can get back to my regularly scheduled blogging) and spread the word to their friends, we can change her life forever! It's her birthday on Friday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

It is described as: The Social Innovation Podcasting Channel is an open and collaborative online platform for cross-sector and multidisciplinary learning for social change. He mentions the Leng Sopharath Campaign -- he was a contributor) He also talks about Nonprofits and Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

Submitted by Susan Tenby, publisher of Online Communities for Social Change Today I had several discovery moments of serendipitous learning via Twitter. Twitter is becoming more important to us every day, and it will soon change the way we live. When I was 12, I remember my father used to mock me for obsessively checking my voicemail.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

Ordyslexie is not just a electronic school bag or tablet PC, but a socially innovative project that can change the lives of dyslexic children while giving a second life to tablet PCs. There are plans to develop the project in Belgium, Canada, and Switzerland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I also wonder if Facebook changed it policy about individuals only for profiles - the profile is branded with the organizational logo and name and I wonder if this profile will go the way of Ranger Rick. Fight Hunger is doing a lot of experimentation with social media - from their viral video contest to their fundraising event in Second Life.

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