Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I also think the Student Code of Ethics are good model too - sort of like online community standards or codes of conduct. 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 like the pointer to David Warlock's Tag Generator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (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. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. We need to establish a presence for our organization in Second Life,??? ve been exploring Second Life and avatar marketing ???

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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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AFP Blog

JULY 16, 2007

Slip sliding away at the Relay For Life snail race: "SUNSET BEACH -- British resident Pyrii Akula, a student studying 3D modeling at Bournemouth University in real life, won the Relay for Life giant snail race yesterday. The event, in its second year, is a race across 45 sims in the virtual world of Second Life.

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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. In March, we selected the best of the virtual exhibits for translation into the real world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. And here's a Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. They think of each other as gamers. These are powerful experiences. Those people come back and have greater depth of understanding.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Why would they want a Second Life presence? How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

In the days of newspapers, the best business model was to sell content to consumers. Today, the best business model is to sell eyeballs to advertisers. What is your advice for people who sell their knowledge/content? Get tech saavy. The higher your price, the higher your profit.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Scholarships, Role Models (more women making games) How to build change: design games build tools to allow others to design games (example - funded by MacArthur - game to allow kids to design games) design as make-a-game.nl Researcher working with kids disabilities. Discovered that the kids weren't playing because of the design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Global Kids , a nonprofit that worked virtually with a group of youth in Teen Second Life last summer on their chosen issue of child sex trafficking, shares its best practices for nonprofits. who want to work in Second Life. Bonus link: Global Kids Guide To Presenting in Second Life via Spare Change Tip Jar.

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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. The transformative power of technology has been successfully leveraged in the business community and has produced “game changing” models such as eBay and Google.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 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. to support programs and exhibits.

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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 also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2006

We discussed a variety of ideas from book clubs to Second Life meet-ups to exhibition critiques. This is the "spiritual center" model of an organization. They are trying to find better ways to provide value to their members, so that they can a. have a more active, engaged, useful role in people's work and b.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Get to know "Tom" -- the groups that have developed partnerships with MyFace, YouTube, Change.org, etc get preferential treatment and promotion, which smacks a bit of the good ol fashioned broadcast model that can increase the chances of things going "viral" within the social networking site.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Get to know "Tom" -- the groups that have developed partnerships with MyFace, YouTube, Change.org, etc get preferential treatment and promotion, which smacks a bit of the good ol fashioned broadcast model that can increase the chances of things going "viral" within the social networking site.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

And you definitely aren't setting foot in Second Life. Your design can have multiple floors, and you can model outdoor areas as well. You can even print out your design as a 3D model if you want a paperweight version of your future museum. You can display the dimensions of any element and resize elements quickly.

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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." I was a good community manager, but the system we set up to perform that management and cultivate the community was ill-considered.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

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. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election.

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