Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I recently attention a press briefing for the MacArthur Foundation in Second Life on digital learning and media. via Nancy White I found a pointer to Linda Stone's Wiki on Continuous Partial Attention. Most of what is in there is the material from the corporate or business perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

But wait a second, I could attempt to live blog remotely. because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater). The John D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

and other technologies such as Second Life follows a well established pattern identified by Gartner analysts called " hype cycles " The description is below and this visual showing the hype cycle for consumer technologies. Consequently, the press usually abandons the topic and the technology.

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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

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. I think you would be very hard pressed today to find anyone still using a DOS version of Word Perfect. avies' to stand around and chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Head right over to the Social Media Press Release Template from Shift Communications and reviewed by the Getting Attention Blog. Second Life and Other Games Nedra Weinreich shares her experience attending the CDC's Second Life experience with an interview the U.S. Looking for a way to integrate all these Web2.0

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AUGUST 28, 2008

wakot of everyday sustainable suggested I contact Karen Henke of Nimble Press for ideas. amoration of AMO: The Root of Love also suggested Moodle, and Sloodle which integrates Moodle and the virtual world of Second Life. She also said I should check out the work of @ leighBlackall at Otago Polytechnic. Pretty cool, huh?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! " (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and PR/Marketing An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press) Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. See this one-page parody of Second Life. " Web 2.0, Need a chuckle?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Official press release here. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life. Blackbaud, Inc. Nonprofit Times covers it here. Commentary from Michelle Murrain Allan Benamer.

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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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MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. But that's just a start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. , but I think it is probably more useful to think of the ???young young people??? as early adopters rather than the phenomenon being linked to youth."

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JUNE 11, 2008

”, where [A] is any cool (or in the case of ‘Second Life’ seriously uncool) new online tool. 3) Be you, not me Things not to do: don’t put a press release on your facebook page or worse: your company blog. And then you’ll probably fail some more. Don’t give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate. Jenny is about to pilot a 12 Week Training Program. The program introduces how to use the technology, but also social skills. Do you moderate comments or not?

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AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

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. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream. We eliminated the t-shirts too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Second Life KnowProse blog publishes a press release about their new office in Second Life. Perhaps there will be more nonprofit setting up offices on Second Life with the Nonprofit Commons project being discussed in TechSoup's Virtual Office Space.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

They also suggest: make it personal, using your real voice; don’t reprint press releases or other web stories; be concise (advice I am not following here ). On Second Life : Tim and Carie both say stay away. Funny, another negative note on Second Life.

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