Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

For three months, Susan Tenby and two other colleagues responsible for preparing content for the TechSoup launch, lived on candy. She is also exploring how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. t able to conceive of Second Life as anything more than a game. Even though I didn???t

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. Jason Shim is classic in this regard. He has served on multiple charity boards. Silicon Valley North.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Fundraising 2.0

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Virtual worlds provide an opportunity for social engagement with content, and 2. Most museums already have websites.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He has led crowdfunding initiatives across a variety of platforms for different organizations. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. Jason Shim is classic in this regard. He has served on multiple charity boards. Silicon Valley North.

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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. I think a lot of museum people are waiting to see the result, how the whole exhibit cycle goes, before signing up to learn a new platform and engage resources in this way. The landscape is foreign.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

This past Wednesday (October 24), CBS aired an episode of CSI: NY in which a killer uses Second Life to attract and hunt down her victims. The episode was a cliff-hanger, and viewers were invited to log on to a special CSI:NY-themed island in Second Life to continue the hunt for the murderer.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

There have now been a couple comments on this blog to the effect of: "Visitors already create content in museums through their thoughts and social interactions." One person commented that the more interesting question is not how we build a platform for visitor content creation but how we facilitate sharing of that content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. There's also dogooder.tv

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

It may take you only a few minutes to create a blog, but doing so means (hopefully) a commitment to frequent content posts. activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates. The most time-consuming part of this is not posting content (how time-consuming can 140 characters get?) The time cost of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

" Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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JUNE 11, 2008

No more, no less: Don’t listen to the man Fail, fail, then fail again Be you, not me If you’re into online campaigning, this is the right article for you, and your life will never be the same. ”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool.

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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. Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

If you post interesting content, the word of mouth aspects will follow. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us. can really provide content for audiences who use those sites—AND it provides a way to broadcast on your own site.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Online Video Service recently webcast a customers event via satellite from a submerged oil platform off the coast of California. The customer used the event to galvanize support for artificial reefs as a way to protect sea life. Q: What advice do you have for nonprofits that are considering developing their own video content?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. So what does this collaborative platform look like? We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution? Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. See Ethan Zuckerman's post offers some thoughts about the content that will be loaded into the One Laptop per Child laptop.) A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers. Other blog coverage here. It's called Moulin.

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