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Google+, QR Codes and Second Life?

Care2

Memories came flooding back from January 2007 RootsCamp where a cadre of attendees were chanting “Second Life!” ” and holding up their open hands to replicate the Second Life logo. At the time no one could stop talking about the one nonprofit that had raised significant money on Second Life.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Google is rumored to be working on new glasses and Apple apparently has a new mixed reality headset in the works. Also worth a mention Second Life (founded in 2003) – an online platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and have a second life in a virtual world. Augmented Reality (AR).

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Yi-Tan Community Call #101: Real Life in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via an email from the yi-tan google group forwarded by John Smith The popular 3D online. world Second Life keeps popping up. Second Life's VP of. What can we learn about the future of life from. Second Life? there's more: we'll be in Second Life, too. RMT ) and more. Robin Harper.

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More about that Homeless Avatar in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? Rik Riel and Nedra Weinreich also wrote it up and I suspect it probably inspired a few Second Life Doubter's Club posts. The idea came up when we were talking about Second Life, and that you start the off without anything.

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)

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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. But first, skim through the discussion forum on TechSoup , especially if you're new to Second Life. Second Life crashed - and we were all frozen and booted off.

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Listen First! Finding Networks and Connections in Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Google Alerts – remember that they aren’t always accurate or enough to find everything. Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Ning/Yahoo/Google. Where are the conversations? Communities.