Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

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. There is also a podcast interview with Jeska Linden from Linden Labs, creators of Second Life.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

second enclosure???--the For the content industries, the tools of enclosure (copyright term extension, digital rights management, etc.) Webcast viewers can join the discussion through IRC text chat or in the virtual world Second Life. From Lewis Hyde: Those of us who resist the ???second s about the money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

s These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry. So, if don't worry that we're over goal - there are many children who will benefit from the additional support. Ricardo Carreon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In the 1980s I worked in direct mail fundraising for nonprofit organizations, then I shifted into the publishing industry in the 1990s. Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Of Second Life? Stow Boyd points to this piece by Brian Solas and concludes with: I believe that companies will directly benefit from individuals building their reputation in their markets and industries through social means, as provided by Facebook and others. tool after Web 2.0 How short was the hype cycle of MySpace?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Healthcare and video game industry don't usually talk to one another. Created an island in Second Life - to share the meaning of digital media in their lives. They wanted to understand what other funders are doing; not duplicate and get more strategic. Opportunity to start a dialogue. Opportunity to learn from experts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Would you trust a survey report about consumer confidence in meat safety commissioned by the beef industry? Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

It's easy for people in any industry to get siloed in our own knowledge prejudices, even though research has shown that innovation happens when we strike out and try something outside of our comfort or knowledge zone. We've seen that happen with The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop.

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