Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

This year, for the first time, Walk the World will also take place in Second Life. On the screens at the Auditorium they will have live feeds from the real life walk from all over the world. There will also be an opportunity to donate to help end child hunger in real life by donating in donation boxes surrounding the Auditorium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Rik Riel and Nedra Weinreich also wrote it up and I suspect it probably inspired a few Second Life Doubter's Club posts. The idea came up when we were talking about Second Life, and that you start the off without anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? At the Full Moon Museum in front of the ACS Donation Box. So I joined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. In Second Life, you can build a 3-D display and donation box where avatars can contribute Linden dollars. How did you get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. Except for two things.

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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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JUNE 1, 2010

Learn more about TechSoup's product donation program and how to get started with this free webinar. Join TechSoup, get registered, learn what it means to be qualified and eligible for different donation and discount programs, and start requesting donations. Or sturdier hardware? Pacific time (2 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Telling a good story can also give your donors confidence that your nonprofit is making an impact and that their donations are used effectively. Show what donations to your nonprofit can help accomplish. When supporters can visualize who their donations can impact, your stories hold more power. Show the difference.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Here are TechSoup members from HollabackDC talking about Flip Video cameras that they received from a donation through TechSoup (a new Flip bundle will be coming soon). It also features stories of the real world impact of our Second Life members who participate in the Nonprofit Commons. read more.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The speakers also discussed how some players of the popular Diablo 3 game are donating the "gold" earned in the game to charities in Africa. The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life hosted a discussion on whether games can be used to create peace and Carlos Bergfeld asked whether games for social change need to be fun to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. Currently, he's developing new viral strategies to increase exposure, traffic, and donations to projects featured on GlobalGiving. and who knows, someone may follow the link and contribute.).

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APRIL 23, 2009

From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. It's been a big week in the TechSoup universe. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One).

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JUNE 24, 2015

More than 2,000 donated and refurbished tablet PCs with Microsoft OneNote have helped Ordyslexie to create a cost-effective way to provide dyslexic children an easier way to learn. Mr. Masson persuaded Air France to donate its pilots' tablet PCs to projects like Ordyslexie. Air France gladly donated 2,000 tablet PCs with styluses.

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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. Our family is not wealthy, so coming up with the $1,000 donation to the Sharing Foundation which manages the program is a stretch. Donate now. She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. Third Sector Today: Bitcoins, Donations and NTE N. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. Silicon Valley North.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

It is a Facebook application that I can click on and it takes over to the web site campaign where I can click and their sponsor donates.19 I also discovered a group called " I will donate $1 for every person that joins this group to Fight Hunger " which is being organized by some super activists high school kids.). (I

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MAY 26, 2011

Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. used Microsoft tags placed on supermarket staples such as milk and water and prompted shoppers to donate the value of the items they were shopping for to UNICEF. The campaign.

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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. Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations. If this is you, then "A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising" is a must-read on how to make up for the lost time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life. It turned into a day-long event that was live-streamed, with food donated by local merchants, and it attracted news coverage. Docublogger video. Statesman blog.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. Third Sector Today: Bitcoins, Donations and NTE N. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God. Silicon Valley North.

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JULY 1, 2013

TechSoup's new Audio and Video Conferencing Toolkit has everything you need to help your organization hold virtual meetings or trainings with donated or free software. Explore the options that will work best for your organization — not only to lower your travel and fuel costs but to lower your carbon footprint too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? 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

JANUARY 2, 2007

So, I figured what the heck, I'll make her a friend and ask her to donate. I recently did an interview with a HBS student who was researching MySpace and Second Life (looking at Second Life from the standpoint of social networking). Well, she did ! How might I harvest this contact in the future?

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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. Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations. If this is you, then "A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising" is a must-read on how to make up for the lost time.

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JULY 16, 2007

Slip sliding away at the Relay For Life snail race: "SUNSET BEACH -- British resident Pyrii Akula, a student studying 3D modeling at Bournemouth University in real life, won the Relay for Life giant snail race yesterday. The event, in its second year, is a race across 45 sims in the virtual world of Second Life.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

has been around for a while, and may not sound as mysterious as del.icio.us , RSS or Second Life to your listener, try using some of their examples to start. Organize donations, get-togethers and rallies. for Good has some interesting examples up right now of how their tools can be used for good. Because Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice. A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. It's game based on how your vocabulary is. blog thought it was cool too.

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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. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? Too bad Apple isn't donating them to nonprofits! It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News. Michael Stein has a post titled " The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Lawn Chemicals."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education. and asking for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

You are donating assets into that scarce pool that is available to nonprofits, and it doesn't cost you anything to do so! Google, Flickr, Second Life and literally thousands of new companies depend on engaging users to make money, and the more people who engage with their content, the more money they make.

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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. Audiences won't stick with nonprofits that don't make progress on issues and won't donate to groups that aren't having MAJOR impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

He got a donate now button and raised $10,000. Do you think you have responsibility that money is donated through your network is well spent? They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. It's not about the nonprofit, it's about what they do for our stakeholders. Every local news station showed up.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? Donations How much money is being donated? As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. Do you hope to generate a certain amount of donations from a widget?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations? Donations How much money is being donated? As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. Do you hope to generate a certain amount of donations from a widget?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

They can get a donated or subsidized videographer and/or editor. Did anyone click through to donate or take action after a call to action at the end of the video? Yeah, I know, that can add up. But live a/v production of a day-long event is usually more like $1,200 to $2,000. Some nonprofits find creative ways to extend their budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

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. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream.

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