Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Here's the email announcement from Alan Levine: The NMConnect Visual Symposium will be the largest collaborative art event ever created in Second Life! The schedule is still developing, but there is a call for Second Life Artists that will be open form now until the end of January.

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JULY 26, 2007

This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits. I am a total Second Life newbie. I found this Second Life Basic Help page today which might help.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. But it can get a second life with a short version condensed to fit into a series of photos or a 60-second Instagram Reel.

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This free event will take place across three separate platforms: webinars, forums, and the virtual world of Second Life. Register to receive email announcements about the event. Attend the Challenge Screening and Awards party at TechSoup Headquarters in San Francisco or from Second Life.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The switch is almost complete for email, and is underway for most enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) systems. . Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Email us at community@techsoupglobal.org. We are committed to providing you with relevant, timely content in addition to helping you get the most out of all that TechSoup Global has to offer. Please be sure to connect with us in the following venues: Facebook. LinkedIn Group. TechSoup Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. Now this should set the stage for an interesting debate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

He had just checked his email and already knew about the TechSoup's Second Life Nonprofit Directory! Pathfinder Linden at the G4C Conference Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. At lunch there were small groups by region. At the Boston/New England group, I met PathFinder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life. million users. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. The mixed-reality discussion took place in real life at Seton Hall and in the virtual world, Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

She is also exploring how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. TechSoup has set up a virtual office in Second Life and earlier this month hosted a mixed-reality event showcasing a new nonprofit directory. t able to conceive of Second Life as anything more than a game.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

@amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. She also said that she uses wikis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. Here's another low cost email list tool, an email newsletter application just for bloggers called Zookoda.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In addition to NPLive and tweet chats, the Online Community Team reaches out to the TechSoup Global community through the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , social media , and an externally-facing wiki. The most important ingredient, however, that enables this collaboration is regular communication through weekly conference calls.

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The service provides 10 MB of storage space for up to 20 participants, who can be reminded of their upcoming web conference with email invitations. Vyew features a one-click screen, file sharing, whiteboarding, and a screen capturing tool that enables the user to reproduce their screen and share it with up to 20 web conferencing participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

He mentions the Leng Sopharath Campaign -- he was a contributor) He also talks about Nonprofits and Second Life. But as Paul pointed out in an email he thinks that ning has come close to integrated conversational media into a blog like platform. He also gives some of his projections for the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds.

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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. 60) Search « Notes from Care2/OneWorld/Interaction Fundraising Seminar | Main | MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? 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

And, on New Year's Eve, while I was madly working on the Sharing Foundation fundraising campaign , I found her LinkedIn invitation in my email box. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? " suggests that the answer to fixing a broken email, the most widely used web application, is to add social networking features. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2009

I used to obsessively check my email, and then I moved on to obsessively checking my Facebook feed, but now I try desperately to limit my distraction and ADD time and I just manically check my tweet-stream. When I was 12, I remember my father used to mock me for obsessively checking my voicemail. suzboop on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Any techie who has ever tried to explain something in email will just think this is the coolest thing ever. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. Blackbaud, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. e.g. is it correct to have an email conversation like this and then go blog about it ? (I Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us We all know what a pain it is to schedule meetings via email. without leaving the virtual world!

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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 ? Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. Is a email users and non-users the next digital divide? DIA Blog has some great advice about HTML email testing. I really need a vacation. tools to adopt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

I'll point to this in my email campaign to contacts which I'll be doing over the next week. Britt Bravo on her personal blog. smArts & Culture FiSpace Micropersuasion E-politics. Ricardo Carreon. Solution Grove. I also include some specific ways folks can help other give money. I used that in my post and for a post in flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! So, as I explained to the editor in an apology accepted email, this was teachable moment for me: Thank you for the apology. While I was initially flattered that one of my photos was published online by the SF Chronicle, they hadn't asked for permission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

David Eckoff shared a story about his email addiction and how he kicked the habit and got his life under control. I'm going to try this: Put an auto responder on your email telling people that due to email volume and deadlines you only read and respond to email between 11-12 and 4-5 and if it is urgent to call you on your mobile phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It's here The context- arts educators in a workshop looking at how can they integrate the use of email, web pages, or google searches into their practice. Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation." I found this in flickr tonight in Nancy's flickr stream.

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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. While it is important for nonprofits to explore new approaches and tools, it's also important to remember email fundraising stills continue to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. "Do young people have email accounts? The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

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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. 60) Search « Notes from Care2/OneWorld/Interaction Fundraising Seminar | Main | MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? 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

DECEMBER 19, 2006

In recent email back and forth with Alan Levine about this topic, he made the funny remark about the fear of "some big old mean commercial scavenger getting rich off my photos." who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! So, ahem, Sfgate.com please fix the link. I also asked this guy.

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