Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. To make life easier the boxes will grow bigger and after about an hour they will disappear. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. The Flickr stream is here. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War.

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Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. Conversations take place in both places separately and together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

Here's the flickr collection [link] England 06 Originally uploaded by randalcmoss. Well, Randall didn't let us down with the report: [link] The event raised $40,000 USD. Here is an article about the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

I'm working remotely on an unreliable and slow wifi connection and Flickr has been getting a massage (down for maintenance) for most of the afternoon. Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! In addition, no visuals either. and social networking tools? Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by lyzadanger. about the shelf life or how long a link stays alive before people stop engaging with it. It offers an estimate as follows: 2.8 According to the post, it suggests that what’s most important for content shelf life is the quality of the content shared, not where it is shared. hours on Twitter.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges and the community, will receive products from award donor partners Cisco, Adobe, Flickr Citrix, Sliderocket, Blazon, SurveyMonkey, and more. WHEN: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:00 p.m. Pacific time.

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MARCH 15, 2012

Check out the full playlist of videos on YouTube and gallery of photo sets on Flickr. Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges and the community, will receive products from our award donor partners Cisco, Adobe, Flickr Citrix, Sliderocket, Blazon, SurveyMonkey, and more. We look forward to seeing you at the awards party!

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. 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. SlideShare. Del.icio.us. Flavors.me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. Yesterday on Twitter, Alan Levine (cogdog) started tweeting about a Stephen Downes talk in Second Life. Yesterday on Twitter, Alan Levine (cogdog) started tweeting about a Stephen Downes talk in Second Life. with casinos " "The guy secretly loves second life."

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MAY 26, 2011

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Winners of the Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs) stand to receive exciting prizes from TechSoup’s generous donor partners like Adobe, Cisco Systems, Seagate, Citrix, Flickr, and SlideRocket. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

Bfelice Flickr Stream. Anshe Chung Studios has been quietly building an amazing Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. The diagram above shows the 30 office spaces available for nonprofits in the project and who has claimed which space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Angelo was live blogging it remotely here and the flickr stream is here. People were also meeting up in Second Life at the Creative Commons sim. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real life. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

If you are a visual/spatial type, check out their route on a Wayfaring map and their flickr stream. And speaking about using flickr to promote nonprofit causes ,Britt also points us to a new campaign to convince to the auto industry to improve fuel efficiency and eliminate greehouse gasses by 2020 called Jump Start Ford.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Torley Linden works for Linden Lab (Second Life). Here's his 60 second message and his is very expressive! I do a lot of video and photographs so I've added the flickr and video badges. He's been redesigning his blog over the past few days, adding widgets for visual appeal and RSS publishing feeds. His notes are here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

My Flickr Set: RootsCamp SL Machimina Session. 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. " In the guy in the gray shirt is Paul Marino from the Academy of Machinima and Moo Money from Alt-Zoom studios. (Hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Two days ago, The Tech Chronicles Blog published a post about Marc Canter's "Ahem Society" that used one of my flickr photos. So I complained in flickr , my blog and left a comment on the Tech Chronicles Blog. (I who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! (I I also asked this guy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

A Second Life for the Archivist. Flickr and Libraries. Here they are, in no particular order: Government 2.0. Liberate your control freaks: Driving social computing adoption in business. Google: The Search Engine Industry. Bottom-Up Tagging. Mobile Social Play

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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. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. It was opened up for question and answer both in New York and in Second Life. local time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. How might it influence your choice of using Second Life for a project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. Heck, that a lot of exposure beyond flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set. Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! A Better World In Second Life Blog is tracking political activism taking place in virtual worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

I found this in flickr tonight in Nancy's flickr stream. Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation." Time Originally uploaded by Choconancy1. It made me think about a post-it note from almost ten years ago! a person) actually participates in a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

Just like you would in flickr or other social networking tools. 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). Do you really want to be friends with everyone?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. We did this graffiti interactive via Flickr. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page?

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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. Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. 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. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk. The Socialmarkets Manifesto is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. " And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? I really need a vacation.

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