Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Just got word from Lori Bell about the grand opening for Information Island. The Alliance Library System and the Second Life Library/Info Island collaborative group of librarians are pleased to announce the grand opening and a host of activities planned for Second Life residents scheduled October 12-14, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. PT/SLT, in their new locations at the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Generously donated by the world???s Audio and video content will be streamed live between the two worlds.

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APRIL 21, 2009

This was originally posted on the Nonprofit Commons: Nonprofits in Second Life Blog. Join in the official launch of the EcoCommons in Second Life! Our grand opening celebration will be happening Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 11 a.m. Pacific , on the new EcoCommons island in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

to be open to the public as well as the the first Harvard course to be offered. as an Extension/Distance education through virtual world Second Life. live interactive sessions with remote students in Second Life. "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," will be the first Harvard course. The course.

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JULY 26, 2007

This month's Net Tuesday will be a special "mixed reality" event in San Francisco and in Second Life to celebrate the opening of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , a community space for nonprofits. I am a total Second Life newbie. I found this Second Life Basic Help page today which might help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

Blogger Wagner James Au who reports on Second Life is seated next to Susan.) The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden. But can games like Second Life be a useful tool for social change? So, my avitar joined the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Virtual Support Group in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. But first, skim through the discussion forum on TechSoup , especially if you're new to Second Life. Second Life crashed - and we were all frozen and booted off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 4, 2007

Interesting eventhough not a nonprofit.Swedes open embassy in Second Life - CNN.com: "STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) -- Sweden became the first country on Wednesday to open an embassy in the virtual world Second Life.Created to promote the Nordic state's image and culture, the embassy does not offer any real or virtual consular services but provides information (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Here's the email announcement from Alan Levine: The NMConnect Visual Symposium will be the largest collaborative art event ever created in Second Life! The schedule is still developing, but there is a call for Second Life Artists that will be open form now until the end of January.

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JULY 18, 2007

When people talk about museum projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, I'm often disappointed by the short-sightedness of the vision. Sadly, Robbie's goal was to use Second Life as a platform to create a 2D representation of the painting--so the 3D space of the painting is not available for visitors to explore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. What is transferable?

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MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life. Key to her approach is keeping open clear lines of communication, having regular check-ins, and holding team members accountable. Heyning’s work is most familiar to anyone who has watched Nonprofits Live or participated in a TechSoup tweet chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Convio or Causes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2007

That's from tonight's opening launch party of the Nonprofits Commons in Second Life, TechSoup's project in Second Life. I am bringing a couple of Second Life t-shirts to Cambodia, thanks to Jeska Linden. Ruby Sinreich did an excellent job of live blogging. More about the project here.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

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. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. We’re leading up to it providing webinars and chats, but will be hosting an awards mixed reality event in February.

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This is especially true when your subject has opened up to you about a traumatic moment in their life. But it can get a second life with a short version condensed to fit into a series of photos or a 60-second Instagram Reel. Maybe the first version of the story is a long-form written narrative.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

This past Wednesday (October 24), CBS aired an episode of CSI: NY in which a killer uses Second Life to attract and hunt down her victims. The episode was a cliff-hanger, and viewers were invited to log on to a special CSI:NY-themed island in Second Life to continue the hunt for the murderer.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

TechSoup's donation programs are open to eligible nonprofits and public libraries. You can discuss this webinar on Twitter with the hashtag #techsoup or join us for a live-stream of the event in Second Life.

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MARCH 30, 2010

This post originally appeared on the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life blog and was penned by DustyArtuad. NPC is happy to share that TechSoup Global won the open-vote portion of the Justmeans/Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With Here's a growing list.

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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. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it.

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MAY 27, 2011

Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. Streaming — Beyond Quicktime Broadcaster for video streaming, the TechSoup team also uses Audio Hijack and Nicecast to pull audio from ReadyTalk webinars onto the web and into Second Life for global participation.

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JULY 23, 2007

Opening Gala at NPC on 8/14 - In Kenzo in AMO: "San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will host a grand opening celebration Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 5:30 p.m. in their new locations at the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

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 ! OK, no, I’m still not convinced, but here’s an interesting take on Second Life from Frogloop. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2007

second life, ??? but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc. Understand the implications for access to open virtual platforms from within the enterprise and the risks involved,??? Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

You could also watch a video cast on the web as well as in Second Life. So, I attended via Second Life where Rebecca Nesson was the in-world moderator and she was also at the real life event. The session opened with a question on whether students should be allowed to use laptops in the class to take notes or not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

And picking up on the Second Life media blitz a couple of years ago, NBC did a story on religion in Second Life.(BTW, BTW, if you haven't seen this " Guided Tour of Spirituality in Second Life " its worth a looksee).

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APRIL 23, 2009

Nonprofit Commons is opening a new island. EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. GreenTech's TeleGreen Your Work campaign is underway. Sage is giving away fundraising software. We're all excited for NTC. It's been a big week in the TechSoup universe. It's time to vote! Who made the biggest impact? TechSoup Blog.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2008

Pixelanthropy takes hold in Second Life! via the AFP Blog summarizes this news story from msnbc about nonprofits in Second Life inspired by Kiva in Second Life's Grand Opening Party at the Nonprofit Commons. Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Pick a platform that provides adequate services and start a community, pushing for interoperability and openness. Legal and Mgmt : open source?; Example virtual worlds: Second Life; Active Worlds; Entropia; Olive. Try to force interoperability standards or wait for them to be developed. IP (who owns created objects?);

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

Voting is open March 6 - 11 so we encourage you to start watching and cast your vote. If you can’t join the awards ceremony in person, you can always join via live web streaming or in Second Life. TSDigs winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony in San Francisco (and live-streamed online) on March 28.

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