Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2006

Here's the direct link to the TechSoup Office in SL, click in it if you're all set up in Second Life. If you are new to Second Life , here are some good introductory pieces: For more newbie and How-To information, check out the Second Life wiki: [link]. Library Services in Second Life [link].

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 28, 2006

I've been listening with one ear to the buzz about Second Life and non-profits for a while now, and paying it very little attention. The interest in using Second Life for online community building in the non-profit space has been high lately, and not just on the geeky fringe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

These tools are being used to announce educational opportunities and product availability and to communicate with nonprofit and library professionals and volunteers. Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. Graves manages communications via TechSoup's many social media channels.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

Does your nonprofit or public library need better technology? This webinar is best for people brand new to TechSoup or whose organization or library may be registered but are just not sure how to get started. TechSoup's donation programs are open to eligible nonprofits and public libraries. Or sturdier hardware?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

more than 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life. Pacific time. TAG: #TSDIGS.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Read TechSoup for Libraries' account of the Games for Change Festival to learn how libraries are using gaming to engage their communities. The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life hosted a discussion on whether games can be used to create peace and Carlos Bergfeld asked whether games for social change need to be fun to be effective.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Presentations for Webinars. Ask and Share with Your Audience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2010

I interviewed David Beall from SFHomeless.net and Beth Duttlinger from Alliance Library System who shared information about their experience creating and using a wiki. With nearly 250 participants on the web conference and in Second Life, we had many people excited to get started: read more.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

over 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries worldwide submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. Pacific time WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life TAG: #TSDIGS.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Whether you are a donor partner, nonprofit, library or NGO, or just someone who is interested in TechSoup, we would be delighted to hear from you. We are committed to providing you with relevant, timely content in addition to helping you get the most out of all that TechSoup Global has to offer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Conferencing Virtually : The Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference. From the TechSoup Community: TeleGreen Your Work Campaign (Week One). Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing. Ten Tips to TeleGreen Your Work. TechSoup Blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

ReadyTalk is available to qualifying nonprofits, foundations, and libraries on TechSoup for an administrative fee of $45 for a one-year subscription. Citrix GoToMeeting is available to qualifying nonprofits, foundations, and libraries on TechSoup for an administrative fee of $280 for a one-year subscription.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We received over 100 submissions from nonprofits and libraries around the country (and world) who've shared their digital stories in video , photo , and GoldMail formats for the Digital Storytelling Challenge! If you're not in the Bay Area, you still join us by viewing the event in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. What is transferable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2006

" Before CompuMentor, she worked for a medical library at the San Francisco General Hospital where her job responsibilities included conducting Medline searches for patients and doctors. She is also exploring how nonprofits can use Second Life, a multiplayer community on the Web. This was mainly because I wasn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

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

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging. Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0 There's also dogooder.tv

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 Unclear application. Why should I use Facebook?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

Photo from article by Adam Reuters, Reuters Second Life Bureau and used with permission. Then I happen to notice another article on Adam's blog - about an announcement that US Congress will make its Second Life site available to the public Friday, January 5, 2007. I'm going to stop by after the TechSoup meeting tommorrow.

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