Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Big Picture Thinkers. Allison Fine , author of the book Momentum, writes about social activism in the nonprofit sector and the implications on the ground and at the big picture level. Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger. Lucy Bernholz.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. December 17, 2007 | Meghan Request permission to use your beautiful snowflakes picture in a course Im teaching. Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Sure, you wanted to be ahead of the game, but you got tied up rockin out on Monkey Island in Second Life. December 17, 2007 | Meghan Request permission to use your beautiful snowflakes picture in a course Im teaching. Now, you need a surefire strategy to get you those key last minute donations.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes. I know that Second Life can be a clunky, frustrating experience.

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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? It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

MacArthur Foundation announces a Virtual Philanthropy event in Second Life next week. What caption would you add to this picture ? Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

By letting other nonprofits use your words, pictures, music, innovations, and processes, you are creating resources to help those most in need! Google, Flickr, Second Life and literally thousands of new companies depend on engaging users to make money, and the more people who engage with their content, the more money they make.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. The man will come running up to your desk screaming “I just saw a demonstration of [A] and we need to start using this in our campaigns!”, Companies don’t make friends.

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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. but I left wondering more about the bigger picture of professional associations and their use and value. They are trying to find better ways to provide value to their members, so that they can a. attract and retain members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Those went okay, we always get a solid core of photographers tagging and posting pictures to flickr. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

And what is the optimum combination of videos, pictures, text, friends, and other widgets? The groups that take advantage of the buzz around social networks and new phenomena such as Second Life are really benefitting from the splash made through a creative use of the technology and a multi-channel approach to marketing.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2007

I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share this hilarious spoof of Second Life with you. Today, in keeping with the above, real-life games that motivate social collaboration. When you receive a page from someone, you draw a picture in the second segment that conveys the sentence above as well as possible.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election. Draw a picture of your ideal users: where they live, what they do, how old they are, what language they speak, what kind of house they live in, what is their work, gender, orientation? It's all about the people.

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