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. Audio and video content will be streamed live between the two worlds. I am a total Second Life newbie.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. (IDI)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Not about follower numbers, but about engagement and content. Google Alerts – remember that they aren’t always accurate or enough to find everything.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2007

When people talk about museum projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, I'm often disappointed by the short-sightedness of the vision. VAN GOGH GOES EXPERIENTIAL The video below is a gorgeous example of the possibility of substantive, emotional experiences with museum content via virtual world representations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Quarterly Impact Reports enhance your website, email, and social media content strategy. There will be multiple realities in the metaverse, such as Second Life (founded in 2003), and there is currently a global race to build the metaverse. How to Publish Quarterly Impact Reports. AI & Machine Learning.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. As the team’s Interactive Media Producer, Heyning is responsible for the look and feel of visual content as well as the flow of live events.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

It also hosts the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , supports micro-volunteering efforts , and curates resources like the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. To keep up on trends and innovations, we continue to seek and try out new tools and follow industry experts.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are also incorporating responsive designs to provide the most suitable content experience based on the screen size and resolution of learner’s device.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For example, co-workers can update or add slides and users can share a library of images, video, and other content for presentations – benefiting from their group’s collective knowledge. Presentations for Webinars. Leroux Miller kicked off the discussion by offering advice focused on online presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

You can read the transcript of this week’s Community Managers’ Chat here: [link] This article was originally posted on Online Communities for Social Change at [link] by Susan Tenby: Online Community Director,TechSoup.org and Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. suzboop on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. 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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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

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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. What is transferable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

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. Ruby Sinreich mentions that a RootsCamp will take place in Seoncd Life. More information here.

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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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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

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Over the past few months, on my own time, I've been analyzing the content of slide shows on this site and identifying slide shows to add to a NpTech group which only has 9 members so far. A Second Life for the Archivist. You can set up an account for free. Here they are, in no particular order: Government 2.0.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

Here are some other TechSoup nonprofit virtual meeting resources: TechSoup’s Communicate and Collaborate content resources. There are many other software and web-hosted conferencing services available, plus programs like Second Life , where nonprofit activists meet regularly in places like TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life. Social Networking. Mobile Phones. Virtual Worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Tuesday, February 13, 12:30 pm Berkman Center Conference Room 23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge, MA Guest: Lewis Hyde Topic: ???I I Own Creative Content, Therefore I Am, Not??? second enclosure???--the For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.)

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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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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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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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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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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds. " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

So in the past month, the people who have jumped in are mostly people who are already familiar with the platforms we're using (the Web and Second Life ), primarily those already in Second Life. Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life. It's social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. See this one-page parody of Second Life. or more like web 1.0?) " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. Digital Incubator Content - ten grants broadband innovators. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers. We identified four finalists. Peacemaker was the first place winner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. I'm using to collect resources and information I gather from Facebook for an upcoming workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. Many nonprofit want to "protect" their content. I believe in setting my own content free, but on the other hand I have to make a living. What is your advice for people who sell their knowledge/content?

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