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. College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

"Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. Second Wave Adoption Check out Nancy White's Second Wave Adoption thats creating waves in the educational technology and nonprofit technology blogosphere. " RootscampSL got off to a great start the day after election day.

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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. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They even created a Facebook application. We also created the Brooklyn Graffiti Group. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. 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.

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Q: Before starting to film/create their videos, what are some tips or hints that nonprofits should know to maximize its impact and/or visibility, while still keeping cost down? At the low end, user-generated videos often look low-budget and can be created w/ even a webcam. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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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). It's amazing how much emphasis the students put on reciprocity: you respect me, I'll respect you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

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. How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

Penguin commissioned authors to create stories in unique, often interactive forms. Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes. When you put yourself under strict and novel constraints, you struggle against them, and that struggle often creates something new.

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