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. Tags: events conference ncvs netsquared presentation techsoup global. Susan Tenby: @ Suzboop.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Applications that allow the sharing of whiteboards and presentations are already available. Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). Crossplatform and Multichannel Integration: Tools, People, and Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Another Second Life lecture that I missed, but there is a transcript and a video ! Dr. John Bransford, education psychology researcher and editor of the book, How People Learn , gave his first presentation in the popular virtual world of Second Life. another transcript here ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

Travel also creates huge carbon costs to the environment. In fact, one of the most significant ways that IT can help the environment is that it enables us to meet with each other online or in "virtual meetings. Powwownow — a free web conferencing application that allows participants to see the presenter's desktop.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Although I could participate via Second Life. Machinima with Issues Engaging and provocative uses of machinima as art, advocacy, and evidence will be presented and discussed. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???

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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

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. Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Kevin j points to a pretty amazing movie from the presentation at last week's Net Tuesday. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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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. Check out this presentation from Slide Share that uses the Wizard of Oz to explain Web2.0. Someone asks , "Is the presentation effective is you don't know the reference? David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

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. Or are you primarily interested in reflecting and presenting local content and perspectives?

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