Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

The Alliance Library System and the Second Life Library/Info Island collaborative group of librarians are pleased to announce the grand opening and a host of activities planned for Second Life residents scheduled October 12-14, 2007. Just got word from Lori Bell about the grand opening for Information Island.

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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

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. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. But first, skim through the discussion forum on TechSoup , especially if you're new to Second Life. Second Life crashed - and we were all frozen and booted off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Here's the email announcement from Alan Levine: The NMConnect Visual Symposium will be the largest collaborative art event ever created in Second Life! The schedule is still developing, but there is a call for Second Life Artists that will be open form now until the end of January.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In fact, Mayo Clinic's mission to "inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education and research" is echoed by providing facilities and services in Second Life. When did Mayo Clinic's involvement in Second Life start?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket , who provides insight into cloud collaboration for virtual teams sharing their work online.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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JULY 1, 2013

Web conferencing, voice and video conferencing, and other types of remote collaboration have become a mainstay in the modern workplace. Many of us still travel a lot to attend meetings, but we can be certain that rising fuel prices are also a fact of life. TechSoup’s Communicate and Collaborate product offerings.

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MAY 7, 2010

hosted a webinar called "Collaborate with Wikis" which was recorded and can be accessed here. With nearly 250 participants on the web conference and in Second Life, we had many people excited to get started: read more. On Wednesday, Techsoup Talks! We also had Sarah Manley from Wikia answering chat questions during the webinar.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket , who provides insight into cloud collaboration for virtual teams sharing their work online.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

SlideRocket also allows for collaboration, another trend Robinson identifies in the creation of presentations. Presentations for Webinars. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Yesterday on Twitter, Alan Levine (cogdog) started tweeting about a Stephen Downes talk in Second Life. Cogdog barked a few tweets: "Stephen Downes is speaking Second Life" "Stephen Downes hammering SL " like Star Trek. with casinos " "The guy secretly loves second life."

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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 9, 2009

And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW, BTW, if you haven't seen this " Guided Tour of Spirituality in Second Life " its worth a looksee). With a little honest dialogue and collaboration, I think great things could happen here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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JUNE 24, 2015

The project would not be a success today without the collaborative efforts of key stakeholders. It centralizes requests from the nonprofits who would like to benefit from the solution, distributes the tablet PCs, and undertakes public relations activities in collaboration with its partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

She is also exploring how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. TechSoup has set up a virtual office in Second Life and earlier this month hosted a mixed-reality event showcasing a new nonprofit directory. t able to conceive of Second Life as anything more than a game.

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MAY 31, 2016

Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. Virtual environment and use of virtual avatars in training is an exciting medium to target the young workforce, where they can create their own avatar, build their own challenges and collaborate with other learners.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. Zaadz : MySpace for the Do-Gooder Set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

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. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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MAY 26, 2011

Another good use of social bookmarking sites is to create group resource lists for collaborative bookmarking. Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking.

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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. She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. We met, I think, through CP Squared and Nancy White. It's her birthday on Friday! So, why is my top friend?

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. We are committed to providing you with relevant, timely content in addition to helping you get the most out of all that TechSoup Global has to offer. Please be sure to connect with us in the following venues: Facebook. LinkedIn Group. TechSoup Blog. SlideShare. Del.icio.us. Flavors.me.

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MAY 16, 2014

He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. If you can't to Naples and you're want to attend the Plone Conference, it is streaming into Second Life this week.

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life. Your face may not be there for people to see, but you should still act right.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life.

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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

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design.

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MAY 16, 2014

He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He is an instructor in digital media marketing at George Brown College in Toronto.

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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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