article thumbnail

From Gartner: Five Laws for Exploring Virtual Worlds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hat tip to Jay Moonah for the pointer to this Gartner article about virtual worlds. but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. Meaningful corporate use of public virtual worlds/platforms will lag. Meaningful corporate use of public virtual worlds/platforms will lag. enterprises) will have a ???

Gartner 50
article thumbnail

Some lessons from the “enterprise”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008. There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. The striking thing: open source software wasn’t on their list. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. Be Helpful.

Lesson 100
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Google + Nonprofit Brand Pages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The long awaited brand pages on Google + are here. I put a post out on Google + asking what nonprofits had set up pages and was able to identify 88 from all the responses and placed them in a open circle here. Others are on the hunt for good tips (Check out Heather Mansfield’s Best Practices ).

Google 104
article thumbnail

4 Top Nonprofit Job Trends In 2021

CauseVox

Some sectors are recovering faster than others but they’re all growing, which means tons of new positions are opening up. . Arts and entertainment has the longest road to full job recovery at 18.3 months, followed by religious, grant-making, civic, and professional nonprofits at 13.4 months; and health care at 13.2 months, the article cited.

Job 78
article thumbnail

A few Second Life Tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alexandra Samuel from Social Signals starts off 2007 with several announcements related to Second Life - the addition of a virtual worlds manager and an Open house in Second Life later on today. There is also a post titled " Seven Reasons Why You Should Consider Second Life.

article thumbnail

Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Dee Albritton, Fast Forward. He is talking about outside activities. Close the door!

article thumbnail

US Congress in Second Life!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning I came across a blog by Adam Reuters summarizing the two other blog posts I pointed to the other day on the topic of " Gauging Second Life Hype Cycle" (BTW, according to the article, a spokeswoman for Gartner said that the firm has not officially assigned Second Life a position on its Hype Cycle, but is examining the issue.).