AFP Blog

AUGUST 22, 2005

27 and 28, the American Cancer Society will hold its first Relay for Life in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Pledges will be made in Second Life's virtual currency, though they will be converted to dollars before being passed along to the cancer society.".

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. Second Life is an online, virtual world where you can customize your online personality (i.e. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

At the same time, there was a wild and crazy 4th Birthday Party going for Creative Commons in multiple real world locations , Warsaw, Beijing, Amsterdam, Turin, Copenhagen, Lisbon, New York City and headquarters in SF. People were also meeting up in Second Life at the Creative Commons sim.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. 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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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

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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 4, 2007

There's a New York Times article today about the virtual CSI:NY experience that will be launching in Second Life on October 24. For all those who wonder whether Second Life can be used for a mainstream, mass audience experience, the virtual CSI:NY experience will be a great test. Stay tuned for more.

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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

MARCH 28, 2008

When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her. It's just plain courteous, and if we trust our visitors the way we trust clients or friends, we should make this available. Make content authorship transparent.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The earliest and best examples of this are found in the New York Times and NPR. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. But of course mapping has gone public. Games – Perhaps the elections are enough of a virtual game that we don't generate more on-line election games.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2012

The Online Leadership Program has been working with youth in New York City to design video games for 10 years now. " The Playing 4 Peace Challenge. This time around, they've partnered with Gamestar Mechanic and AMD to bring together the Playing 4 Peace Challenge.

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