Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2010

Learn more about TechSoup's product donation program and how to get started with this free webinar. Get Started with TechSoup's Product Donation Program Thursday, June 10, 11 a.m. 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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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges and the community, will receive products from award donor partners Cisco, Adobe, Flickr Citrix, Sliderocket, Blazon, SurveyMonkey, and more. WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life. This is a “red carpet” event! Pacific time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

It also hosts the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life , supports micro-volunteering efforts , and curates resources like the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Tell us what you think of the new wiki in the comments!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges and the community, will receive products from our award donor partners Cisco, Adobe, Flickr Citrix, Sliderocket, Blazon, SurveyMonkey, and more. Pacific time WHERE: San Francisco – TechSoup Headquarters; Online – Live-stream on Facebook and in Second Life TAG: #TSDIGS.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

ReadyTalk — This standard for webinar production offers integrated slides, screensharing, live moderated chat, and high-quality recorded audio. UStream Producer — This cloud and mobile application allows you to produce professional quality live streaming events with many inputs at your next live event.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

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. TechSoup Presentation Products.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

Prizes include Flip videos cameras, Pro Accounts for Flickr and Sliderocket, Adobe Creative Suite products, Seagate portable hard drives and GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC. An effective digital story doesn’t necessarily require the best production – the call to action and how inspired you are to take up that call should matter more.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Productions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bringing people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. Citrix Online products including GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar. where blog recaps and upcoming events can be found. Additional Resources. Wikispaces.

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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. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. avies' to stand around and chat. way to the future?

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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. Several recent posts have looked at productivity issues.

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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. The technology becomes increasingly stable and evolves in second and third generations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated. Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. without leaving the virtual world!

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

TechSoup’s Communicate and Collaborate product offerings. There are many other software and web-hosted conferencing services available, plus programs like Second Life , where nonprofit activists meet regularly in places like TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons. Video Conferencing Apps: Take Virtual Meetings on the Road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Their work products, process, and learning will also be assessed using these rubrics. What struck me was the code of ethics for Virtual Worlds: Virtual Worlds Act in second life like you would in your first life. The geeks out there will appreciate the array of Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. Hope is that game will give attention to ways of domestic food production, immigration, explotation. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers. We identified four finalists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

This is post is a response to Ken Newsome's post about newest flap about Facebook costing corporations millions in lost productivity (see /Message: Facebook Is Bankrupting Our Business! Only later did it become obvious that networked connection was a productivity enhancer, and companies now accept it as routine. Of Second Life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months. 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. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Museum 2.0

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. with a few significant differences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 3D space where this virtual symposium will take place is a private version of the Second Life platform that Linden Labs and NMC have created, called the Hakone Project. This is already happening to some nonprofits as a by-product of their participation on social networks and using simplicity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

and makes a gazillion dollars on some new product ad, I might be sorry when all I get is a credit. who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! s simple, direct, and says, ???use use it, just give me credit and/or a link.??? Okay, so when X-Mart grabs my photo of Alien Faces in Juniper Berries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. distracting, productivity drain ? The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. There's also dogooder.tv He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Told story about doing a workshop and someone said the product didn't work. How did the transaction go - not the final service or product. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. Networked For Good - Have shifted from just providing services. No one clicks on the button.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

is not in product development but in product management, maintenance, and growth. Some museums are starting to reflect this in their hiring, adding "community management" to job descriptions that formerly were just about content production or distribution. The time cost of Web 2.0 This pretty much requires dedicated staff.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. These products are entirely virtual and are distributed virtually, so the time from launch to editorial review is instantaneous. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the constant question, "If your first life is good, why do you need a Second Life?"

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

He has 20 years of management, public relations and media-development experience, including the production of TV and radio commercials and award-winning rich media websites. That said, you can still have decent production quality without spending an arm and a leg. How much should they be willing to spend on a good video?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Charlene and Josh relate listening to research, and since they focus on business examples, they are primarily talking about market research: the way a business learns what people think of their brand, their products, and their potential. We don't have to go out and find the people drinking or wearing our products.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I learned about game design, theme park design, video production, script-writing, show programming, and air compressors, working with cranks and fire marshals and brilliant folks of all kinds.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on. For now I’m having fun learning the ropes and hope to hold off on sending out an RFP for a MySpace campaign for as long as I can.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This means that (Product) Red significantly brought up the average with 632,962 friends, making up the difference for some of the profiles with less than a hundred. Looking at the number of friends can tell you how much promotion a nonprofit has done for its profile.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

This means that (Product) Red significantly brought up the average with 632,962 friends, making up the difference for some of the profiles with less than a hundred. Looking at the number of friends can tell you how much promotion a nonprofit has done for its profile.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

The event took place on forums, webinars, Tweetchat, Second Life, flickr and YouTube. We will start out with a panel of nonprofit technology and vendor product experts and then break out into smaller groups to discuss best practices and real-world solutions. We’ll use the TSdigs event in October 2009 as a case study.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

And yet I'd argue that museums are in a very special position as "product manufacturers" because staff always have direct access to their consumers. And if museums are indeed products for visitor/consumers, then that access is the most precious marketing, research, and development resource we have.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

I was reminded of this pleasure last night, when I came home to a group of Second Life builders working in our living room. They were working on a build collaboratively, with one person's computer hooked up to a digital projector, so Second Life was about 4x6 ft on our wall. We were there when it was built.

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