Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Aside from the Jetson metaphors, I have to start to thinking about content.

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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. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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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.

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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. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop? Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life. First, let's talk process.

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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 First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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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 Fundraising 2.0

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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

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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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 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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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

My interest in gaming in museums was ignited by working on Operation Spy, an immersive, narrative, live-action game experience at the International Spy Museum, and fueled by the CSI:NY virtual experience. So what does this collaborative platform look like? Will exhibit developers really use (and derive any value from) Second Life?

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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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