Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

By incorporating real legal and societal elements into the game, ProperLORDty's creators have ensured that the real life situation is getting more attention. Net Tuesdays are events that unite technology professionals with nonprofit organizations. In ProperLORDty, banks may end up taking away all the players’ money.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

UStream Producer — This cloud and mobile application allows you to produce professional quality live streaming events with many inputs at your next live event. CoverItLive — This embeddable tool works well for interactive typed chats that do not require full multimedia potential, offering a focused place for dialogue online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW, BTW, if you haven't seen this " Guided Tour of Spirituality in Second Life " its worth a looksee).

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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. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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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. You must read this post about blogging and low-cost nonprofit professional development. and Katya A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. Although I could participate via Second Life. Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Check this out.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2006

I had dinner last week with some excellent folks from the board of NAME , the National Association for Museum Exhibition, a standing professional committee under AAM (American Association of Museums). We discussed a variety of ideas from book clubs to Second Life meet-ups to exhibition critiques. attract and retain members.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals. 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

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Pierre Khawand is the founder of People OntheGo , a technical services and coaching consultancy designed to enable business professionals to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading. Barriers to Collaboration. Homer started off the conversation by talking about the roadblocks to collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes. I know that Second Life can be a clunky, frustrating experience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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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. Michele Martin writes about career development and professional development for nonprofit professionals. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Rachel Weidinger.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. Did we breathe life into their aspirations? Did we change too much?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Ultimately, my writing skills led me into professional pursuits where I actually get paid for feeding my addiction. 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. The professionals who run the Blood Center said they???d

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. with a few significant differences.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

This past Wednesday (October 24), CBS aired an episode of CSI: NY in which a killer uses Second Life to attract and hunt down her victims. The episode was a cliff-hanger, and viewers were invited to log on to a special CSI:NY-themed island in Second Life to continue the hunt for the murderer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World. without leaving the virtual world!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development. 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. Does this resonate for you? Why not take a few minutes to answer her survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. If you can't to Naples and you're want to attend the Plone Conference, it is streaming into Second Life this week. more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We both were trained as professional musicians and play woodwind instruments. (I Almost two years ago at the first Blogher Conference I was lucky enough to interview and get to know Lisa Canter (we aren't related but I learned a few things about the kanter/canter name from her husband, Marc ). I enjoy reading Lisa's blog. I played flute.

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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 30, 2007

The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

In nonprofit environments, there is less tolerance of "personal professional development" because of a culture of training versus culture of learning. Read more on this topic by Michele Martin and Rosetta Thurman at Perspectives from the Pipeline about blogging as low-cost professional development and her comes a follow-up post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. A wiki filled with information and presentations about Second Life in Higher Education.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2009

The ballroom session was filled, literally standing room only, with a crowd of both business and nonprofit professionals alike all facing similar challenges from one root cause -- they want to evangelize social media in their workplace yet continually face opposition from their management team and interanl decision makers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I've always had confidence that I can make the life that I want, and I credit them for empowering me with that perspective. I also found that blogging was a great outlet for the side of me that missed my previous life as a poet.

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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. Of course, they have professional fundraisers on staff. In case you were wondering, all of their marketing is done in house.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?" professional development. Unclear application. Why should I use Facebook? Does my virtual pet really need a social network? What it means is that we can share that excitement without vitriol or fear.

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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. Tags: virtual worlds professional development.

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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. Our rule of thumb on a professional video shoot, including editing, is approximately $1K for each minute of on demand finished content. Everyone can upload a video to YouTube or have one made and hosted professionally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Another punted idea that I still want to come back to– each year we have a professional videographer that captures footage of the event and interviews with attendees so we have an official conference video (we send a DVD to all attendees, which also includes archives of all the keynote videos) e,g, here is the one from 2008.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. Funny, another negative note on Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. All of this is sweeping many new questions into my mind.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I'm doing some experience design within the virtual world of Second LIfe, where I am humblingly, and somewhat embarassingly, a newbie. The talented people with whom I work, who make my content come alive, are the experts of Second Life, and they navigate the world and its quirks with the confidence of experience.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It's a warning sign when community members make comments like , "it was only boundless encouragement from Avi (Nina's Second Life avatar) that prevented me from giving up more than once." One of the community managers I most admire is Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science. A good community manager can make that happen.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. When I worked on The Tech Virtual project , I was often discomfited by the fact that I would spend entire days interacting with 10-30 people in Second Life, when I could interact with many more if I worked on the museum floor.

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