Care2

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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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. Virtual worlds are a new, emerging technology, and like any new technology, overlaying old techniques onto new platforms is disappointing at best.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. Organizations are using virtual training coach also called avatar, who engages with the learners like a real human being.

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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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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

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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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

In fact, one of the most significant ways that IT can help the environment is that it enables us to meet with each other online or in "virtual meetings." Meanwhile, virtual meetings just keep getting better and better. Video Conferencing Apps: Take Virtual Meetings on the Road. Image: Virtual meeting ( Shutterstock ).

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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. Now, on to the lessons thus far.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. You can read other posts about this project by clicking Tech Virtual in the "Past Posts By Topic" sidebar on the right.)

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Virtual Worlds. 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.

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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

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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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

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

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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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

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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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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. Deborah Finn isn't crazy about Facebook, although she likes giving virtual gifts and especially using the applications of her clients, like Changing the Present. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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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 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. Virtually no one was advocating for consumers at that point, so their rights were being significantly compromised. Many nonprofit want to "protect" their content. Sarah Davies, FreedomforIP. Get tech saavy.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Second Wave Adoption Check out Nancy White's Second Wave Adoption thats creating waves in the educational technology and nonprofit technology blogosphere. Events continue through Nov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. Google Earth launches Virtual Telescope: Sky as noted by the Viralroots blog where you can see both GoogleEarth and the sky. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

They’re building in a big and barely searchable virtual worlds like Second Life and they want to create content that hooks people in and draws them to come back again and again. Viral content depends on carriers to make it valuable. Good content is compelling on its own merits. A great book is good content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, These products are entirely virtual and are distributed virtually, so the time from launch to editorial review is instantaneous. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? Churn rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What would ngos look like if they were completely virtual? Six Degrees of Separatio: Cult of celebrity, user-generated content, online giving, and social networking. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. You shouldn't have a blog for the sake of having a blog because you'll have content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Global Kids , a nonprofit that worked virtually with a group of youth in Teen Second Life last summer on their chosen issue of child sex trafficking, shares its best practices for nonprofits. who want to work in Second Life. use real world content when addressing real world issues). via Spare Change Tip Jar.

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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. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. We’re going to make mistakes.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. To me, this confirms as viable the strategy of finding those community leaders who will carry your torch for you, and then messaging them with content to distribute to their friends. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. And sure, by some metrics, it's the biggest, most fully realized 3D world out there, full of user-generated content, sex shops and waterslides, and a whole lot of buggy, experimental experiences. And they're booming.

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