Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. Mobile Apps. NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Finally, as technology continues to evolve, Robinson advises organizations to consider mobile since a lot of presentation-viewing and sharing is beginning to occur outside office walls, a format also supported by SlideRocket. Presentations for Webinars. Ask and Share with Your Audience.

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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. Ed Schipul wonders whether Facebook mobile and text integration will make Twitter redundant? Mobile citizen reporting ?

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

" Virtual meetings are live or "synchronous" interactive meetings in which each participant sits at their own computer or phone and is connected to other participants via the Internet and mobile devices. The expansion to mobile devices is probably the fastest growing area of online conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

A Second Life for the Archivist. Mobile Social Play 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. Flickr and Libraries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. Silicon Valley North.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Bates has a primer for nonprofits interested in Second Life. Just remember that actions in SL can affect your life in the really real world. Wired stakeholders. IBM's going to bring broadband to rural areas over power lines. NTEN Member Beth J.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. How can you use QR codes if you can't afford a mobile site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Mobile Phones. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life. I can very well understand how this is important for a student project and even with some of the grown up projects I've been involved with in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Mobile MobileActive.org has released a new resource for mobile activists in the Spanish-language according to the AFP blog. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma. It's recently been updated.

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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. Katrin Verclas is the visionary founder of MobleActive and the nonprofit expert on mobile technology for activism, fundraising, and program delivery. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. He is the founder of Txtocracy.com , an open-source project that aims to increase voter turnout via text messages. Silicon Valley North.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet. Fundraising 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

You can find her Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, Second Life and many other online communities. Solidariti is written by nonprofit activist Priscilla Brice-Weller who is based in Australia. She's also thinking about how to Change the World. In Kenzo is a network weaver. And, she accomplishes so much offline too! And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Mobile Voter Blog is the blog for organization Mobile Voter and they are currently working a book with Rock the Book entitled "Mobilizing Generation2.0:

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? What is mobile content and to create it - found out here. It didn't take too long before we dogs (a lab no less) has appeared on a nonprofit app called Managing News. Michael Stein has a post titled " The Truth About Cats and Dogs and Lawn Chemicals."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

This can be low tech (talking) to high tech (mobile devices). Destroy TV is, among other things, an application that allows people who have the web but can't access Second Life (a 3D virtual world application), to operate a live camera in Second Life and chat with avatars in the world.

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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. My colleague, NMC's VP Alan Levine (aka Cogdog Blog ) invited to give one of the keynotes in their 3D virtual space. . They challenges are presented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Take a peek into the hotbed of open prototyping, game jams, and mobile media experiements, then consider how schools might start to build social change into games studies curriculum. Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. . Faster than I can type.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I'm going to try this: Put an auto responder on your email telling people that due to email volume and deadlines you only read and respond to email between 11-12 and 4-5 and if it is urgent to call you on your mobile phone. Joyce Bettencourt is a talented print and digital designer who also is doing some incredible work in Second Life.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Since we see many people carrying FlipCameras, mobile phones with video recording capability, etc, it seemed like it could be interesting to have people share footage of the conference from a participant perspective. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

One of the most significant advances in information technology (IT) today is the growing connectivity among devices— computers, mobile phones and even televisions. With the widespread penetration of mobile phones and other handheld devices that connect to the Web, nearly 4 billion people worldwide now have some level of access to computing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

But, clearly, the campaigns have made social media a central strategy in their Donor, Volunteer and Voter mobilization efforts. The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. But Second Life isn't the biggest, and it isn't the fastest growing. These virtual worlds are, as one father put it, "the cuddly G-rated version of Second Life." It's just the most open. And they're booming.

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