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

JUNE 29, 2007

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! " (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. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

"We've been experimenting with using various feeds on our local CVS site to make it more dynamic. The front page combines several active feeds from our editors in a side bar and the news page takes a feed fom the local council and the ict page takes a feed from the local Digital Challenge blog. apps phpwiki & wordpress.

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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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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

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AUGUST 22, 2005

More than three million Americans participate in these local events each year, as do people in 21 other countries around the world. 27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Now, the residents of an online world are getting in on the act, too.

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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. But that's just a start.

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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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that truly sees these initiatives as part of their mission to serve their local community. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us. Maybe the Tech will have that with your new project in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Every local news station showed up. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. It's not about the nonprofit, it's about what they do for our stakeholders. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. He got a donate now button and raised $10,000.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives. What do you want?”

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MARCH 29, 2010

Local Community Organizers (#localco). What : This is a chance for local organizers to share stories and lessons learned and network with those considering starting a group. It’s open to the public so invite your local Atlanta friends to meet you there! Who : NetSquared and other Community Organizers. When : 10:30 a.m.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. But live a/v production of a day-long event is usually more like $1,200 to $2,000. Some nonprofits find creative ways to extend their budget. They can get a donated or subsidized videographer and/or editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

And you wil find a lot of local scenery in the flickr stream as people enjoyed the streets of Monterey. We initially planned to provide a small number of live streams of the main sessions, as our local conference host said they could broadcast to about 50 streams. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. Live Video Streams.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value brand awareness outside of local markets? Many museums run outreach programs at a variety of levels of local to global reach. But in Second Life, we were building strong relationships and empowering those virtual members as exhibit designers. Let's look at these one by one.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

From periodic candidate updates and requests for time, money, and votes to virtual phone banks , national and local campaigns are finding new ways to mobilize a growing percentage the US's 277 million mobile users. Andy Carvin and others just launched a new "tweme" that will track local voting irregularities. in the September primary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

You can also see if there is a local charity that you bring items to in your own world travels. The annual international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is taking place in Bali and in Second Life from December 3-8th. And you don't have purchase new stuff to give a gift.

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