Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. In Second Life, the chat was very rich and made us wonder how much the RL participants were missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. But more than this superficiality. way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Looking for a way to integrate all these Web2.0 Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Yet another great example of using Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. These apps have the power to help nonprofits and charities reach a whole new audience and raise awareness about their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Ed Schipul wonders whether Facebook mobile and text integration will make Twitter redundant? million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Fight Hunger is doing a lot of experimentation with social media - from their viral video contest to their fundraising event in Second Life. And from these experiments they probably have seen some results that gives intelligence to plan an even more effective social media integration strategy. Or is it appropriate at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

He mentions the Leng Sopharath Campaign -- he was a contributor) He also talks about Nonprofits and Second Life. But as Paul pointed out in an email he thinks that ning has come close to integrated conversational media into a blog like platform. He also gives some of his projections for the future.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life. @santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month. Pretty cool, huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post. Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world.

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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

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

I had it on my blog before, but the now the integration makes it look much better and I've decided to add it back. I recently did an interview with a HBS student who was researching MySpace and Second Life (looking at Second Life from the standpoint of social networking).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. 60) Search « Notes from Care2/OneWorld/Interaction Fundraising Seminar | Main | MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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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. and Lindy Dryer work with associations to help them integrate social media. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Rachel Weidinger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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. What advice would you give to nonprofits who want to integrate a social media strategy for their organization. tools, and she's become an unstoppable force.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us Gmail integrates PowerPoint presentation tool for attachments. without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. I really need a vacation. More buzz here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It's here The context- arts educators in a workshop looking at how can they integrate the use of email, web pages, or google searches into their practice. Myspace, along with Second Life and things like MissionFish are good examples of "experimentation." I found this in flickr tonight in Nancy's flickr stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

See3 Blog writes about the advantages of the Convio Face App (integration with organization's Convio database) and the limitations (can only run one Facebook app at time). A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. 60) Search « Notes from Care2/OneWorld/Interaction Fundraising Seminar | Main | MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Museum 2.0

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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Care2

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 Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Care2

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 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

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. blog is researching options for integrating a blog with the organization's web site. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. What do you think? Any suggestions?

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. The man will come running up to your desk screaming “I just saw a demonstration of [A] and we need to start using this in our campaigns!”,

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Dear Museum 2.0ers, As many of you know, I'm now working for The Tech Museum of Innovation on a new proje ct in which exhibit designers, fabricators, curators, and visitors from all over the world can hook up to develop exhibit concepts and virtual prototypes in Second Life. But that's not what this post is about. I'd like to know.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The customer used the event to galvanize support for artificial reefs as a way to protect sea life. Those that integrate online video into their core marketing activities are seeing the most success. Q: Do you feel that nonprofits are currently maximizing online videos potential for them? Why or why not?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing. At least not yet. The social bookmarking sites offer this. com , Inc.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing. At least not yet. The social bookmarking sites offer this. com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

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. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream. I am not sure we need the scribe (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

In this session, participants will get their hands dirty planning a social media campaign that integrates traditional organizing theory and practice. The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. How can you get more people involved by meeting them where they’re at?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Compare the major campaigns and judge for yourself how (or if) they integrate social media tools to mobilize real people to action: www.barackobama.com , www.johnmccain.com , and www.votenader.org. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election.

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