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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

RSVP now for TechSoup's fourth annual Digital Storytelling Screening and Awards Party on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Pacific time at PARISOMA — and join us in celebration of the many powerful digital story submissions that came to us from all over the world! Participate Virtually. Featured Appearances.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is ironic is that the WDM has not learned to apply what they presumably have learned from their other campaigns into virtual space. I.e. "Hey, idiot, get your head out of the digital sand and pay attention to things that matter." Namely that it isn't enough just to shame people. There's YouTube video here.

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Nonprofits and Second Life and Other Games

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susan Tenby from TechSoup demos the virtual TechSoup Office during the Netsquared Conference while Ruby Sinreich and Deborah Finn (Cyber-Yenta) blogged about it. The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. not virtual Tate Modern, though.)

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. The Development Seed Blog recaps the multi-lingual Drupal session at DrupalCon in Spain. Day USA East is October 15th.

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More about that Homeless Avatar in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mensajeros de la Paz with a virtual homeless kid has received enough Money to. So we thought about a virtual person with no properties. From there, we started to research how to create a digital abandoned child that would live in SL without family nor home, asking for money. In less than two weeks, the presence of spanish NPO.

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5 Fundraising Learnings from Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

I recently had the chance to participate and present at Salesforce.org’s Nonprofit Summit , a virtual gathering that brought nearly 8,000 changemakers from over 90 countries to discuss the future of the nonprofit sector. Truth is, our sector has been behind on adopting leading digital trends even before the pandemic.

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TechSoup's 'Novel' Ideas: What We're Reading Now

Tech Soup

The story combines a resource depleted Earth surviving by the international community's use of virtual worlds. Jarod Lanier is regarded as the father of virtual reality technology. In his best selling book he offers a provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. What about me?

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