Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. We go to WOW server and get a group together. College students have led the fight on issues. We identified four finalists. Peacemaker was the first place winner. To get gamers to hook up and play.

Game 50

Game International Darfur Sudan 50

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.

Game 50

Game Change Conference India 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon, the capstone thesis project for Heinz School Masters students. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. What do you think?

Nptech 50

Nptech Summary Tag Conversation 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We also created the Brooklyn Graffiti Group. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us. Maybe the Tech will have that with your new project in Second Life.

Museum 27

Museum Interview Flickr YouTube 27

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. Theres no question that such creative strategies will emerge in greater volume during 2007, and while some existing consultants are already helping groups make this work, theres plenty of room for some savvy specialists to get in the game.

Consultant 31

Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. Theres no question that such creative strategies will emerge in greater volume during 2007, and while some existing consultants are already helping groups make this work, theres plenty of room for some savvy specialists to get in the game.

Consultant 31

Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Post conference, I also learned of TwapperKeepr and Roomatic as hashtag grouping tools. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web. This can be proverbial low hanging fruit (and why is that always a good thing??

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day?

Virtual 20

Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes. Being forced to design inside the bizarre physics of the Second Life design environment has taken us places we wouldn't have gone with traditional exhibit design tools. One is distributed across blogs and twitter feeds.

Story 20

Story Museum Exercise Design 20