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JULY 26, 2007

This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits. Audio and video content will be streamed live between the two worlds. I am a total Second Life newbie.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Google Alerts – remember that they aren’t always accurate or enough to find everything. Conversations take place in both places separately and together.

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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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MARCH 19, 2012

On Wednesday, March 28 in San Francisco – and live-streamed online – TechSoup Global will screen and award the top photo and video entries. WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life. There was an overwhelming amount of talent and stories shared through the contest!

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MAY 14, 2013

Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life. Watch a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life.). You can also watch the awards ceremony live streamed on uSTREAM online for our global audience. Here are other ways you can take part.

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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. We frequently use Skype for conference calls, filesharing, and private group chat and sometimes stream or record Skype conversations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

Susan was asked about her role as the community director of TechSoup and the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and she discussed how the networks are connected to each other.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. We’re leading up to it providing webinars and chats, but will be hosting an awards mixed reality event in February.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years.

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MARCH 15, 2012

On Wednesday, March 28 in San Francisco and live-streamed online, we will screen and award the top photo and video entries. Pacific time WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life TAG: #TSDIGS. We look forward to seeing you at the awards party!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! 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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

You can discuss this webinar on Twitter with the hashtag #techsoup or join us for a live-stream of the event in Second Life. TechSoup's donation programs are open to eligible nonprofits and public libraries.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket. Some ways to do this include asking your audience a question and having members share their responses, asking audience members for real-life case studies or even live brainstorming. Presentations for Webinars.

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JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I predict the same fate for Second Life and other 3D-Virtual Words. Photo UgoTrade Blog. And, I got an instant response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

Via Cogdog Flickr Stream. Yesterday on Twitter, Alan Levine (cogdog) started tweeting about a Stephen Downes talk in Second Life. Yesterday on Twitter, Alan Levine (cogdog) started tweeting about a Stephen Downes talk in Second Life. with casinos " "The guy secretly loves second life."

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Video-Based Training: Video streaming has been around for quite some time, however, the new millennium has seen a sudden upsurge in the online streaming space, with YouTube becoming the second popular search engine after Google. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Angelo was live blogging it remotely here and the flickr stream is here. People were also meeting up in Second Life at the Creative Commons sim. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real life. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2007

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. The Flickr stream is here. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

TSDigs winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony in San Francisco (and live-streamed online) on March 28. If you can’t join the awards ceremony in person, you can always join via live web streaming or in Second Life. Voting is open March 6 - 11 so we encourage you to start watching and cast your vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. in the NpTech Tag stream. Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

Bfelice Flickr Stream. Anshe Chung Studios has been quietly building an amazing Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. The diagram above shows the 30 office spaces available for nonprofits in the project and who has claimed which space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. More information here.

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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. Rik Riel writes about the first professional orchestra to perform in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Torley Linden works for Linden Lab (Second Life). Here's his 60 second message and his is very expressive! Also, I have the RSS widget that streams the headlines from my employer's blog onto my personal blog. He's been redesigning his blog over the past few days, adding widgets for visual appeal and RSS publishing feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

If you are a visual/spatial type, check out their route on a Wayfaring map and their flickr stream. Check out the flickr stream here.). A podcast interview with TechSoup's Susan Tenby and Salvador Luna about TechSoup's Mixed Reality Event last month on Second Life. Hurry the contest deadline is August 17th!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! " (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. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. 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. But there is also a trust issue too -- particularly if you don't know all the avatars in real life.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2007

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. New Blogs Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs and we've just discovered his blog in the NpTech Tag stream.

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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. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. It was opened up for question and answer both in New York and in Second Life. local time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! 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. Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits.

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JULY 2, 2009

I used to obsessively check my email, and then I moved on to obsessively checking my Facebook feed, but now I try desperately to limit my distraction and ADD time and I just manically check my tweet-stream. suzboop on Twitter.

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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 Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle. without leaving the virtual world!

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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. It turned into a day-long event that was live-streamed, with food donated by local merchants, and it attracted news coverage. Docublogger video. Statesman blog.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. 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. blog thought it was cool too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. " And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

David Eckoff shared a story about his email addiction and how he kicked the habit and got his life under control. It was also great to see John Wall a second time this month! Jonny did a session on live streaming talk shows by doing a talk show. Not a bad idea to put a link in your twitter stream. Photos by CC Chapman.

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