Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

I learned about the Second Life Camera Controls Tutorial and now playing with the camera in SL during meetings is my new form of 3D doodling. The article provides a good primer and illustrates various genres of machinima created in different gaming environments. is this what JP is talking about?). Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" Came to the idea that if people play together, they tend not to think of people as different nationalities. " The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

I've seen this question posed in a different ways: What happens when fundraising strategies get remixed with Web2.0? maginfies the offline social networking we used to do before the Internet became a part of culture and lives? This is not yet formed, just thinking outloud. What happens when fundraising meets social networking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Michelle Martin rounds up some recent videos from Michael Wesch , the creator of The Machine is US/ing Us , including his newest "Information R/evolution," it is about how digital information is qualitatively different from information on paper and how this changes the ways we think about how to store, use, access it.

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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. NpTech Software and Web Apps Here's two new networked content creation platforms, although focusing on different disciplines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm. Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NTC is just days away! There's also dogooder.tv

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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. What will be different about nonprofits? What do non-profits need to do to thrive? Is this a shiny future or a dire future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

All of us engage our supporters in different ways. Shared some data about the differences and similarities of how people with and without disabilities were using the Internet. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Impulse giving, slightly higher giving amounts. What is the first step?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

I dusted off my weak Excel skills to determine that we had 173 different people use the #nmc2009 tag, and then did a count and sort to look at the frequency. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. 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.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value bringing global cultures and opinions into our institution? 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. So what's it worth?

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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. A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Speaking of nonprofits, food, and eating, Deborah Finn grabs a great quote " Organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast." Zen of Technology blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Check it out.

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