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

JULY 1, 2006

I've been attending the weekly Friday TechSoup meetings in Second Life and you run into the most fascinating people. I didn't know Sombit until I met him - as they say - "in-world" in Second Life. He coordinates web development, donor traffic and analytics, and technical marketing for the team.

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APRIL 23, 2009

EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Elliot points out the Nonprofit Finance Fund's new package of services for nonprofits coping with the economy. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? TechSoup Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Just wanted to give a shout out and thank you to Paul Lamb from Man on Mission Consulting for helping us sponsor Leng Sopharath's education fund! I keep stumbling upon Paul's work all over the web - most recently he facilitated discussion on Second Life at Socialedge and a recent article CNET called Social Networking for All?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Fund the development of an ideal platform. Example virtual worlds: Second Life; Active Worlds; Entropia; Olive. The options: Funders support dozens of experiments on dozens of worlds that are not inter-operable, none of which are likely to operate at scale large enough to build meaningful community (default).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore how charities and nonprofits are using gamification. Mobile Apps.

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JUNE 24, 2015

ADB Solidatech also works to increase the impact of Ordyslexie by looking for funding and equipment. Ordyslexie is not just a electronic school bag or tablet PC, but a socially innovative project that can change the lives of dyslexic children while giving a second life to tablet PCs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The wizard behind the Frozen Pea Fund (and many others since) is Connie Reece, who specializes in developing marketing and communications programs that use Web 2.0 You were key architect of the Frozen Pea Fund campaign, can you give me a summary of strategy and what you think made it work? tools and technology. What didn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Connie Reece advises nonprofits on social media strategies and is the visionary behind the Frozen Pea Fund. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Rachel Weidinger. Danielle Brigida.

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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

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. 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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MAY 9, 2007

Perkins, an instructional technologist at Virginia Tech, has set up a silent auction in the virtual world Second Life to raise money for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund". The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Virtual Auction Will Raise Money for Virginia Tech: "Virtual Auction Will Raise Money for Virginia TechRoss A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

We Funding? So, I started down this list that Lucy Bernholz has created, Online Social Networks and Second Life Philthanthropy. What happens when fundraising meets social networking? What happens when fundraisings goes personal and connected versus organizational? I wonder if we need a new term to describe this approach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. If you can't to Naples and you're want to attend the Plone Conference, it is streaming into Second Life this week.

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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. Let your friends and family know about it, and help raise necessary funds at the same time." Because Yahoo! Answers, "Raise awareness for your cause."

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Make sure to read through the FAQ and look at last year's winners to get a sense of what they are willing to fund. All the candidates. There's a nonprofit track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Scholarships, Role Models (more women making games) How to build change: design games build tools to allow others to design games (example - funded by MacArthur - game to allow kids to design games) design as make-a-game.nl Looked at this question about who isn't playing. Bridge Change Parson's just starting. Faster than I can type.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

60) Search « Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities | Main | NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award » Monday Aug 27 2007 Grantmakers Dive Into Web 2.0 Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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AUGUST 27, 2007

60) Search « Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities | Main | NPower Greater DC Region Technology Innovation Award » Monday Aug 27 2007 Grantmakers Dive Into Web 2.0 Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. I'll come with extra blank index cards. I'm sure there will be plenty of pens at the Science Fair.). NpTech Talk.

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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. Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A. foundation match days trending upward.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work? Good or bad thing?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Funds received or tangible actions taken during or immediately following a campaign are other outcome measures. Outcome measures would include stats from your website hosting provider on click-through behavior by users. Did anyone click through to donate or take action after a call to action at the end of the video?

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. I say wait for the MacArthur Foundation’s year-long exploration of the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds , and for significantly increased daily activity on Second Life, and in the meantime focus on video and other live action social media opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. She also suggests strategies for encouraging your users to meet in the real world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Other blog coverage here. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. Perhaps a better title, a "Crashing Success," given that so many avatars showed up that it exceeded the server's and crashed!

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