AFP Blog

JULY 27, 2006

onPhilanthropy: Second Life Fundraising: Philanthropy Dips its Toe Into Virtual Worlds : "Second Life Fundraising: Philanthropy Dips its Toe Into Virtual Worlds By: Tom Watson, 07/26/06 Soaring mountains, shimmering seas, futuristic buildings, strange vehicles flying in the air. And more and more, they give money away.

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MAY 31, 2016

Mobile Learning enables smaller sized courses to learners without restricting them to a fixed time and place, leading to higher absorption and retention rate of knowledge. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. Topic: Community Building, of course! The chat is just an hour long so be sure to submit your questions in advance!

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2007

We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here. She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. It's her birthday on Friday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

What's funny, of course, is that Rashimi Sinha works for Slide Share! A Second Life for the Archivist. It is another excellent example of "pivot" browsing, similar to del.icio.us where you navigate by tags, most views, or slide shares by users and events. Rashimi Sinha's article was very informative.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice. First, Jason Shim is not a famous guy. Silicon Valley North.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life. She also said that she uses wikis. Pretty cool, huh?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. December 17, 2007 | Meghan Request permission to use your beautiful snowflakes picture in a course Im teaching. Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. Of course, we can also have an ???official???

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. December 17, 2007 | Meghan Request permission to use your beautiful snowflakes picture in a course Im teaching. Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Of course he does great work leading the organization's national digital strategy, and they have plenty of work to do. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice. First, Jason Shim is not a famous guy. Silicon Valley North.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

And, of course, Facebook is a taste of what is coming in November. 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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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

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. I've been having a lot of fun researching some metaphors for the future and of course, I went straight to the Jetsons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." " Of course, I couldn't imagine doing otherwise! What is your background? Are you trained as lawyer? I'm mostly a geek. The higher your price, the higher your profit.

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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. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. But that's just a start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Questions Teacher's College - Course on Social Change - research available. Designing Change? What does it mean to design change? How can this group push the edges of that in a university context. Students are already activists. His presentation included video clips and he's a very engaging speaker - but a fast talker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. Joyce Bettencourt is a talented print and digital designer who also is doing some incredible work in Second Life. I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. New (To Me) Blogs Akkam's Razor is a play on the spelling of Occam's Razor concept (simplicity) because those domains were taken (and of course the other Occam's Razor Blog is from Avinash Kaushik ). All the candidates. There's a nonprofit track.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. How about Digg ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. How about Digg ?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing.

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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. 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. We’re playing it fast and loose.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. But of course mapping has gone public. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. Washington Post. Tech President. Fact Checking. League of Women Voters. Rock the Vote.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

When I worked on The Tech Virtual project , I was often discomfited by the fact that I would spend entire days interacting with 10-30 people in Second Life, when I could interact with many more if I worked on the museum floor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life.

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