Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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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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Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. That’s what Jason does — he reaches people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. 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. I really don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

She is also exploring how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. TechSoup has set up a virtual office in Second Life and earlier this month hosted a mixed-reality event showcasing a new nonprofit directory. t able to conceive of Second Life as anything more than a game.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. 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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

So in the past month, the people who have jumped in are mostly people who are already familiar with the platforms we're using (the Web and Second Life ), primarily those already in Second Life. Not that that means that we are attracting solely gamers or the bored wanderers of Second Life. It's social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

" Way back when I actually did fundraising, this was like 20 years ago folks, so my skills and knowledge are a wee bit out of date -- the mantra used to be "Fundraising is all who knows whom." So, I started down this list that Lucy Bernholz has created, Online Social Networks and Second Life Philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Politics, and Activism If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war , Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. See this one-page parody of Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

What is your advice for people who sell their knowledge/content? Google, Flickr, Second Life and literally thousands of new companies depend on engaging users to make money, and the more people who engage with their content, the more money they make. Very knowledgeable and a good writer. Get tech saavy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

There are many third party applications like Wordpress and Blogger on which you can host a blog with very little technical knowledge. They have some content knowledge and an interest in engaging with visitors. If you have 5-10 hours per week, become a content provider. Start a blog. This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. More importantly, if you don’t have any knowledge of the group within which you’re releasing your content, forget about it. You’ll even fail at failing: you will simply go unnoticed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What is my responsibility to my organization - money, unique knowledge, ? They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Good or bad thing? What if we demanded that if our equipment suppliers took environmental responsibility for their equipment? Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It's supposed to be about practical application of scientific knowledge, not fear, dependence, or belief. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? Unclear application.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Video Blogging, Web Video, and Screencasts The Gurteen Knowledge Community has a great curated collection of social change web videos as well as some excellent ones on web 2.0. Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

They work "to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences, and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage. Global Kids' Online Leadership Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. An interesting article title, " Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools " speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently.

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