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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. The first level is the second life literacy skills - how you move around and communicate. Personally I think I???ve I met with the group last week.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. topics of corporate and/or personal interest. Google Alerts – remember that they aren’t always accurate or enough to find everything. Communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Gamers also gather in person for gaming marathons and conferences to raise money for charity. There will be multiple realities in the metaverse, such as Second Life (founded in 2003), and there is currently a global race to build the metaverse. The Metaverse. AI & Machine Learning.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In fact, Mayo Clinic's mission to "inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education and research" is echoed by providing facilities and services in Second Life. When did Mayo Clinic's involvement in Second Life start?

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2009

The Health Panel Expo planning is coming together and the event is right around the corner! Here are the details! PRESS RELEASE. Tools Web Building.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The particular issue that concerns Hiroshi right now is the Second Life problem, 3D avatar immersive environments. To some disability groups, Second Life is wonderful. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now.

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Museum 2.0

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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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nonprofit storytelling refers to narratives an organization shares (often called “impact stories”) as a way to illustrate its mission and connect with supporters on a personal, emotional level. Double-check that the story doesn’t share personal information or other details that could put the story subject in danger. " 10.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

TechSoup serves numerous nonprofits, and answering the many technology-related questions posted to the forums is a task best handled by more than one person. Panganiban spoke of his work in the Nonprofit Commons on Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

The gist of the idea is that people adopt social tools, initially, for some highly personal reasons, but stick with them for the social connectedness that they gain from them. " Stow Boyd goes on to observe that most "enlightened" corporate management supports personal development. Of Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Eric Leland is the first person to introduce themselves! Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign. Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." " And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. With our 65-inch plasma screen TV, we camped outside the main ballroom and projected the #NCVS tweets along with Second Life and web interactive experiences for attendees.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

David and Randy (I've presented with them several times, hugged them, had beers with them, I've even hung out in our Nonprofit Commons in Second Life virtual island with them, so yes, we are on a first name basis) reminded me that innovation doesn't just happen.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Can't make the event in person? Participate virtually at the Aloft Nonprofit Commons Drive-In Theater in Second Life. Watch a step-by-step guide for how to participate in Second Life.). This is the time to network! Participate Virtually. Here are other ways you can take part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. Want to get started in Second Life, check out. Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice. blog thought it was cool too.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Light refreshments will be provided (for those who join us in-person). >> WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life. We look forward to seeing the virtual attendees on the livstream party -- and can't wait to see those who can make it in-person on the red carpet!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. I personally love how it presents the opportunity to be involved in a community, sometimes in a real-time format, from a distance. 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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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2008

Our conversation focused on Facebook, Second Life, and Skype. This includes both developing techniques to pierce the Facebook's security, and active communication with persons of interest. The same with Second Life. The Agency is deeply involved in Facebook," I was told.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. And we would love to meet you in person. So join us in person! Please be sure to connect with us in the following venues: Facebook. LinkedIn Group. TechSoup Blog. SlideShare. Del.icio.us. Flavors.me. Plus we provide fun snacks and beverages. You can't break bread on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

Light refreshments will be provided (for those who join us in-person). Pacific time WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life TAG: #TSDIGS. RSVP on Meetup or Facebook !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I was attempting to summarize a three-way dialogue about Second Life from three brilliant thinkers with differing views about the value of SL. We also must remember that there is no such thing as second hand learning -- second life learning is first person learning. Henry Jenkins [link]. Clay Shirky [link].

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2007

Back in December after Clay Shirky's piece on Second Life, Stan who writes the PacificRim Exchange Blog took out his " I'm Sticking With DOS " buttons from the attic to make some points -- maybe something about keeping an eye on the future horizon. If I were a development person, I???d

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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. Second Law: Behind every avatar is a real person Third Law: Be relevant and add value. Check out the Nonprofits and Second Life Wiki and Blog for information about the nonprofit side. enterprises) will have a ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. And overheard at the TechSoup Second Life meeting this week. Ruby Sinreich mentions that a RootsCamp will take place in Seoncd Life. More information here.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Advanced software, technology tools, and innovative methods are being used to enhance training program’s quality, participation and engagement as well as to enable corporate training to be a more personalized experience. Companies are exploring online virtual platforms such as second life, Minecraft, Unity, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. To me, SL has the potential to replace all of those social networks with personal 3D spaces, all linked via a pseudo-metaverse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

Giving Anonymously facilitates person to person philanthropy. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2006

I'm so sad not to be able to participate live and in person at the Global s Summit this year which is taking place in Dehli. People were also meeting up in Second Life at the Creative Commons sim. In the world, you could see a streaming video of the party in real life. Photo from Nehavish. Dina Mehta was the irc steward.

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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. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. All 500,000 petitions will be delivered in person to the president, encouraging the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. She is the first to contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. Over the summer, I had an opportunity to meet her in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

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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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

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. We wish best of luck to all our digital storytellers and hope you will join us on March 28!

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

His topic is online marriage rituals in Second Life. ” For Jason, his motivation for the work is largely personal, though. Clare Kerr – Another great person in the digital fundraising space. He teamed up with Jason Samuels to set up all of the collaborative note-taking at the latest NTC conference.

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