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October Community Builder Chat – Connecting On and Offline Communities #commbuild

Amy Sample Ward

Today’s Community Builder chat focused on examples and best practices for connecting on and offline community activities, events, and organizing. 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. Recap: October.

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Second Life: Debunking Myths, Identifying Opportunities - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. (IDI)

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Great Presentations

Tech Soup

Rik Panganiban, community manager of TechSoup’s Nonprofits in Second Life online community, rounded out the lineup of speakers by offering tips gleaned from his experience giving presentations in mixed reality environments – advice that can also be used in the offline world. Presentations for Webinars.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc. Offline storage and data management can take place, even when the user is not connected to the Internet. for delivering training and are creating similar virtual environments to bring the human touch into their e-learning environment.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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More on Burma - Protests in Real Life and Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The post gives us a screen capture from Google Trends , but it doesn't mention what has been happening in Second Life - for example virtual red t-shirts , and human chain protests ). The red t-shirt show your support meme didn't originate online - it started offline in countries from that region showing support.

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Change Status: Facebooking and Twittering for a better world

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find her Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, Second Life and many other online communities. And, she accomplishes so much offline too! 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 if you???re

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