Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Chavez believes that the key to effective blogging is anticipating what the audience hopes to take from an educational event and guiding an audience to a greater understanding of a topic. Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2010

This session will help participants to assess their organization’s technology needs and capacity; work with technical volunteers; and understand the role of technology planning as the foundation for an effective operating environment. Mixed Reality Learning Lab. Dates: All conference long!

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Neon CRM

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. However, it’s critical for that organizations don’t just tell stories effectively—they have to tell them ethically, too. Maybe the first version of the story is a long-form written narrative.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

It is redefining workforce learning methods and tools, allowing organizations to nurture their talent in the most effective way. It is growing to be an effective medium for creating bite-sized and engaging learning modules. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning. Henry Jenkins [link]. Clay Shirky [link].

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

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. The TechSoup blog also covered the event, focusing on how to use games to build collective power. Kevin Lo contributed to this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And if nonprofit and do gooder techies are serious about social change, why aren't they tapping into some of the largest and most effective community-based organizations out there? And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW,

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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

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. More information here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

An effective digital story doesn’t necessarily require the best production – the call to action and how inspired you are to take up that call should matter more. If you can’t join the awards ceremony in person, you can always join via live web streaming or in Second Life.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Pierre Khawand is the founder of People OntheGo , a technical services and coaching consultancy designed to enable business professionals to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading. Barriers to Collaboration. Homer started off the conversation by talking about the roadblocks to collaboration.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. Additionally, check out TechSoup's recap of Nonprofits Live: Gaming.

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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. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ???

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. As the article Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging suggests, "be a lemming" and follow what others are doing which can also help you discover more specialized, niche tags.

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Tech Soup

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. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. At a recent event I attended, one of the speakers said something to the effect of, 'We need to be the best that we can be, so that others can be the best that they can be.' He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Fight Hunger is doing a lot of experimentation with social media - from their viral video contest to their fundraising event in Second Life. And from these experiments they probably have seen some results that gives intelligence to plan an even more effective social media integration strategy. Or is it appropriate at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

We believe that this sort of project is something that all teachers can eventually incorporate at the high school level and is an essential tool for developing effective digital citizenship. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life.

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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. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively? 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

JANUARY 2, 2007

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). " Or whether having too many friends or contacts makes you less effective. Do I want to be able to recontact this person for something in the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

After all, any property regime will enable or disable a range of social identities; in the case of intellectual property, the rules of the game profoundly effect whether or not certain public lives can truly flourish. Webcast viewers can join the discussion through IRC text chat or in the virtual world Second Life.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. At a recent event I attended, one of the speakers said something to the effect of, 'We need to be the best that we can be, so that others can be the best that they can be.' He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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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

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. What has made Austin Social Media Club efforts so effective is that our members are highly engaged in social networking. You should also be building your own online network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. But rather than the person of the year being the you in user, isn't it the us in users?

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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. How to deal with this confusion of variables to make effective decisions. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers. We identified four finalists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation." That said, I think we've tapped into something worth exploring - be it a long tail effect of LLS communities, or something wholly new we're not yet sure. a person) actually participates in a community. I have no idea.

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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. The fun part is figuring out how to effectively deliver a 3D presentation in a 3D space. What do non-profits need to do to thrive?

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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. Do you have any advice or best practices on how to do this effectively? Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

There have now been a couple comments on this blog to the effect of: "Visitors already create content in museums through their thoughts and social interactions." One person commented that the more interesting question is not how we build a platform for visitor content creation but how we facilitate sharing of that content. Great point.

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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. Someone asks , "Is the presentation effective is you don't know the reference? Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. What do you think?

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